I started shooting a muzzle loader the morning after I saw Jeremiah Johnson while stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC in 1973. Went out with another Marine and bought a T/C Hawken in .50. A few weeks later I was back at PI and discovered the Low Country Bark Busters who gave me the name Iron Bear.
I shot the T/C until I was assigned to Seal Beach, CA in '75 and started working weekends and time off at The Flintlock at Hobby City in Anaheim. I left the Corps in '78 but I worked full and part time at The Flintlock for the next 12 1/2 years and upgraded to a Lyman Great Plains rifle in about 1978. Our club in those days was the Golden Bears and we did most of out shooting at the old Isaac Walton League range in Placentia.
In '93 I discovered SASS and signed up under the name Forty Rod and the muzzle loaders got put on a back burner until about six months ago when I pulled the .50 down and got her cleaned up again. I'm putting my kit together and will be looking for a local club. I suspect I'll have a lot of questions since so much has changed since I was "an expert" working at a gun shop that sold nothing but muzzle loaders and related truck and duffle.
I shot the T/C until I was assigned to Seal Beach, CA in '75 and started working weekends and time off at The Flintlock at Hobby City in Anaheim. I left the Corps in '78 but I worked full and part time at The Flintlock for the next 12 1/2 years and upgraded to a Lyman Great Plains rifle in about 1978. Our club in those days was the Golden Bears and we did most of out shooting at the old Isaac Walton League range in Placentia.
In '93 I discovered SASS and signed up under the name Forty Rod and the muzzle loaders got put on a back burner until about six months ago when I pulled the .50 down and got her cleaned up again. I'm putting my kit together and will be looking for a local club. I suspect I'll have a lot of questions since so much has changed since I was "an expert" working at a gun shop that sold nothing but muzzle loaders and related truck and duffle.