What in the HELL-O is wrong with me??

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I can't stop buying muzzleloaders... in the last 2 months, I've purchased:

--Three Hawken style rifles (one T/C, one Traditions, one CVA)
--Savage 10 ML
--Knights inline
--Rossi .45 cal inline

That's SIX new ones, and I "needed" exactly NONE (aside from wanting the Savage, I WAS previously happy with my one inline). I don't know why I'm doing it other than I love muzzleloader season and I want to be able to arm my friends during ML season who don't have one and my nephews when they get old enough to hunt, and I feel like I'm getting decent deals on them, since it's just post-ML-season. Also, in the case of the Hawkens, I'm justifying them as being "wallhangers". Is my firearm disease metastasizing here or what? Somebody stop me!

 

[arcticap]

You're totally normal.
You haven't even bought two or three of the exact same model yet!

 

[4v50 Gary]

Buy a horn and start carving on it. When you're finished carving it, then dye it. Afterwards, draw on it and scrimshaw it. That'll keep you busy for a while and away from the gunstores. That'll be $5 please.

 

[BHP FAN]

You haven't mentioned revolvers yet.You may be,indeed,gravely ill.

 

[Shultzhaus]

I have 3 revolvers, and 3 rifles. I've been told, if I buy one more, it will be used on me. Wait until you are living on retirement money. You'll slow down for sure.

 

[madcratebuilder]

Wait tell you start on revolvers. I'm at about a dozen now and seems I'm just getting started. I just discovered the Hege brand in Germany. I now have to sell and replace a few.

 

[Macmac]

Seems to me to be the time to get you a custom made rifle, closer to the real thing...

There are dozens of great builders, that use Colrain barrels and Getz barrels and you can have a very close to the real thing kind of gun.

Search the NMLRA classified adds on line and or the Muzzelloader magazine adds from petersons I think publishing.

I'll see if I can find a link.

Here ya go, and this is just the tip of a big iceburg...
http://www.muzzleloadermag.com/Links page.htm

 

[Shawnee]

Hi Sauce...

Your concern that you are not buying muzzleloaders fast enough is certainly understandable. Only thing I can think of to accelerate your acqusitions is to start shopping at 24-hour muzzleloading stores.

Where are the pics of the skimpy handful you've already bought ?
HTH

 

[nekwah]

I buy traditional and hunt with a traditional hawken muzzleoader. You dont have a problem but whoever manages your books might think you do. I agree with some of you, do something custom that will be nice and will take a long time.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

"Pics or it didn't happen", eh?

Is that what you're telling me? OK, see below....

Your concern that you are not buying muzzleloaders fast enough is certainly understandable. Only thing I can think of to accelerate your acqusitions is to start shopping at 24-hour muzzleloading stores.

I'm glad someone understands the situation.

Left to right:
--Traditions LH Hawken .50 cal,
--T/C Hawken .45 cal, w/ engraving of sorts.
--CVA Hawken .50 cal, w/ "tiger striping".
--Savage 10ML II, .50 cal smokeless, with Nikon Omega 3-9x40mm,
--Traditions Thunderbolt .50 cal, cut to 21", w/ Rustoleum "Stone" textured finish, w/ Burris FF II 1.75-5x20mm.

Tell me if I did well, badly, or average on my purchase prices of these - these are the prices without scope/rings for each:
--Traditions LH Hawken .50 cal, NIB, $175 shipped to door
--T/C Hawken .45 cal, w/ engraving of sorts, fair to good condition, minor surface rust in barrel, $185 @ gun show
--CVA Hawken .50 cal, w/ "tiger striping", like new/never fired. $130 @ gun show
--Savage 10ML II, .50 cal smokeless, used, excellent condition $539.98 + 8.375% tax ($586)
--Traditions Thunderbolt .50 cal, cut to 21", fluted bbl, w/ Rustoleum "Stone" textured finish, $99.95 plus 8.375% tax, new from BassPro, plus cost of gunsmithing, finish, and shorter ramrod (another $110, let's say).

Better question: Which one am gonna hunt with opening weekend next year?!?

 

[sundance44s]

I see room for 11 long rifles in that cabinet ...get busy and fill in the blanks ..and there has to be room for a revolver cabinet ..
Heck I sold off my collection of modern smokeless shooters , to make room for my new found friends the black powder guns I did keep some I thought I might have a use for ...But now I spend more time looking at and fondleing what I have not to mention shooting more ...and when me and the wife watch a western movie ...she gets to say ...hey you have one of those ...and one of those ..and one of those ...LOL never heard her say that about my modern guns ....maybe she enjoys them too .

 

[DeepintheHeart]

Madcratebuilder: what have you got for sale?

 

[tx gun runner]

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Just beautiful, tn gun....Don't you guys EVEN get me started on BP pistols - sheesh, that's all I need....

 

[Daizee]

ooh, I LOVE that pistol!

