Your muzzleloader activity in 2006 ??

[roundball]

Sold off more of those new fangled centerfires and:

Got a GM .62cal Flint smoothbore barrel, had it jug choked for Turkey;

Got a GM .62cal Flint smoothbore barrel for round balls, am having it rifled at Ed Rayl's shop now;

Coordinated two large volume bulk Flint buys at cost for fellow muzzleloading enthusiasts;

Had 47 range sessions / 2,220 shots;

Filled all my deer tags + shot 1 sapling / 7 shots;

Got a .40cal Flintlock rifle put together with a presentation grade Hawken stock and GM Flint barrel;

So I was lucky...had an outstanding 2006...going to kick off 2007 by taking the .40cal flintlock for a walk in the woods today...
:thumbsup:

 

[Mike Brooks]

I'm guessing I built 16 to 18 guns and never fired a shot.
Got my Virginia kit up and running and my "type G" kit is ssslllowwwlllyyy coming along.
2006 was OK, and I have even higher expectations for 2007! :thumbsup:

 

[Birddog6]

I built 4 rifles & have 2 more in the white & another one about 1/2 done. I think I could double that but work keeps getting in the way of my hobby !! :haha:

Mike,

I think if you would work all night on them, you could turn out one a week ! ha ha ha ! I don't know how you build them so fast ! :thumbsup:

 

[bigbadben]

I made the jump from modern to traditional. Guess that's my big news. A few years back I bought a TC Black Diamond just so I could have something to hunt the MZ season with. The funny thing is that I could never get it to shoot well. I know that's odd because those guns are supposed to be accurate. But with most loads it would literally shoot 8"+ groups at 50 yards. I finally found that 110gr loads with those pellets pushing a Barnes 240gr saboted X bullet would shoot about four inches at 75 yards. I figured that was good enough to shoot a deer. But it never made me all that enthusiastic about the gun.

So this fall I succumbed to the allure of primitive weapons and bought a Lyman GPR 54/flint. Funny thing is that this "primitive" gun will shoot under 2"groups at fifty yards. So it shoots several times better than the modern.

And any flintlock has a much higher coolness factor than a synthetic stocked in-line. It just does.

Having been bit with the bug I went out and got a 12ga side-by-side percussion. Haven't shot that as much, but am having fun when I do.

Ben

 

[wszumera]

You need to take some time out from work and shoot.

Clutch

 

[playfarmers]

I sold off 2 centre fire rifles and one flinter, and just ordered a .54 Trade rifle in percussion. We only hunted with muzzleloaders this year and filled all tags. I plan on getting out a bunch more this year. Looks like a good year to me.

 

[k.jacobfrost]

I got the bp bug early in the spring, and have been researching and working on building two wheellock pistols. It has been vary slow going largely due to the lack of tools needed :cursing: , and partially due to school and remodeling a house built in 1959.

And I have still yet to fire anything bp. I have a feeling that I got bit hard by this bp bug.

Frost

 

[2172]

Didn't get to shoot much at all...did invite my 47 year old, Liberal, college professor daughter to join me in a Woodswalk, and she enjoyed it enough to post a target on her office door...and to put a small supply of .50rb's in a dish on her desk so she could explain the target...she tells me that at lesst 3 other professors want to try ML....I'm enrolling her in our club and the NMLRA, and making her a powder horn...Hank

 

[Joel Boyles]

Bought my first ML firearm of any kind, a Dixie TMR flinter in left-hand persuasion. Working on my second pound of powder already. Way more fun than normal people should be allowed to have!

 

[roundball]

Mike,
I think if you would work all night on them, you could turn out one a week ! ha ha ha ! I don't know how you build them so fast ! :thumbsup:

He has a secret mass production factory out behind his house...knew S&W would be buying out TC so he's been gearing up... :grin:

 

[bwhoffman]

Activlystarted shoting in jan 06, since oct o6, have amassed 2 .50 cap locks, 2 fine pistols in .50, 1 .41sb deringer(dont know why) and stumbled into a missing parts TC hawken kit that I put a new barrel on in.40.
I didnt just get bit, I fell on the whole dang hive!
get to shoot every month formally and the local rondy's. Shoot at home anytime I want, have made some neat face to face friends from contacts thru this forum. been making ALL my own stuff with exception to caps and powder.
being a former accuracy CF freak, I have become somewhat humbled, but the .40 has more than made up for that!
goal for this year will be a bp shotgun and get my forge going again.
sold some unused CF's to purchase some stuff and now will work on liquidating all my trapshooting guns, reloaders and supplies from that period of my life!
Obsessive as it is, THIS forum has been a great friend and teacher!

Brett

 

[bramble]

Well,
Both of my daughters left home, taking with them their centerfire deer rifles, so I was faced with getting a rifle before the season. I pulled out a TC Hawkin .50 kit given to me years ago by my in-laws, finding that without kids at home I had enough time to put it together.
Found MLF, tuned her up, and was able to get 3 deer with three shots.
Discovered that when the front site covers most of an animal, that its either too small or beyond my effective range. Add 2 clean misses (I think it was the same deer) to the tally
Found that the addiction needs to be fed in the off-season and have ordered supplies for casting roundballs as a treatment.

Thanks for the help guys

bramble

 

[Robert an saa fan]

Congratulations Hank! Very neat that your liberal professor daughter learned from dad and is spreading the word!

Highlight of my muzzleloading year is the purchase of probably the most beautiful 2nd Generation Colt 1851 Navy I have ever had.

The blue quality is outstanding like many 2nd Generation 1851 Navies. As author Mike Venturino noted in his book on shooting Colt single actions the quality is like a Colt Python. The color case hardening looks like a new original and is excellent on every color case hardened part.

The action is perfectly timed and smooth as glass.

Have not shot her yet, probably unfired, may not shoot her as have other 2nd Generations.

May replace old favorite 1851 whose serial numbers end in: " 051 ".

Again, congratulations Hank! :hatsoff:

 

[Wehrmacht]

Good Lord....I don't even know where to start! Live in the woods in "Plantation Country" north of Tallahassee,Fl.(Yankees own the Plantations, and they're all :youcrazy: from in-breeding to keep the money in the family) so I shoot anytime I get ready-50 yard range in the yard.

Got a bunch of squirrels with my little .32cal House Rifle. Two hogs so far. A sow with my new straight rifled .60cal piece, and a young 100 or so pound boar with,of all things,my little .32cal squirrel rifle. Never underestimate the abilities of a small PRB through the "boiler room" :thumbsup: Our deer season runs through the end of February,and since I can sit in my office/gun room upstairs and shoot one through the window,I'm not in any hurry to bust one.

My "cup truly runneth over", and I'm very thankful for being so fortunate! Only two new flintlocks in'06, but have a New England Fowler presently being built :winking:. Need it like I need a hole in the head....I'm flintlock poor now :shake:

 

[J.D.]

I probably haven't fired 100 rounds this year.

I have learned a lot about repairing flintlocks through rebuilding the lock on the Petersoli bess, and am still working through the learning curve on forging mainsprings.

My goal for this year is to build my first scratch built gun. I plan to build an early Virginia rifle closely based in the Faber gun.

I bought a nice fairly straight grain piece of maple at Dixon's last year, but I couldn't find good yellow brass castings of the butt piece and triggerguard, so I bought over sized parts from Reaves Goering to modify.

I DO NOT like the sideplate on the original, so that will be one of the few things that will change. And of course the LOP will be stretched to about 13 1/2 inches.

Nearly all of the parts for this gun will be made or modified from existing parts.

The barrel I plan to use is a straight tapered DeHass 54 cal, 40 inch tube that needs some light swamping.

Yeah, I know, I should just buy a swamped barrel for this gun, but most barrels have TOO MUCH swamp, and since DeHass doesn't make swamped barrels, I gotta do it myself.

Another of my goals for this year is to use the parts that have accumulated over the last few years, hence the use of the DeHass barrel. Not to mention that my gun safe won't accept 42 inch long barrels.
J.D.

 

[rabjr]

Lets see, built a flintlock for my Uncle and made him into a believer. :grin:

Built a flintlock for a friend and made him into a believer. :grin:

Ended my three year tribute to Lewis and Clark by filling one deer tag with my 1792 Contract rifle. Shot six deer in the three years with flintlock and it's hooked me forever. :grin:

Ordered a Swamp Rat version of a New England Fowler to be built for me by a professional builder. :grin:

 

[snagg]

Just got into f/l's this past spring. But have done quite a bit of shootin with it this past year. I didn't connect on a deer this year with the f/l but my youngest boy did just that a couple days ago. I'm happy for him.
On Wednesday a fella is bringing an old T/C Hawkens over for me to look at. Thinking of trading a pistol for it. We'll see.

snagg

 

[Many Klatch]

I managed to go to a regular monthly shoot about 6 times this year. I also shot every day at the Southeastern Rendezvous and the Northeastern Rendezous. I managed to win a match or two so I figure that I am doing OK.

I hope to shoot more often this year and make a few more rendezvous. Work still gets in the way but I only have 616 days left. Something to look forward to anyway.

Most of my guns have been in my hands for 15 to 20 years. The Brown Bess is my new baby, I've only had it for 4 years. Boy do I like the way that baby bucks with 90 grains of 2F, talk about fun.

Many Klatch

 

[Smoke_Ring]

Had a good year for shooting. My wife started shooting this year and she loves it. We took the camper to 3 multi day shoots along with the monthly club shoots and some others as well. Not much got done around the house but we had a good time.
Smoke Ring

 

[Halftail]

Let's see...I shot a bunch last year(Couldn't tell you the exact number though)Some formal shoots and some not.Spent alot of time online here at MLF,reading and thinking about Muzzleloaders and shooting them.Spent another good chunk of my time up and around my hunting camp either hunting with or shooting my muzzleloaders.I love this hobby.