It’s getting pretty bad!

[rp77469]

I spent 4 hours checking out the Knoxville TN gun show Saturday while wearing this sign (tastefully and frugally made from the side of a 24 pack of Coke Zero). ONE PERSON came up and talked with me about black powder and muzzleloading. There were over a thousand people there, no one was interested in muzzleloaders.

 

[Ed C.]

I spent 4 hours checking out the Knoxville TN gun show Saturday while wearing this sign (tastefully and frugally made from the side of a 24 pack of Coke Zero). ONE PERSON came up and talked with me about black powder and muzzleloading. There were over a thousand people there, no one was interested in muzzleloaders.

But at the range, when you pull the trigger and that rolling boom echos off the berm and the cloud of BP smoke drifts across the lanes....well, that gets some attention from all those unmentionable shooters.

 

[Muzzle57]

For me, here is why: I spent a lifetime working hard, pinching pennies, not purchasing the "feel good" stuff. Now I can finally spend some of that money. Can't do a lot of that young guy fun stuff so now if I see something I want and have a few cents in the bank, I get it. He who dies with the most toys, wins!

He who moves in after the one with the most toys dies wins

 

[Ed C.]

He who moves in after the one with the most toys dies wins

That's cheating!

 

[Flint Striker]

If it helps anyone, Natchez has a discount code for free hazmat until midnight on 2/28. Looks like they have musket caps, but pretty thin otherwise.

 

[smo]

I'll point out, I was always well prepared for shortages anyway. I have over many years over bought for everything preparing for just such times as some people are seeing today.

A Man must be prepared for hard times…

See Also:why do old guys collect so much stuff?

We’ve had more time than the younger ones….

 

[appalichian hunter]

Want a gun, make a gun.

Stop relying on manufacturers to do it for you.

Would that be considered a ghost muzzle loader,

 

[64Springer]

Would that be considered a ghost muzzle loader,

GML

 

[dave951]

But at the range, when you pull the trigger and that rolling boom echos off the berm and the cloud of BP smoke drifts across the lanes....well, that gets some attention from all those unmentionable shooters.

Oh yeah, and when the tacticool types gawk at my smoking musket I just smile and say- old school assault rifle, model 1862 any questions.

 

[Johnny Tremain]

Would that be considered a ghost muzzle loader,

In some states Yes
They have to go thru an FFL for black powder stuff.
They are real afraid of holy black for some reason.
My Rice barrel has no numbers on it. The Rice logo is on the bottom flat, glassed into the wood.
By their definition it is a Casper.
50 cal is a dreaded word, they dont know the difference between a Ma Duce and a Hawkins 50 cal.

 

[Boomerang]

What do you need? Maybe someone here can direct you to a source.

I don't really need anything. I'm just stating what I see happening. We are going to have to be more self reliant and make the things that we need instead of depending on companies that we use to rely on to supply us with them. Kind of like the times when our original guns were made in the 17 and 18 hundreds.

 

[ernbar]

If it helps anyone, Natchez has a discount code for free hazmat until midnight on 2/28. Looks like they have musket caps, but pretty thin otherwise.

They have those specials often. A few weeks ago they were running it and ordered powder and large pistol primers. Not paying the hazmat fee helps.

 

[ernbar]

I spent 4 hours checking out the Knoxville TN gun show Saturday while wearing this sign (tastefully and frugally made from the side of a 24 pack of Coke Zero). ONE PERSON came up and talked with me about black powder and muzzleloading. There were over a thousand people there, no one was interested in muzzleloaders.

I have been two a couple of huge gun shows lately having tons of vendors, but not a single muzzle loading item anywhere to be seen.

 

[Mrg5]

See Also:why do old guys collect so much stuff?

It’s not that old guys collect so much stuff. They collect the same amount as anyone else. It’s just that they have been doing it a lot longer.

 

[Trooper]

It’s getting pretty hard trying to find items for muzzle loading in stock any more. I think we will need to learn how to make things that we need, like they used to.

We are having the same issues up here in canukastan. I thought it was our border control preventing ammunition from coming up from the US. Now that I’m hearing from you folks that begs the question, why the shortages?

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

It’s not that old guys collect so much stuff. They collect the same amount as anyone else. It’s just that they have been doing it a lot longer.

I know, im one of them....SM

 

[halman]

I have been two a couple of huge gun shows lately having tons of vendors, but not a single muzzle loading item anywhere to be seen.

I attended one last Sunday, saw two very old revolvers, two flintlocks. Other than that all I saw was two tins of #10 Remington caps, which I grabbed. That vendor had no other bp stuff at all.

 

[Mrg5]

I know, im one of them....SM

So am I. I was recently talking to a somewhat younger friend about an estate sale we were going to. He jokingly remarked, “well you have a lot of great stuff. I hope I’m around for your estate sale”.

 

[FishDFly]

I don't really need anything. I'm just stating what I see happening. We are going to have to be more self reliant and make the things that we need instead of depending on companies that we use to rely on to supply us with them. Kind of like the times when our original guns were made in the 17 and 18 hundreds.

The sky is not falling.

 

[appalichian hunter]

The sky is not falling.

Something to think about, when the socialist guys ban imports of weapons from other countries (un-mentionable) wonder if the black powder weapons will be in effect compromised. It's coming. to the point that these folks realize they will never get all weapons so there cinching up the noose one step at a time. To restrict the numbers available. Examples are cap, powder availability for us. Then there are the shortages for ammo, ammo components and other things related to modern firearms. So, in a sense the sky is not falling especially if your head is in the sand and we just wander about thinking only about the hobby we peruse, not looking outside the box so to speak at the picture in a whole perspective.