What muzzleloader are you running this year.

[courtgreene]

Oh my, I’ve experienced a new sorrow. When a fat doe walks out and the cap goes off but the charge doesn’t. I guess my nipple was clogged . Shameful I know, you can bet that thing will be spotless from now on!
One more day to connect before It switches to modern firearms. I love hunting in Alabama

Happened to me last year and it was oil that I left in it seeping into the powder. I cleaned it and reloaded and got a deer the following week but from that point on I started carrying my old muzzleloader loaded as a backup. Haven’t needed it since. When one doesn’t go bang, though, I can’t think of a better plan b.

 

[entropy]

If I actually get out for ML season, it will be with my Traditions Hawken Hunter. I gave the other 2 .50 Hawkens to my son, and sold the Bobcat to a friend so his Mom could hunt the ML season last fall.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

.62 Caliber Jeager, 110 grains of Swiss 1.5fg, .600" ball and patch. My main hunting rifle, and what I use most often.
Brown Bess "Ranger Carbine". .690" ball, patch, and 140 grains 1fg Swiss or Scheutzen. I take her out on days I don't mind limiting my range to 50 yards or 70 yards at best.
I have three .58's, but this is my favorite. I like to take the cap-locks with me on hunting trips, as "backup" rifles should the weather get really wet. I can keep the flintlocks running in the rain, but I'm sometimes too lazy to do so. (also have a TC Hawken in .50 cal, 85 grains 2fg Swiss and the Hornady Great Plains 385 grain bullet) Sometimes I will take this Armi-Sport 1861 out just because it's a really really nice rifle. Build quality, wood, fit and finish is fantastic. I've not found the perfect hunting load for it, but she's showing promise with 85 grains 2fg Swiss, and the Lee-REAL bullet, which comes out of my mold at 456 grains.

 

[.38 Special]

@Ugly Sauce I fall a bit more in love with that Jaeger every time you post it. If you ever publish a picture book filled with nothing but shots of that rifle, you will have at least one sale.

 

[.38 Special]

As to the OP's topic, I have been moving progressively toward "harder" for a decade now, and may have reached a logical endpoint, ie an English warbow with which I haven't been able to hit anything at all. It's been fun, but I'm not entirely sure I can still honestly call it "hunting" any more.

Pedersoli has offered this "Rocky Mountain Hawken" for the past decade or so, and I have come "this close" to buying one on several occasions. Assuming I can find one for sale (and assuming I can find caps!) I think that I will make it into my next hunting rifle.

 

[FL-NC]

Traditions buck stalker, bought at wally world 4 years ago, came with a scope. Got 2 does with it, 1 was 100 yards away, but nothing with it in the last couple years. BP season is only a week long here.

 

[Choctaw]

TC Renegade percussion in 50 cal. I have a soft spot when it comes to TC "traditional" muzzleloaders. No, they are not a Jackie Brown but they put a smile on my face.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

@Ugly Sauce I fall a bit more in love with that Jaeger every time you post it. If you ever publish a picture book filled with nothing but shots of that rifle, you will have at least one sale.

Birddog6 of Alabama will make you one, and any way you want it. He makes very fancy ones, but I went with simplicity. The money spent on a custom gun will soon be forgotten in a year or two, but the rifle will outlast the owner, and one will never get tired of it.

 

[.38 Special]

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Birddog6 of Alabama will make you one, and any way you want it. He makes very fancy ones, but I went with simplicity. The money spent on a custom gun will soon be forgotten in a year or two, but the rifle will outlast the owner, and one will never get tired of it.

I will have to give some serious thought to that. Such a wonderful rifle!

 

[Ugly Sauce]

TC Renegade percussion in 50 cal. I have a soft spot when it comes to TC "traditional" muzzleloaders. No, they are not a Jackie Brown but they put a smile on my face.

I have a TC I picked up a while back for free with a ruined bore, so I got another barrel on Ebay, and I kind of like it. I didn't used to like "them", but I like it. The design of the breech is odd, but I've found that as long as you understand it, and clean it right, pay attention to detail, it works well. I've not had a single miss-fire or failure to fire. I have some tacks on order/on the way right now, so I can make it look like the Farmer's. (the Armored one)