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Shooter1
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Get help!!! Grandson has shirt off my back, mocs off my feet, hat off my head, kentucky Pistol, Rem six shooter, custom lefty cap gun(39 in barrel), sick bow w/arrows and quiver. Starting to have room in my gun case for new 20ga trade gun (piece of art) and HR underhammer picked up at last shoot. Great to have a helper to help you with the addiction.
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I fear your warning came way too late. They breed like coat hangers ( but are far less irritating ).I just tell myself' ' A gentleman needs his battery' and carry on if few are bought mostly roll my own . Rudyard
Yes, one whiff of that smoke and you are hooked. I was!!!
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So that's why I have the shakes and keep getting tremors!
Won't be long now till the Betty Ford Clinic starts treating people for being strung out on muzzleloaders and hitting lock bottom by taking to the streets and trying to score black powder substitutes cut with who knows what. The struggle is real people. Ive heard stories about people selling their wives sewing machines to buy a Kibler kit. "She wasn't using it mannnn" People with the addiction can be spotted easily by the dark discoloration predominantly on the right side of their faces and that silly ass grin that tells you, they've been using......Schutzen triple F. Get your loved one to a facility before they add a period correct log cabin, man cave to the back of your vinyl sided cape cod. Look for the signs, that glazed uninterested look when discussing anything besides muzzleloading firearms. If your loved one starts wearing buck skins to church on Sunday, it may already be too late. If you hear that rythmic tapping and filing coming from your basement or garage late into the night, you need to seek help imediatly. Interventions have little success. Unless you're inviting your afflicted family member to a new 300 yard range, they're likely to suspect something, grab their possibles bag and go to ground. My solution might sound like an unusual approach to coping with the affliction but I'd suggest bribing your family member with a new custom built Kentucky long rifle. Call it a dangling carrot if you will. Make an agreement that in order to get this new and exciting centerpiece to their already huge collection of ML firearms, they simply must spend some time with the family. Mow the knee high grass in front of the house, or fix the gapping hole in the roof that wildlife use. I wish you all luck with this crippling desease. I'm off to the range to get my fix. I always wanted to be 119 (so I could have gotten my guns when they were affordable.)
Mine started with an 1863 Sharps carbine, then the 1863 safe queen 3 band. Then the Smith carbine and the 1863 I got on GB and turned out to be a 45 caliber. Was supposed to be a 54. Then I just had to have the Cimarron Whitneyville ( it was a steal )! It goes on and on.
Wait until you try a cannon. black powder in large doses
My addiction has gotten pretty bad as well. I found a good deal on an 1858 yesterday that I just "Had to have because I only have Colt style revolvers and I need a Remington!"
Well after I brought it home the wife wasn't as enthusiastic as I was, so I asked if she was mad. She said "Do the dishes and take the trash out and I'll forget all about it."
I'm lucky to have a good woman to help enable my addiction.
"Do the dishes and take the trash out and I'll forget all about it."
I'll take that deal any day!
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you can never be too rich,
too thin,
or have too many flintlocks
too thin,
or have too many flintlocks
Shooter1
40 Cal
Do hate attitude of some folks who think they can't be to rich....agree with the rest.
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Capnball sums it up so well ,Cant say I ever suffered from being too rich in money but am rich in expeirences in life and a lot of it involved black powder .Ime happily hooked and don't like Turkey hot or cold .
Rudyard
Rudyard
hanshi
Cannon
We try to tell them that even percussion guns aren't safe. Percussion guns are a "gateway" into flintlocks. I seem to remember hearing one guy post that he was well satisfied with his final battery of around 30 or so muzzleloaders. Personally, I think he was lying. Once on the hard stuff (flintlocks) there's no way out.
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I thought I had this problem under control. Hadn't added to the arsenal in over a year. Heck, I even gave up drinking gunpowder tea. After all, I told myself, I was already better equipped than the men at the Alamo or King's Mountain.
But pushers of the demon guns are everywhere, hidden until they pop out with their temptations. First there was the unfired T/C Seneca with both 32 and 45 barrels, still in the original boxes. The asking price about half what they are worth. (A sure sign of the pusher.) Then came the swap meet where 99.9999% of the items were not muzzleloading related. But there it was, carefully placed to catch the addict's eye, a Euroarms Rogers and Spencer 44 C&B in great condition. Again, the price was too good to ignore and the seller even included his favorite accurate load. He said he wanted it to go to someone who would use and appreciate it. I recognized the ploy but was weak that day and it followed me home. I almost sobbed as I wiped it down with with an oily cloth.
I thought that would be the end of the terror for the year but fate had other plans to test my resolve. Just recently the bulletin board in the club's public room listed a Ruger Old Army, one of my many, many weaknesses. Like a fool I called the number 'for information only', or so I told myself. It was the worst possible news. The revolver was in mint or near mint condition, possibly unfired. The deal included the original box, a good holster Ruger used to sell, several hundred round ball and percussion caps. I've seen deals like this go for about $900. He wanted about half that, the fiend! Yes, I failed the test, again. But I'm learning to live with my lack of resolve.
Stay strong, even if I can't. I'll try to cover my shame in the smoke and aroma of black powder.
Jeff
But pushers of the demon guns are everywhere, hidden until they pop out with their temptations. First there was the unfired T/C Seneca with both 32 and 45 barrels, still in the original boxes. The asking price about half what they are worth. (A sure sign of the pusher.) Then came the swap meet where 99.9999% of the items were not muzzleloading related. But there it was, carefully placed to catch the addict's eye, a Euroarms Rogers and Spencer 44 C&B in great condition. Again, the price was too good to ignore and the seller even included his favorite accurate load. He said he wanted it to go to someone who would use and appreciate it. I recognized the ploy but was weak that day and it followed me home. I almost sobbed as I wiped it down with with an oily cloth.
I thought that would be the end of the terror for the year but fate had other plans to test my resolve. Just recently the bulletin board in the club's public room listed a Ruger Old Army, one of my many, many weaknesses. Like a fool I called the number 'for information only', or so I told myself. It was the worst possible news. The revolver was in mint or near mint condition, possibly unfired. The deal included the original box, a good holster Ruger used to sell, several hundred round ball and percussion caps. I've seen deals like this go for about $900. He wanted about half that, the fiend! Yes, I failed the test, again. But I'm learning to live with my lack of resolve.
Stay strong, even if I can't. I'll try to cover my shame in the smoke and aroma of black powder.
Jeff
When you come to a fork in the road, take it...Yogi
We did and wound up moving to the Ozark mountains, in the middle of 60 acre woods. Now I just step out onto the deck and shoot to my hearts content. Addicted? I don't think so, can quit any time I want.
I have even gifted two percussion rifles to help with their addiction, and still have 37 at last count and the flintlocks are gaining in the count.
Bob McBride
54 Cal.
Your place sounds like mine. Heaven....
Once the rocks get you, it's all over
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Nah its when your making arquebusses & thinking about hand cannons THEN you'v hit bottom ! Rudyard
