Can a Rolling Block be used as a Muzzleloader?

[hobbeeman]

I shot this gargantuan sticker head doe yesterday with my muzzle loader. I shot her at about 85 yards with my Knight Rolling block rifle

Please excuse my ignorance, it overflows freely. I would love to go hunting in a muzzle loader season, but I have no great love for the muzzleloading rifles that I have seen. Can I purchase a rolling block and then use it as a muzzle loader?

What is the technique?

Thanks in advance,
David

 

[Bezoar]

well david theres two slight problems.

First off, the knight rifle being refered to is a modern design muzzleloading rifle. THe "roling block" refered to is the breech cover/hammer assembly that rotates on a pivot so that you can place a shotgun primer on the percussion cone/nipple.

A rolling block, is by definition a single shot cartridge rifle. Hence it is ILLEGAL to use in a muzzleloading rifle only season. However Cabelas sold and may still sell a special production inline muzzleloader that uses the classice remington rolling block rifle design. Exept it does not use metalic cartridges.

If you wanted to you could investigate the purchase of a reproduction sharps rifle. They use prerolled paper cartridges. I have seen the replica of the sharps that also uses metal cartridges that you load yourself. I do not know if that would qualify as muzzleloader in your state.

 

[45crittergitter]

The answer to the question of what weapons are legal during muzzleloading, black powder, primitive weapon, etc. season varies from state to state. In MS, all muzzleloading rifles using black powder or equivalent, and certain old cartridge rifles (including Remington Rolling Blocks and replicas thereof) of at least 38 caliber are legal during that season.

 

[pete f]

How about calling your Texas state fish and game, or DNR or what ever its called down there and asking them. Asking a national board a state regs question is going to get you all sorts of answers, probably very few which are actually from texas and familar with the law.