BP rifles

My first was a Christmas present in 1985, A TC hawkin .54 cal kit gun. Three years later I put it together. It's always shot well when I shoot it. The BP bug bit me about two months ago and all I've done is obsess about BP rifles. I've bought two more since that time. Now I have four of them. My .54, a .36 cal Seneca my wife had before she died, and a new .32 Crockett and new to me .50 Traditions LH hawkin. Lately just can't get the muzzle loaders out of my mind. Must be some kind of illness like alcoholism or something. I like it though.

Yep... I only have 3 muzzleloaders and they're all 54cal; two Cabela's rifles and a Lyman Plains Pistol. I too probably spend more time than I ought to thinking about shooting and hunting with muzzleloaders. Heck, I'm supposed to be working right now.

When I was younger, all I had on my mind was women, and muzzle loaders.
Now at my age, all I have left is muzzle loaders. :haha:
Still can't afford either.
Seriously, I am no sooner building one gun, and I have another build on my mind.
It is a sickness.
Fred

Old Ford said:

When I was younger, all I had on my mind was women, and muzzle loaders.
Now at my age, all I have left is muzzle loaders. :haha:
Still can't afford either.
Seriously, I am no sooner building one gun, and I have another build on my mind.
It is a sickness.
Fred

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:rotf: Lots of truth in this response. Luckily I still have women at my age. Well, just one woman actually...

Glad I only have one woman to worry about. Can’t imagine going through the handling of, cleaning, wiping down, and then oiling more than one!

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I've had a mild case of ML disease for 40-plus years, but it seems to have gotten into the critical stage here the past year ... all I want to do (as I sit here at my work computer) is be outside burning black powder in one of my three MLs. Just bought a new .50 Great Plains Rifle, and I go out into my garage every night when I get home from work and admire her. It is a serious illness. :wink:

Thread is delivering the goods. :rotf: :rotf:

I freaking love all of this stuff. The shooting, collecting/trading, rendezvousing. All of it.

Can only imagine the trouble I'd be getting into I wasn't busy with all this.

mushka said:

Must be some kind of illness like alcoholism or something. I like it though.

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It's not an illness or a sickness.....It's the CURE!.....For boredom. :grin:

It's an addiction, same as smoking, dipping and drinking can be. Thing is, it's only cure is more and more MLs and more and more burning powdah.

Silky921 said:

I freaking love all of this stuff. The shooting, collecting/trading, rendezvousing. All of it.

Can only imagine the trouble I'd be getting into I wasn't busy with all this.

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:metoo: Lots cheaper than the bar in the long run too!

They're like Lays Potato chips. Bet you can't have just one.

It's an addiction, same as smoking, dipping and drinking can be.

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Keeps me out of bars, pool halls, slot machine parlors, and poker dens...., :wink:




Too poor to frequent those establishments....





LD

Me too.

i love it to, started around 1982, with a renegade, now I own 2or 3 of anykind you can think of.I build them or just find um cheap at tag sales and polish um up scrub um out and save those old negleted ones and make shooters out of um.

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Mooman76 said:

They're like Lays Potato chips. Bet you can't have just one.

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Nope. Unless I miscounted, I have 18 currently if you count pistols too.

Oops, I did miscount. It's 19.

You need to work, to get money, to get more BP guns. THAT is the circle of life. :hmm: