Any Traditional Muzzleloaders Here?

[flintlocker]

Flintlocks?

Round balls?

Real black powder?

[jdb]

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

[MagKarl]

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]

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]

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]

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

[gadwall]

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]

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

[KLRKeith]

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

[flintlocker]

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

[Hangfire]

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]

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

[boneaddict]

Thats cool hangfire. 

[RunningBear]

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]

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