• This community needs YOUR help today. We rely 100% on Supporting Memberships to fund our efforts. With the ever increasing fees of everything, we need help. We need more Supporting Members, today. Please invest back into this community. I will ship a few decals too in addition to all the account perks you get.



    Sign up here: https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/account/upgrades
  • Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.

    We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.

    Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103

Search results

muzzle loading side side shotguns
L & R
the hawken shop
Muzzleloading Forum

Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. K

    Coming back to Muzzleloading

    Hello people, I'm a old but new member. Well It's been a few years since I last visit this forum, and I just wanted to say I'm back. My hobby right now is photography, so some of my work has been done with night time shots, and light painting. I will do a project with a muzzle loader...
  2. K

    Weight vs Volume

    I know this subject has been talk about a lot of times, but to me there is no single answer. A lot of people use handy volume chargers to load their guns, but does what happens when you change your powder Granulation size. Then you need to adjust your power charge some way, or just get a...
  3. K

    finding 4fg blackpowder for flintlock priming

    This was very easy to fine on google. But very hard to find on any muzzleloader/gun shop. This powder is use for priming flintlocks.. With me if I had one, I would want to use the finest powder out there, for fast release of my shot.. You can still get ffffg black powder (even 5fg but only...
  4. K

    Video of me Shooting the Kentucky Pistol for New years

    It was a war zone in my neighborhood. So I took the very first shot of the year(or as close as I can get) with my .45 Cal Kentucky Pistol. It's caplock, and loaded with 35 grains of fffg goex. My camera was shooting about 25 frame a second, and I do believe I got very lucky to catch some of...
  5. K

    Quick Cheap rifle Cartridges

    Quite frankly, I'm tried of having to measure all of my powder loads while I'm out in the field. I would want to have the convinces of a cartridge, that are found in modern day guns, rather than having to measure my charges, sometimes wasting some of my powder in accentual mistake, or during...
  6. K

    how do you unload your muzzleloader?

    Question 1. How do you unload your muzzleloader without firing it? Question 2. How do you get things out of your barrel when if a part breaks off inside of your barrel? Tell me your best tactic to getting stuff out of your rifles. :v
  7. K

    Loading the Hawkins

    :hmm: I have notice on this forum that no body has written a thread showing newbies how to load your muzzleloader. And if so I never saw it. So let me be the first to share with you how I load up my muzzleloader rifle, the .50 cal Hawkins. Also, Maybe you'll have comments to aid with this...
  8. K

    Effective range for the .45

    I know the range is about 20 yards, but has any one shoot beyond that range?? :confused:
  9. K

    Effective range for the .50 cal

    I'm going to post this again in the pistol section of the forum, I hope nobody minds. The fairest I have ever shot my 50cal Hawkins was about 50 yards maybe a bit under. With just the plan sights that came with the gun( adjustable real sights), 1# how far can I shoot this gun, and what are the...
  10. K

    The Round Ball Cal

    Hey guys I found this file online, and it will calculate your trajectory of your Roundballs loads. http://www.mediafire.com/?yerezmzjmnd Download and run it. Once your in the program type in the "?" so that you can figure out how to input your data... Enjoy :thumbsup:
  11. K

    My First Hawkins .50cal gun kit

    So this gun took me a lot longer to finish than the .45 cal Single shot pistol(the Kentucky pistol). The pistol took me about three days to complete, while this Rifle took me two weeks to finish.. Nothing went wrong at all in putting this together. The colors are a bit darker red than what is...
  12. K

    Power Be hide the Black Powder .45 cal pistol

    Disclaimer: I have never shot a muzzle loader before,for what I'm about to share with you is information that was read off of the web, and should not be repeated unless you know what you are doing. I am not a pro at shooting any guns nor a noob, but I do read upon safety, loading and shooting...
  13. K

    Kentucky Pistol That I put togther

    Hello Guys, This is my first Muzzleloader kit finished. It's the .45cal Kentucky pistol. It has fixed sights, and a 1 in 16' twist 10' barrel. I'm currently putting together a Hawkins .50cal Rifle. There is to be only two questions about the pistol. First Question: One can it shoot...
Back
Top