 

[tx gun runner]

Sold most of my ML and this is what is left . Here a couple more pics . The 357 I designed and made it from gun parts in my shop . The hammer is coil spring and the lock time is faster that S&W rev and the flame is less then a 1/4 inch and in the center of charge and burn both direction .



The stock was all hand cut by me , not a blank

 

[trickshot]

PremiumSauces,

Your still missing a flintlock fowler. I have a long barreled 20 gauge that will round out your collection.

 

[logjam]

Oh, no! You've got "gunnutitus". It's a very serious and dangerous disease. I know, because I've suffered from it for decades. I also own hundreds and hundreds of guns. I mean, who needs hundreds and hundreds of gun? I must be nuts.

Just ask my wife.

She, sadly hasn't contracted the ailment...it's not contagous I guess. I show her a gun. I tell her it's history. I tell her what a fabulous investment it is. It doesn't matter. She's immune.

You probably could do just fine with one kind of muzzle loader. You need one old style and one new style. You can't live without, at least those...get rid of one or the other and death will fall hard on your heels.

I find that since I own so many guns I actually lose the ability to shoot one of them well. I mean really well. To become expert on any shoot'n iron you need to shoot it and none other, over and over again.

I suggest that you keep your muzzle loaders and take one of them out each night while sitting in front of the O'Reilly show and rub it softly with a slightly oily rag, then put in back into your safe. Tell your wife, as you are doing this how much you love that gun. She will give you a funny look and say, "That's nice". In this way you may soften her up for another purchase.

But you must shoot only one. Pick your favorite and bang away. Give the gun a name, a female name and talk to her. If the men in the little white coats come for you tell'm to stuff it....it's all part of gunnutitus you see.

 

[Macmac]

logjam said: She, sadly hasn't contracted the ailment...it's not contagous I guess. I show her a gun. I tell her it's history. I tell her what a fabulous investment it is. It doesn't matter. She's immune.

On the other hand knowing someone 'immune' can be fatal to the afflicted.

I had a uncle with many guns, in the thousands literally, and when he passed his wife sold them all for very little of there real value. She got a handy sum, but nothing like she should have.

That alone nearly killed me...

 

[logjam]

Macmac; your story is a horrible one. It's a nightmare. It'll take me an extra dram of scotch to get to sleep tonight.

As we all know, we sell our gun buying to our family/spouses because they are such a wonderful investment. Well, they are and they aren't.

For something to be in investment one must also be willing to sell it. Now if you are like me, selling your tried and true Auto 5, is as likely as loaning your 64 1/2 Mustang to a drunken teenager.

What happens; after we go to that great gun show in the sky, is our widows end up with one heck of a collection with no idea what to do with it. So they call a local dealer. Now, we all know those guys are honest as a judge, and will go out of their way to do the right thing by your collection and your weeping spouse. (Least I hope mine will be weeping....she'd better!)

Your wife gets about a dime on the dollar. Happens every time.

The only solution is to sell your gun collection before you die. The timing works pretty well, for as soon as you walk into your ex-gun room and find it empty you'll ticker will stop ticking. That's where they'll find you, right next to where you used to display your collection of pre-64 Model 70's.

It's a quick death, but a very, very painful one.

 

[BHP FAN]

Or the blank spot the BHP's were!

 

[Shultzhaus]

I will not sell my guns, or let my widow sell them. I have two sons, and grandsons, who will keep them in the family. Value seems to go up, as they get old. I have a Ruger .357 Black Hawk, that I bought in Phoenix in 1971 for $96.00 - Guess what it is worth now? Also bought a Ruger Bearcat .22, for $49.50 at a store called Globe. I think Globe is a Western version of K-Mart. Both guns are in their original boxes, with the receipts, and owner's manuals. Point is, keep your keepsakes in the family, if you can. You will not need them after your memorial service is over.

 

[Macmac]

I figure to beat all that and by pass it entirely. I will load up my canoe and put ALL my guns in it and get crispy crittered withem, and go the Fur Trappers idea of Valhalla.

My son presently is in the act of having his son, this coming March. He knows it is a 'son' as the ultrasond says so, and a arrow shows that the medical folks put there, pointing to that 'particular part of a males anatomy' as they say on the tv!

The problem is my son has his own ideas of what a gun should be and what it should look like, and these are nothing close to my ideas. On the other hand he seems to slowly becoming around, but I have my doubts I will live to see him own any flinters..

I have a odd Modle 91?93? Mauser in a full stock, that forever i thought was a Mannlicher-Schönauer in 6.5x54, and he has no inclination what so ever to want it..... Go figure huh?

So logjam how was that extra dram of scotch ?

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Your still missing a flintlock fowler. I have a long barreled 20 gauge that will round out your collection.

I'm gonna have to hurt you.

 

[CAMPBELL49T]

Muzzleman

Hey doc go for it. I have been blackpowdering for about a year. I love it. 3 band enfield 58,zouave 58, hawkins flint 50 and hawkins 54.
5o and 45 cal pistols,revolvers 2 36 old navy 4 remingtons all styles, 45 old army ruger and 44 drgoon with a 18.5 barrel. And still going.: