Author Topic: Any Traditional Muzzleloaders Here? (Read 8130 times)

flintlocker · « **on:** December 01, 2009, 07:00:40 PM »

Flintlocks?

Round balls?

Real black powder?

jdb · « **Reply #1 on:** December 01, 2009, 07:06:52 PM »

I fling some patched round balls. been thinkin of injunin up on a coyote and runnin one through him

MagKarl · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2009, 07:51:18 PM »

Nope - Caplock for now but shooting PRB and Goex. I'm sliding to the more traditional side though, my next one will be scratch built flint.

flintlocker · « **Reply #3 on:** December 01, 2009, 08:11:56 PM »

Excellent!

I love the old guns and simple ways. I don't know that I have ever felt handicapped with a flinter, even in the rain forest. It's always gone off when I needed it to. And my round balls always seem to go all the way through, even on elk at over 100 yards. Everytime I take the next step in simplifying, I seem to have more fun. I build my own, too. If you need any advice or sources, I can hook you up.

KLRKeith · « **Reply #4 on:** December 03, 2009, 07:55:58 AM »

I'm shooting a GPR caplock with .54cal roundballs and goex. Worked great on my Muley this year. I take it out chasing coyotes some days too.

flintlocker · « **Reply #5 on:** December 03, 2009, 08:37:15 PM »

KLR, as in Kawasaki? I was looking longingly at one of those today.

gadwall · « **Reply #6 on:** December 04, 2009, 07:04:38 AM »

Flint:

I have been hunting off and on with a muzzleloader for about 20 years and hunting deer exclusively with one since 2004. I have a Traditions Hawken that I built from a kit that has a nice piece of english walnut for a stock. Shoots roundballs and the TC conicals pretty well. I shoot 777 in both my inline and the hawken because it is so much cleaner.

Gadwall

WSU · « **Reply #7 on:** December 04, 2009, 04:44:31 PM »

I shoot a hawken with black powder and home-poured bullets. Worked great on my bull this year.

KLRKeith · « **Reply #8 on:** December 05, 2009, 09:55:31 PM »

Yep flint I ride a 08 and have over 18K miles on it allready..Was very helpful scouting this summer for hunting season.

flintlocker · « **Reply #9 on:** December 06, 2009, 05:34:07 PM »

Good to hear there're a few of you making meat with old-style iron.

Hangfire · « **Reply #10 on:** December 14, 2009, 08:55:10 PM »

I can not see iron sights any more, eye occlusion, but almost all my spring turkey hunting with a hand built 12 gauge flint. No choke never lost a bird.

Dadbear · « **Reply #11 on:** December 16, 2009, 10:43:23 AM »

Welcome aboard, Hangfire! Glad to see you're posting.
.... Dadbear

boneaddict · « **Reply #12 on:** December 16, 2009, 10:50:55 AM »

Thats cool hangfire.

RunningBear · « **Reply #13 on:** December 24, 2009, 06:01:15 PM »

New Here! :hello:I shoot flintlocks only!32,45,50,and 75.cal.Be moving up to Ione to retire in afew years.RunnigBear.

lonedave · « **Reply #14 on:** December 28, 2009, 09:14:03 PM »

Yep!

So far just caplocks (currently a .62 T/C Hawken), round balls, and 2f or 3f Goex blackpowder. I do have a smoothbore .62 flintlock fowler that I'm just getting to know. Here's last year's buck, a chukar and this year's elk.

DK

andy* · « **Reply #15 on:** April 11, 2015, 08:56:42 PM »

So I know this is a old thread. but just wanted to say that I too love to shoot a traditional muzzleloader.
I have a Royland Southgate rifle in .38 caliber that I use for small game.
A .20 gauge NorthWest Tradegun is my grouse and clay bird gun.
My favorite rifle of all is my .54 Hawken copy built by Loren "Doc" Brown.
Andy

RG · « **Reply #16 on:** April 12, 2015, 07:54:53 PM »

Quote from: andy* on April 11, 2015, 08:56:42 PM

So I know this is a old thread. but just wanted to say that I too love to shoot a traditional muzzleloader.
I have a Royland Southgate rifle in .38 caliber that I use for small game.
A .20 gauge NorthWest Tradegun is my grouse and clay bird gun.
My favorite rifle of all is my .54 Hawken copy built by Loren "Doc" Brown.
Andy

Sweet rifle! I have a track of the wolf early flint fullstock Hawken I built in 1995. Three elk and a bunch of mule deer later it still fires every shot.

andy* · « **Reply #17 on:** April 13, 2015, 04:47:06 AM »

Thanks RG.
I do love a Hawken rifle. Sounds like yours is hard to beat.
I use mine on everything from grouse to deer, bear and elk.
My one load is 80 grains of 2F a .15 patch with bear grease as lube for hunting, otherwise just spit and a .530 round ball.
Kinda nice having one load, keeps things simple. I find that I have to aim just a shade under at 25 yards and a bit over at 75 yards to hit what I want.
Andy

oneshot12 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 13, 2015, 12:05:53 PM »

54 cal custom round ball shooter & 62 cal trade gun

busterbrown · « **Reply #19 on:** June 19, 2015, 08:54:35 PM »

Quote from: gadwall on December 04, 2009, 07:04:38 AM

Gadwall,
Do you hunt ML out of state, or just Wa?

Flint:

I have been hunting off and on with a muzzleloader for about 20 years and hunting deer exclusively with one since 2004. I have a Traditions Hawken that I built from a kit that has a nice piece of english walnut for a stock. Shoots roundballs and the TC conicals pretty well. I shoot 777 in both my inline and the hawken because it is so much cleaner.

Gadwall

MLBowhunting · « **Reply #20 on:** June 19, 2015, 09:19:46 PM »

Nice guys.

shibbershabber · « **Reply #21 on:** June 21, 2015, 11:00:46 PM »

I've yet to take them hunting, though I plan on fixing that this season...

However, I've been blowing smoke for a while. I keep it traditional with the exception of an inline .54 pistol.

I've got a nice TC Hawken .54cal that's dead on @ 100yds... She's sure to fill my freezer this year.

Beyond that, I have a 'Zouave' .58cal, 2 .44cal '58 Remingtons, '62 Colt Navy police model .36cal, Trad Buck Hunter .54 pistol and my garage built Lyman Plains Pistol .54cal.

I absolutely love BP shooting... I even sold an AR to fund some of it

I have some Goex but have plenty of Pyro on hand. I always lube up and thoroughly wash everytime so I dont worry about fouling so much.

I also pour my own... Round balls, .54 Maxi balls, .58 Minie balls

Glad to see others are into it.

Not too many forums online, I've seen a few whose sites are straight out of the 90s.

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