The difference between BP and smokeless shooters

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I was sitt'n on a stump next to a kindred sole on his worn out porch in front of the house he built many years ago. He was explaining the history of the Kentucky Long rifle he was cleaning. As he regaled me with tail after tail of the old days. I asked him what he thought the difference was between the fellers who shot BP versus those who shot smokeless. "Leme tell ya young lad, [I'm 55.] A BP shooter gots at least two or more junk drawers in the Kitchen were a smokeless don't know the meaning of junk. A BP shooter will hang thar TP so as hangs away from the wall and a smokeless shooter hangs it next to the wall. If ya goes to a BP shooters BBQ ya gonna get yourself a rare steak and some fine seafood. Them thar smokeless folk eat hot dogs, toe fu. 'n spam burgers. Smokeless folk can't shoot a gun that aint got a scope on it." Then he handed me a canning jar of some of the soomest Kentucky sipp'n whiskey I ever tasted and said, "Them smokeless folk drinks lite beer and white wine. Like thar guns, what's the point?" Pondering the wisdom of his words I began to wonder what other differences the fine BP folks of the THR might be pondering.
 
BP shooters have defective smellers.
BP shooters can take their shootin' irons in the bathtub with them.
BP shooters don't need to be as persnickity about how much powder they load.
BP shooters don't have to fill out all that irritating and insulting gommint paperwork most places.
Next.........
 
I think I got wet just looking at that! Wow! Now that thar's a shoot'n iron!
 
I think I got wet just looking at that! Wow! Now that thar's a shoot'n iron!
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CANNONMAN, that's why I don't go to Friendship or Dickson's, I would be drooling over those rifles so much people would think I was sick or something and call an ambulance!!! :)
 
BP shooters:

- appreciate each shot

- have better backs because they don't pick up fired brass

- save money on ammo because they can't shoot quickly and spend so much time comparing gear

- think it's interesting to discuss patch lubes

- take a micrometer to the fabric store

PLEASE don't show that rifle again. Talk about firearm envy! at least my beard caught the drool. ;)

Jeff
 
JRH6856 said:
According to his description, I am a BP shooter in all respects. Yet I have never owned a BP firearm. :uhoh:
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That's a solvable problem. Whip out the credit card, hit Cabelas or Track of the Wolf, they'll send it right to your door, no FFL nonsense.
 
Blackpowder shooters like the smell of rotten eggs in the morning.

They also like to get dirty when they shoot!
 
EljaySL said:
That's a solvable problem. Whip out the credit card, hit Cabelas or Track of the Wolf, they'll send it right to your door, no FFL nonsense.
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Yeah. The real problem is finding a place I can shoot it that isn't a 3-4 hour round trip. I think a local range may have changed their rules. I'll have to check it out.
 
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The story is told of a young man that bought a brand new rifle shooting a newly introduced cartridge called a 30-06. He took the weapon up to show his grandfather and was bragging about the capabilities and how it could do so much more than his old 50 caliber bp rifle.

After his grandson had finished the old man loaded his newly obsolete weapon and set it aside. Going into the springhouse he brought out two candles and walked over to the woodpile and stuck a double bit axe into a billet of wood. Then striking a match on the seat of his pants lit a candle on either side of the axe head. Walking back to his porch he picked up his rifle wet the front sight with a saliva moistened finger and fired, hitting the edge of the axe cutting the ball in two and each half putting out a candle.

The old man sat down, spit a stream of tobacco on the ground and handed his grandson a lucifer match and said... Let me see your fancy rifle do that...

The grandson's reply has been lost through the passage of time.

(Told by an old redneck philosopher and repeated as best as memory serves.)

That would be as good a difference as any.
 
most bp users just do it to extend their season?

most bp users like to use it to make themselves seem more impressive?

bp/pyrodex/t7 agruments make glock/colt python/sw/1911/45acpvs9mm fights look like normal polite conversations.
 
Blackpowder shooters can have fun getting rid of moles in their yard...
 

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I was sitt'n on a stump next to a kindred sole on his worn out porch in front of the house he built many years ago. He was explaining the history of the Kentucky Long rifle he was cleaning. As he regaled me with tail after tail of the old days. I asked him what he thought the difference was between the fellers who shot BP versus those who shot smokeless. "Leme tell ya young lad, [I'm 55.] A BP shooter gots at least two or more junk drawers in the Kitchen were a smokeless don't know the meaning of junk. A BP shooter will hang thar TP so as hangs away from the wall and a smokeless shooter hangs it next to the wall. If ya goes to a BP shooters BBQ ya gonna get yourself a rare steak and some fine seafood. Them thar smokeless folk eat hot dogs, toe fu. 'n spam burgers. Smokeless folk can't shoot a gun that aint got a scope on it." Then he handed me a canning jar of some of the soomest Kentucky sipp'n whiskey I ever tasted and said, "Them smokeless folk drinks lite beer and white wine. Like thar guns, what's the point?" Pondering the wisdom of his words I began to wonder what other differences the fine BP folks of the THR might be pondering.
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Is there a THR Hall of Fame Post thread? There needs to be. This needs to be in it.
 
I told my dad back in about '67 when I got into it, "I don't have to mess with those darn inconvenient self contained cartridge cases".
 
Most smokeless shooters spend way to much on cleaning supplies.
BP MZ shooters use what's in the kitchen.

BP MZ shooters ask " What's copper fouling ?"

BP MZ shooters don't worry 'bout head space.

Most BP MZ hunters shoot ONCE, and have no need for a rangefinder.

Most traditional BP MZ shooters don't have to worry about red eyebrows.



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Modern Shooters say:

I can shoot all day and not worry about my barrel rusting if I leave it for a day or two....
I can shoot in the rain...unless my optics are covered with droplets...
I can shoot ten times before reloading, and in some states even more...
My rifle shoots a bullet at X thousand feet per second...
My rifle has a range of x hundred feet...
My scope can see x hundred feet... again though if the glass is clean...

Modern Shooters also say:
I need help tracking my deer...I think I hit it....
I can't find ammunition for my rifle for less than x dollars per round....
Sometimes they say "I cant find any ammo for my rifle... "
Sometimes they also say, "I can't find reloading powder, nor bullets, nor primers...."
Sometimes they also say, "I can't use my rifle in X state as deer hunting is restricted to shotgun and muzzleloaders..."

Muzzleloader hunters most often say at the end of the season:
"Want some meat? I can barely fit all the venison, rabbit, squirrel, and birds in my freezer."

LD
 
Funny stuff guys! Tuesdays are my monday back at the office. Just great fun to come back to and read your replies. How about Bp folks still wear watches and read the comics in the sunday paper. Remember turning the channel on the - black & white - TV with a pair of plyers to the one of three channels available or that by midnight the National Anthem played because they signed off. When you went to get a soda, they made it. Houses had these things called porches on 'um. We all sat down together for dinner. A phone was never answered during dinner. Conversation was as common as writing letters - in cursive. I am not a technophobe. I've have a lot of really great black guns and have designed some amazing binaries. I miss people being people.
 
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