Ranger Roberts
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I'm sitting around talking with my buddy who owns my LGS this morning. We are both getting excited because hunting season is coming up. I tell him that I have a black bear hunt coming up in November. I was holding a can of Pyrodex as we were talking. An older gentleman was listening as we were talking (he was being helped by someone else). He leans over, points at the Pyrodex and says "you gonna use that on your bear hunt?" I told him that I was using my Super Blackhawk, not a BP gun. He goes on to tell me and my buddy that he hunted black bear for 20 years using a steel framed .44 colt reproduction. I said "a cap and ball revolver?", he says "yes". I asked if he had any luck, he says he has pulled out more black bear with his BP revolver than anyone else he knows. I told him I've never heard of anyone doing that before. He started to get a little snippy but right then his sales person comes back with the item he was looking for. I took this as my cue to get out of Dodge before he decides to regale me with more of his stories.
So I ask you guys, is this guy full of it? I have never heard of someone using a .44 cap and ball to hunt black bear.
So I ask you guys, is this guy full of it? I have never heard of someone using a .44 cap and ball to hunt black bear.