What is your favorite game hunted using muzzleloaders?

[NorthFork]

Deer, then turkey, then upland game, then waterfowl.

 

[Feltwad]

Used to be elk and deer, now my favorite is Geese. Lifelong waterfowl hunter and moving to muzzleloading put a lot of the fun and enjoyment back into it for me. Don't know why I didn't do it years earlier, as I have been muzzleload hunting deer etc for a long time

Yes it is a great sport what do you use a 10 bore or smaller are you a proper fowler on the fore shore or lakes or do you prefer flight or shooting over barley stubbles .
Feltwad

 

[deermanok]

Deer but want to try hogs

 

[Boomerang]

Squirrel is my favorite, but I would like to get a bear sometime.

 

[Treestalker]

Still looking for the Fouke monster, rumor says migrated up this way from around Fouke, Arkansas. Might not be legal to shoot him though, he's thought to be humanoid, like the elusive 'Squatch. Que lastima!

 

[tenngun]

Squirrels. Just fun. I don’t shoot the flying, and have never hunted hog. Elk deer antalope and turkey are lots of fun. But no forethought is needed to go after tree rats. Just pick up and go, and rarely get skunked.

 

[bradly_tx]

Still looking for the Fouke monster, rumor says migrated up this way from around Fouke, Arkansas. Might not be legal to shoot him though, he's thought to be humanoid, like the elusive 'Squatch. Que lastima!

He’s been known to hangout in the deep woods of East Texas

 

[Einsiedler]

Pigs.

 

[Henry Miles]

There's nothing like waiting for the smoke to clear and begin to search for a deer that has been smoked!

 

[Okie Hog]

Hogs:

 

[TNGhost]

Yes it is a great sport what do you use a 10 bore or smaller are you a proper fowler on the fore shore or lakes or do you prefer flight or shooting over barley stubbles .
Feltwad

A bit of both actually, some ducks over decoys along the shore and the occasional river float, but by far mostly Canada Geese in "stubble". Not barley though, but potatoes are their biggest attractant here.

About the only "flight" (pass?) shooting I do is when a flock of geese passes over the residence in the evening and gets careless, or a flock of ducks does the same coming into the beaver pond below the house, in the woods. I don't really make a habit of it though and it is more of a chance thing, being surrounded by agricultural fields, with a bit of woods and a swamp down back. I generally just enjoy watching them winging in in the evening.

I use a 12 bore percussion SxS, and bismuth shot, due to our regs on lead, but have been on the lookout for a 10 bore. Hope fully one of these days I'll run across one at the right time.

Been at it for many years as I said, and hunted the central flyway from origins of the Mississippi, to the delta country, having lived in both Minnesota and Louisiana. Now I am in the Northeast and the Canadas are king here locally, and outnumber all other waterfowl by a wide margin.

As I said, picking up muzzleloading for waterfowl the last few years has renewed my interest and made it "fun" again, but it truly is a great sport.

 

[Art Caputo]

Whitetails!!!

 

[pab1]

As much as I enjoy deer and elk hunting, I find I'm enjoying small game hunting more these days. Between snowshoe hares, cottontails and grouse I would have a hard time picking a favorite. If I were forced to pick only one it would probably be snowshoe hare.

For small game I prefer to use a .54 or .58 with a prb and reduced powder charge. I have a couple .32s but prefer the big bore guns. I've been playing with light charges and a prb in my smoothbore .62 Renegade flintlock and plan to use it this fall.

 

[Eterry]

As a teen anything that was in the woods was fair game, now its Deer, dove, Turkey, Hog squirrel and rabbit, not necessary in that order.

 

[Brokennock]

Probably squirrels and or spring turkey with either of my 20 gauge smoothbores, smooth rifle or Tule FdC.

It would be whitetail deer if our muzzleloader deer season wasn't in late December when the weather is rotten and the deer have been pushed and pressured for a few months of archery and shotgun seasons.

 

[Ruben44]

Elk is mine

 

[FiremanBrad]

There’s just something about killing turkeys with a flintlock Smoothbore that I just can’t get enough of!!!

 

[Heelerau]

Rabbits and kangaroos.

 

[oldwood]

Deer...groundhogs , squirrels , bear , whatever fits into the pressure cooker.

 

[Ricochet]

Squirrel. Usually lots of action and shooting!