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Let's see some muzzleloaders!

Muzzleloading season starting soon so I wiped the dust from sitting all year and took a snapshot.

Knight .45 w/ 2-7x35 Burris

Lyman lefthanded .54 cal flintlock.....



My boy with the Ramblings Rifle, which is his now....



My KP1.....

Joseph Lang 18 bore double rifle. Technically, not mine any more. I sold her this summer.


Home build underhammer .45 with a paper patched bullet. Easily the ugliest rifle I own. One of the more accurate however.


Home built flint lock .54 roundball


I really need a new rifle though. This is what I want to build next. This is an authentic Hawken. One of only two that I have heard of having a pistol grip.

Triumph 50 cal. ......B&L 2x7x32 (just sold it and now have a VXII 2x7x32 on it.) New last year, got this deer on my first hunt with it.

Self explanatory...

Wildswalker, were you calling turkeys to whack'em with a .54? Seems like an interesting idea. Not legal here, but I like it.

Brent

My "primitive weapon":

Lyman Great Plains Rifle .54 cal.

My "modern muzzle loader":

Rem 700 ML .50 cal.

Shooting my 50 cal. CVA

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That was the plan, and is legal, here.

Did ya get one? I don't know if I would try with a muzzleloading rifle, even if legal, but I might.
Brent

Not yet, with that rifle.

Had it out a couple times last fall, and didn't turkey hunt this past spring due to the new job.

I can see a fair bit of commemoration in flintlocking a turkey.......

Here is an old picture with some dinks.



We were glad to get em.

Yeah, but the deer are nice

Brent,

Who makes the Hawken at the bottom of your post?

Parts set, kit, or ????

The Hawken Brothers made that rifle - the real Hawken brothers. That is a bona fide original. I would like to make one but I have not done it yet. There are no parts set - I have suggested that Track of the Wolf might want to get the jump on that - it would sell!

TC Triumph.

NICE fat buck. I wonder what he weighed. There is a tape measure sold (for a dollar) by the state of Pennsylvania that you can use to measure the girth of a deer and convert it into live weight, dressed weight and meat estimates. That boy is a real toad! I would love to take one like that.

Gotcha, Brent - authentic, as in an original! I should have caught that from your description but I'm (and have been for a while) for a build to undertake and got caught up in that fever.

Interesting pistol grip. Reminds me of an old L.C. Smith hammer gun that I used to drag around as a kid. Tight choked 33 inch barrels.

If you look at that picture for a while the grip will begin to look fat - it is. At least it does to me anyway. But it also looks really strong. I think it would be a dynamite hunting rifle. I would prefer it from black walnut and I may just do it from scratch so to speak. It would be a lot more unique than most. And really functional. I would build it light however. Shooting for around 8.5-9 lbs.

Skane, that would be a moose of a deer! Any idea of weight?

That would be the poster child for those of us who'd advocate using enough gun and cheering on penetration!