Amusing/Ridiculous Muzzleloading Misconceptions...

[Zonie]

While I was at the local shooting range one day, loading my rifle, a couple of guys came up to watch.
When I started raming the ball down the barrel one of them said to the other, "Talk about a waste of time! Shooting one of them guns makes as much sense as fly fishing."

After pulling the ramrod out of the barrel I looked at the guy and said, "I like fly fishing too."
They both turned and walked off in disgust.

 

[Eterry]

I built my 1st muzzleloader in my 8th grade shop class. The science teacher, who had a mounted buck on the wall in his class, heard of this. One day he asked what I was building. I told him a 45 caliber Kentucky rifle. He said the 45 was too small to kill anything. That was upsetting for a 14 year old to hear this.

But what really used to tick me off was any time I was loading my rifle some jackass would be standing there saying " the bad guys are getting closer, Closer, CLOSER!!!" Then they would go into a long dissertation about how hard it was to make it shoot and hit anything.

Once I recall after some EXPERT said how inaccurate they were I shot a finch off a tree limb about 25 yards away. I was 15 and didn't know I could miss. My dad asked him if he wanted to trade places with the bird?

 

[user 49399]

Me too Zonie. For me, loading is as enjoyable as shooting, whether it's a single shot pistol, revolver, flintlock rifle, percussion rifle or fowler, as long as it's a traditional muzzleloader. I really don't care that my home made patched round balls won't kill a deer at 50 yards.

 

[Rum River]

That rule does not apply to the muzzleloader season. Even the firearms season, all you have to do is call the DNR, and they give you a permit number. Easy peasy.

I didn't know that, but it really wasn't that big a deal.
The club range was less than 10 miles away - and my wife never would have been able to show up the other board members otherwise.

 

[CTShooter]

The one that gets me is “you have to clean your gun after every shot”

 

[Sam squanch]

Well ,I wipe the bore after every shot, but don’t clean the whole thing.

 

[tenngun]

While I was at the local shooting range one day, loading my rifle, a couple of guys came up to watch.
When I started raming the ball down the barrel one of them said to the other, "Talk about a waste of time! Shooting one of them guns makes as much sense as fly fishing."

After pulling the ramrod out of the barrel I looked at the guy and said, "I like fly fishing too."
They both turned and walked off in disgust.

Smoking a pipe, drinking a fine liquor, watching a great performance in a classic movie, reading a great book

 

[D.Summers]

I had my brother in law's son shoot my .45 longrifle. About 25 paces, first time shooter. Flintlock. He nails the cardboard target, near center. My BIL went up and examined the target. "It went thru the cardboard!! It went thru both sides! Oh, man, it went into the dirt!!" He was amazed. I believe he thought the rifle was something along the lines of a BB gun!!

 

[megasupermagnum]

I had my brother in law's son shoot my .45 longrifle. About 25 paces, first time shooter. Flintlock. He nails the cardboard target, near center. My BIL went up and examined the target. "It went thru the cardboard!! It went thru both sides! Oh, man, it went into the dirt!!" He was amazed. I believe he thought the rifle was something along the lines of a BB gun!!

What kind of BB gun doesn't go through cardboard? Many, many rabbits have been taken by my brother and I when we were kids with a cheap Crossman pump BB gun we found on the side of the road. We used to do all kinds of horrible things to that. One of my favorites was 3 BB's at once, and something like 30 pumps.

 

[D.Summers]

In the 70's, most BBs would not go thru stout cardboard at 25 paces. There was no pumping on our guns. Just cocked it. Different world, I reckon

 

[leadhoarder]

I stopped watching that show when I realized how utterly fake and staged it is. All "reality shows" are but that one is exceptionally bad..

The shop owner pretends to be an expert on everything, and the scripted dialogue is so bad it makes me cringe. Every item brought in could be on display at the Smithsonian.

If you wanted to make a real show about a pawn shop it would be people pawning a stolen tv for $15 or selling an old SKS to buy drugs.

You need to watch Detroit pawn the. Maybe it is motor city pawn?

 

[flntlokr]

Actually, the "fill the barrel with black powder" test has been done, more than once. The barrel didn't explode. It's not a myth. Look on YouTube.

Most of the powder gets shoved out the barrel ahead of the explosion and just ends up on the ground, or burning out in front.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

If you use "this lube" you will season the bore, just like seasoning a cast iron fry pan.

Ya I actually fell for that one when I first got the rifle...

 

[B P Arn]

When some sidewindin' cracker croaker asks me a dumb question or makes an absurd assertion, I reply with Authentic Frontier Gibberish:

 

[LawrenceA]

When some sidewindin' cracker croaker asks me a dumb question or makes an absurd assertion, I reply with Authentic Frontier Gibberish:

Off the subject but Gibberish is a language.
Used by the Gibbers being the natives of Gibraltar.

 

[Sam squanch]

Olsen Johnson is right!

 

[LME]

Smoking a pipe, drinking a fine liquor, watching a great performance in a classic movie, reading a great book

I can go along with the,"fine Liquor and great book" But the movie and the pipe isn't for me! LOL!

 

[Justin.44]

Smoking a pipe, drinking a fine liquor, watching a great performance in a classic movie, reading a great book

I LOVE all those things! Only problem is I love the liquor WAY too much, so I quit drinking

 

[eggwelder]

Off the subject but Gibberish is a language.
Used by the Gibbers being the natives of Gibraltar.

BAHAHAHAHA

 

[eggwelder]

Was shooting my Zouave, and hitting high. Guy said what would you kill with that?
i said paper, but it was designed to take a man`s appendage off at 200 yards, and i showed him a recovered Minni, asking if he`d ever want to be hit by that. After that he figured it would be good for moose. I let him have a shot with the giant Lee semi wad cutter -not sure how much they weigh, but take at least 2 shotgun slugs worth or lead to cast- and 100 gr of 3F...