Ratio unmentionables to BP firearms?

[nightwolf1974]

Before the 2014 house fire, the UMs outnumbered the BPGs 4 to 1 (i collected original Japanese, American, English, German, Swiss, & Russian UMs from The Boer War, WW1 & WW2)
Now it's about 50/50.....

 

[hinamanra]

I'm about even. My flintlocks took over all hunting duties.

 

[Forester]

10 to 1

 

[SwanShot]

2:1

 

[necchi]

Does one TC with four barrels count as one or four?

One. It's Not fair counting extra barrels!

 

[Bushfire]

I don’t disagree with you on the unmentionable term, I’m just following the crowd. I am too new here not to do so.

It's easy - centrefire, rimfire, 30-06. Etc.

It's not the ALR forum, your post saying "I turned my 3030 gun ammo pouch into a muzzleloading pouch" won't have the words 30-30 edited out followed by a polite pm warning from mods.

Just don't go off on a tangent discussing more modern guns and you'll be fine.

 

[Trooper]

I have 4 UM to one ML
My wife has 2 UM to 1 ML
Son 1 ML
Son in law 1 to 1

 

[andy52]

About 10-1 UM to BP. But even at that, almost all the UM are in the C&R group.

 

[kyle_kalasnik]

I’d say 3 UM for every 1BP. Although, my BP is increasing as I haven’t bought an in UM in 5 years.

I prefer everything about BP over UM.

 

[Splitear]

100 to one. Maybe 200 to 1
It's best not to count. AND, I really HATE the term " unmentionables". Let's all grow up shall we?

I agree, the correct term is “suppository firearm”.

 

[GregK]

8:1

 

[Thingamajiggy]

Too many of both if you ask my wife. Only hunt with BP anymore so it doesn't really matter to me anymore.

 

[Old Oak]

A man has to have at least one pistol, big and small bore rifle and shotgun in UM, same in BP, still dreaming of getting a fowler.

 

[Comfortably_Numb]

Do the muzzleloaders have to be built to count?. I have at least a dozen blanks with barrels inlet lined up against one wall of a bedroom.

 

[chorizo]

My Dad had a friend who used to show up every year to dove hunt on the ranch. You could ask him after he fired his first shot or after 200 shots, "How many birds you got?" and his answer was the same, ALWAYS : "One short of a limit."

I am the same in all categories of guns, ammo, and accessories...I am one short of a limit.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Modern to black powder my ownership ratio is about 2:1
USE of modern to black powder for recreational shooting and hunting..., modern to muzzleloader would be a ratio of 1:3
Hunting alone, my ration of modern to black powder for the last 25 years would be 0:3

LD

 

[painter]

I'm at 2:1 modern to muzzle loaders.

 

[longcruise]

Too many of both if you ask my wife

What i learned is that my wife sees a gun as a gun with very little ability to discern one from the other. Therefore I simply limit the number of guns that she ever sees at once.

 

[TFoley]

As I live in UK, where things are a mite different, I'm not not claiming any numbers, except to admit to some of each.

 

[Thingamajiggy]

What i learned is that my wife sees a gun as a gun with very little ability to discern one from the other. Therefore I simply limit the number of guns that she ever sees at once.

I've noticed that but eventhough she couldn't tell you how many I actually have, she'd still say it's too many. LOL.