What is your main use for your muzzle loaders?

[Txlongshot58]

Hunting and target shooting

 

[wiksmo]

Particularly can relate to your comment, Black Jack. So I'm glad to do similarly as you and the others do.

My BP pistol is new-out-of-box, and not shot yet. But I can easily describe it with eyes closed after having looked and handled it often. The main difference is that I sit in my wood rocking chair while enjoying this activity and learning about the pistol.

After I shoot it, the main use will most certainly change. Several MLF members have said how much I will enjoy shooting BP. Trusting they are absolutely spot on. Hoping to get to my LGS this next week for shooting supplies and needed tools in order to get out of the rocking chair.

I sit on the couch and fondle them, smell them, and view them from different angles. Sometimes I load them.

I am much like you. I am glad to see that I am not the only one. I thought I had issues.

.... I too like to sit in front of the open fire and hand rub linseed into the stocks.

Actually one of the recommendations to become a better shot is to do what you mention, a person needs to become familiar with their M/L.

 

[8 BORE]

SOME PEOPLE NEED TO GET A LIFE

 

[hanshi]

SOME PEOPLE NEED TO GET A LIFE

NAH! Take my word for it, they are overrated.

 

[Tb54]

I got my cva .54 back in the ‘90’s. Growing up towards the end of the Cold War, I thought that way, and got it as my “bug out” rifle, before “bugging out” was cool. I figured it would be a good sub sonic option. In the early 2000’s when the kids were small, and the ML season for deer was either sex, I was after the tender meat of does. Lately, I picked it up again because it extends my season a couple weeks in December. I guess for me it’s a meat gathering tool, but I do enjoy carrying it in the woods, making that first shot count.

 

[Newtire]

I use them mostly for plinking and target shooting. The 2X barrelled cap lock in my avatar photo is used for clay shooting and hunting if the opportunity presents itself.

 

[Kestrel]

Mine are my drug of choice. When I manage to carve out an hour or two from my chaotic life to go shoot, I feel my blood pressure lessen, my stress level lower and a calming of my soul. Taking hold of those beautiful guns and going through the process to load, settle in and make the shot is BEYOND therapeutic. There is nothing else going on in the world at that moment that I care about. I am completely present in the moment.
I have always been a shooter (age 5) but it wasn't until I discovered BP that my life changed. It has brought the comraderie of friends. A deeper understanding of the history of the men who forged our country. And on those all too rare occasions now, it has given me the ability to create "my happy place".

 

[Grenadier1758]

Ah, another call for the writing of the book, "Zen and the Art of Muzzleloading".

Many of us know the inner peace and relaxation that comes from practicing the art of shooting muzzle loading fire arms.

 

[XVIIc Wheelock]

Smelling burnt black powder.....

 

[Eutycus]

Heck , one has to "fondle" something when they are allergic to 4 legged pets. Wiping down a rifle is bound to be as therapeutic as petting your dog.

 

[hanshi]

Heck , one has to "fondle" something when they are allergic to 4 legged pets. Wiping down a rifle is bound to be as therapeutic as petting your dog.

Hmmmm...You might have something there. It does certainly make me feel better.

 

[Tralfaz67]

Mine serve three uses.
1. To startle my fellow shooters with a loud, distinctive BOOM.
2. To gift my fellow shooters with a challenging haze through which to find their mark.
3. To make any day of the year smell like The 4th of July.

 

[Carbon 6]

Many of us know the inner peace and relaxation that comes from practicing the art of shooting muzzle loading fire arms.

Yes I do!
That is a fantastic description. :thumbs up:

 

[Boomerang]

needed tools in order to get out of the rocking chair.

Wow! You must have been in that chair for a while if you need tools to get out of it.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I guess mine gather more dust in the gun safe than doing anything else. Older age, health issues, loss of prime hunting land and some lack of interest has lessened my involvement. Like has been said; I do like to take one of them out every now and then and give it a good going over with an oily rag inside and out and fondle it a bit thinking somewhat in awe that I actually built the thing and did a pretty good job. I have another one on the the bench but only work on it sporadically, it will be my last.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

The main use for my muzzleloaders is to punch a large lead round ball through the shoulder of a big game animal, thereby causing it's imminent death, allowing me to divide it up into family sized portions and store it in my freezer for later consumption. The other use for them is to have fun shooting, and show others how the "old-timers" used to shoot rifles, especially my friends and people at the gun range.