Don't ruin an ML by using anything but smokeless powder.
Swampy's re-born ?
I AM going to post any of my own further "Muzzle Loading" equipment news, or project related esotrica,... HERE on the Campfire BPCR forum. I'd encourage anybody else running BP through a flinter, or cap ignited long OR SHORT gun to do the same.
Would welcome any disagreements, about so doing,....not that it's going to make one goddam bit of difference, and don't expect sugar cookies and cocoa response to any drivel indicating that this is a mis guided thrust.....
How to run smokeless pressures without a brass cartridge case has NOTHING to do with what the term MUZZLE LOADING actually means. It's BASICALLY an excercise in going around one' azz to get to one's elbow. It's also very DEEPLY embedded contemporary "lore" in some dirtbag anti 2A zones. ....can't BELIEVE how degenerate these regulation embracing a-wholes have become.
So,....let's hear it.
GTC
Last edited by crossfireoops; 03/26/16.
Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
I'd rather not,...just calling out the fact that terms, and phrases once held dear as MEANING something simple, straightforward, and accepted CAN and DO change.
What some folk, God bless em' are calling "Muzzle loading" is incomprehensible,...
....a trip to a weird planet,...one that bathes in BLASPHEMY.
This place is ABOUT Black Powder,...all I'm doing is bringing my muzzle loading back to where it belongs, as far as I can see.
....The HELL else am I supposed to go ?
GTC
Pride Of Man by Hamilton Camp
(Em) Turn around (A) go back down go (C) back the way you (D) came (Em) Can't you see the (A) flash of fire (C) ten times brighter (Em) than the day And behold the (A) mighty city (C) broken in the (D) dust again (Em) Oh God the (A) pride of man (C) broken in the (D) dust a(Em)gain Turn around go back down go back the way you came Babylon is laid to waste Egypt's buried in her shame Their mighty men are beaten down the kings are fallen in the ways Oh God the pride of man broken in the dust again
Turn around go back down go back the way you came Terror is on everyside though the leaders are dismayed Those who put their faith in fire in fire their faith shall be repaid Oh God the pride of man broken in the dust again
Turn around go back down go back the way you came Shout a warning to the nations that the sword of god is raised On Babylon that mighty city rich in treasure wide in fame It shall cause thy towers to fall and make it be a pyre of flame Oh God the pride of man broken in the dust again
Thou that dwell on many water rich in treasure wide in fame Bow unto a god of gold thy pride of might shall be thy shame Oh God the pride of man broken in the dust again
And only God can lead the people back into the faith again Thy holy mountain be restored thy mercy on thy people hoard
Last edited by crossfireoops; 03/26/16.
Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
I know the idea of the whole "in-line muzzleloader" trend is to allow longer range shooting, in "muzzleloading seasons". I guess I might consider it, if I was in an area where the "muzzleloader" season was much more desirable than the regular rifle season. Otherwise, I just don't see the point of them.
The areas where "muzzle loader seasons" are more desirable seem to be DEMOGRAPHICALLY poor, on many levels,...take note of all the states where the 'expertise' drizzles and drips from. The equipment's SOUL, if it had ANY, would be that of a back alley shyster / lawyer, dressed head to toe in synthetic plastic. Certainly not that of an American sportsman,in wool.
As far as "Longer Range Shooting" goes,...there's a whole world of embarrassing realities one might have to confront, in denigrating fine BP fueled ML rifles.
Back later,...gotta' go check the level in my ML soaking bucket.
GTC
Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
Pat I got one when my eyes got bad and they are easier to scope. Although mine has the capability, I do not shoot 150 gr. of powder and try to make it a long distance gun. I limit my shots on deer to around 100 yds or less, and have killed several deer with it. When I first started with the black powder, it was with a Hawkins and it was a bonus deer. Not so now as your tags are equal between muzzle-loader or center-fire. Archery is the only way to pick up an extra deer. Limits are more liberal now and I seldom fill my tags, just shoot what I want to eat. miles
Some years back, faced with ever increasing strength of prescription for glasses, I was a bit depressed to look at open/leaf sights on a number of rifles gathering dust. An epiphany was had in the form of peeps/aperture sights and oddly enough, a trip back to the beginning.
In the beginning, well, not exactly the beginning, we had round balls and patches, black powder and loooong barrels. One of my loony friends conned me into a Pennsylvania style flinter with a 42" barrel. Fine blade and a shallow notch. Well, put that front sight out a bit longer than is common today and chitt happens...
Offhand, 50 yards, the 1 o'clock strike on the left target was a casual fouling shot.
It is one of my favorite diversions.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
My son at age 8, three gold medals and a silver in the teenage class, state shoot. .50 cal. Hawken round ball. The pictured target was at 100 yards, prone, with a brisk cross wind. Beat the men's winner by one point.
He's now a 48 y/o Army NG LTC, combat veteran of Iraq. He can still shoot.
Paul
Stupidity has its way, while its cousin, evil, runs rampant.