Who Hunts Reg Seasons With Their Muzzleloader?

[hunter thompson]

IAM YUP ive shot all that i want in life with reg rifles. NOWS the time to wander around with a flintlock HOPING NOT to see one ,just to get out without the work after.Always after the BIG horns but now ill take a ole grey face doe if it doesnt have any lambs.

 

[Dale Lilly]

I have for the last few seasons, but won’t this year. Got a new gun I want to try out, so the ML will be used in ML season only this year. Well, maybe…possibly.

Naaaaaaaaah!

 

[longcruise]

I've done it many times. There were times when I only owned a muzzleloader. I am rather over equipped with suppository guns at this time but later in this year I'll have two deer and an elk tag and will use a ml for at least two. One deer tag is for wide open country so I'll probably use a modern one for that. Meat is the goal so....

I get funny looks at my gun during the rifle seasons. I've never encountered another hunter with a sidelock during a modern rifle season. It gets more and more that it's about 85% inlines encountered during ml season.

Funny, during regular rifle season inlines with scopes, sabots, pellet powder, etc, are allowed but never see any.

 

[Splitear]

I have been hunting rifle season with my muzzleloader for several seasons now.

 

[Buff1958]

For 50 years I hunted all seasons and anywhere I went in the world with a recurve. Age finally caught up with me a couple of years ago and my back and shoulders won’t let me shoot a recurve well enough to hunt with. I always played with my muzzle loaders and now do all my hunting with them. Just built my first flint lock this year and killed a few hogs with them before it got too hot to hunt. As of now….. I head to Alberta Tuesday with my .62 flintlock, then return to Texas and head to a friends ranch in west texas and then up to Oklahoma for the last week of their muzzleloader season.

 

[Jaeger]

I do.

 

[Skychief]

I do

 

[Absoroka]

Hunted the wilderness country with my .58 for bear in Wyoming. Didn't see any other bear hunters the whole time.

 

[Big Tom 52]

I started using my 45-caliber muzzle loading rifle a couple years ago and haven't picked up a modern gun since. I up graded to a 50 caliber this year.

 

[RobertIN]

I'm planning on it.

 

[Dutch7]

Flintlock only for deer and turkey since 1987. I have other guns but they never see sunlight

 

[Chmachin]

I do.

 

[Spikebuck]

I have never hunted with a suppository rifle. I did hunt once with my Dad's .44 mag Super Redhawk during the firearms deer season. Otherwise, I hunted exclusively with bow until 2000 when I added traditional muzzleloading. 50+ years and haven't needed a modern rifle. Nothing against them, just never had any interest in them.

 

[FishnRod]

I carry my 54cal GPR on a regular basis. Had a guy pull me aside one day and say, he had a 30-30 at home if I wanted to use a real gun.

 

[brazosland]

I carry my 54cal GPR on a regular basis. Had a guy pull me aside one day and say, he had a 30-30 at home if I wanted to use a real gun.

Did you offer to give him 10 seconds to run before you started shooting with your fake gun?

 

[bud in pa]

Count me in.

 

[Machino]

I’m committed to longbows and flintlocks now. It just feels right and still feeding the family

 

[Medicine Bow]

I just got home a couple hours ago from my very first day ever hunting with a muzzleloader. The majority of my hunting has been with a bow. This year I decided to give the muzzleloader a try. Good thing since I injured my shoulder in July.

 

[Nobody85]

I do all my hunting with either my 16 bore fowler, or 50. Where I live, there’s no reason to use modern weapons as it’s impossible to see more than 100 yards in any direction. I’ve been packing the freezer for years that way and have never felt disadvantaged in any way. I have plenty of modern weapons and don’t hold it against someone who uses them to take game. I just prefer they way our ancestors got things done.

 

[smokepolehall]

I may not be an period correct person, but i don't own a CF to my name. I hunt all seasons allowed with my ML's.