[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

"I detect a certain pattern here.
A modern inline shooter will cry and whine and moan if he has to pay over $200.00 for a rifle. He will then shoot $40.00/lb. powder and expensive 209's in it and clean it with special solvents and cleaners that cost's about $20.00 for a 4 ounce bottle and then keep it in a case that cost's a hundred dollars or more.
A traditionalist will pay $2000.00 or more for a regular muzzle loader or flintlock and then shoot $12.00/lb powder, use lead he scrounged up from a junk yard, patch it with a piece of worn out bed sheet and spit and a rock, then clean it by pissing down the barrel and lubing it with grease he squeezed out of a dead bear, and stand it in the corner when he's through with it.
Ain't muzzle loading grand?"

[NobleSniper]

:D LOL thats a good way of looking at it !!

[kwhi43@kc.rr.com]

If you only knew how I pick out my whiskey and women!!

[GENTLEMAN OF THE CHARCOAL]

I can imagine!!

[bigbadgun]

LOL that is the right way to look at it ROFLMAO

[4v50 Gary]

It gets cheaper when the buckskinner makes his own hunting pouch, powder horn, powder measure and clothes (no, I never went that far and am a range slob because I show up in blue jeans and t-shirt).

[theotherwaldo]

Then they's guys like me who buy both kinds of guns cheap at auction, feed 'em all on Holy Black and the erzatz stuff as I see fit, pour my own bullets and then stuff the guns with whatever works ok with their rifling rate, clean 'em all with soap and water, get most of my supplies by buying up big lots of stuff from those that are getting out of this kind of shooting, case them all in sleeves made from old navy blankets, and lean them all together in the same cheap "Residential Security Container".