Recent content by KenHulme

I'm gonna go way out on a limb here and suggest that if you want to keep target shooting you trade your .50 cal on a .30, .31, or .32 caliber long rifle; or something like a replica 1873 Colt Revolving Carbine, or a .31 or .32 cal. 'buggy rifle' single shot pistol with say 14"-18" barrel and a...

Still can't see what it looks like overall - need a left and right side view picture. From the look of the muzzle and butt it could be a shotgun/smoothbore. From the area around the lock plate it could be a percussion conversion from flinchlock.

Isaac - A Hawken or underhammer or flinchlock; long or short barrel; doesn't care what you point it at. The bullet doesn't care what it hits; paper or meat. Any muzzleloader can be used for paper; state regulations dictate what calibers can be used for which kinds of hunting. Now if...

Why not go for the best of both -- the Colt Revolving Rifle replica -- revolver action, longer barrel and detachable shoulder stock!

The value? What Mykeal said - If you want to sell the boxed set, start at $200 and if you don't get any takers, reduce price gradually to not less than $150. If you just want to sell just the revolver, start at $150 and let yourself get talked down to not less than $100.

I'll give you $75 for the one Jaxondog doesn't want

I think what you need is to spend a couple weeks reading every post related to flintlocks on a dedicated black powder forum such as http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com IMHO THR is a good forum, but not the best place for a beginner to get started. Most of the folks here are cap & ball revolver...

If you're from IL, then ask the sender if they'll ship directly to you, since you know that shipping to an FFL is not required for blackpowder weapons.

Geez getta new gun already! You don't need penetration as an excuse if you're a decent hunter. The last elk I shot with a muzzleloader was in Utah, right at timberline, on a game trail through an isolated stand of conifers. I was literally sitting on a stump when a bull and two cow walked by...

Grandpa - there are specific names, but not everyone uses them, or uses them correctly... Gun is generic - as in a gun, not a broom or a shovel. Handgun implies one hand operation, not a shoulder held gun. Pistol in black powder circles is a single shot, single or multiple barrel handgun...

BPRider; I know I'm going to have to field test the "trust time", but posted this question to get some starting parameters so that I could skip a few stages from say Every Day to Weekly Weekly to Monthly. Penetration tests are on my horizon too, even though some of that can be...

Arcticap - Ballons on the muzzle? In 'Nam we used condoms - second best use you can put them to;) Gentlemen: I choose to use BP in a double barreled pistol, not revolver because 1) it's unregistered; 2) it's adequately deadly; 3) I've built and shot them for decades; 3) with a...

I've been maintaining my marksmanship skills for something over 50 years. Weekly practice? I didn't do that when I was as a competitive pistol shooter or in the military. Cops don't shoot weekly either. If I can't hit a human at under 15 feet, in the heat of battle, something is really...

FRM- our ancestors trusted their lives and limbs to just such weapons for hundreds of years. It's not a question of weapon vs non-weapon, accountability or anything else; and I'd rather this discussion not get into philosophy.

Short, true story: I live aboard a small boat at a marina. Awhile back I was awakened at 4 AM by an "unauthorized visitor". Not having a firearm, I had to 'repel boarders' with a large knife. It worked, but I never want to go through that again... Fast forward a bit. I have acquired a...