Any Traditional Muzzleloaders Here?

[andy*]

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]

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*]

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]

  54 cal  custom  round ball shooter   & 62 cal trade gun 

[busterbrown]

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]

Nice guys.   

[shibbershabber]

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.