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Post by WVHunter129 on Apr 8, 2005 14:51:09 GMT -5
What does everyone consider to be a traditional muzzleloader?
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Post by DaveHawk on Apr 9, 2005 7:43:31 GMT -5
WV, Flint Lock , breatches, hunting shirt, flint and steel, round ball, hawk and knife,
WV, I did F&I for 15 years, Built a few Flint lock , turned and mapped a few horns, primers and day horns, made allot of my clothing. I tried to stay in period the best I could.
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Post by eshoremd on Apr 16, 2005 17:55:29 GMT -5
whats f&i?
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Post by freedomrules3 on Apr 16, 2005 23:01:02 GMT -5
Todd, Dave used to do the french /indian war re-enactments. very interesting if you ever get the chance to go to any type re-enactment, civil war or f&i. gets a bit expensive though from my understanding to participate. I've been to about 10 civil war ones including Gettysburg's 200th anniversary. I thought the South was gonna finally pull it off this time .
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Post by DaveHawk on Apr 19, 2005 11:39:36 GMT -5
Todd, I'll see if I can find pictures of the F&I events I went too, Yes it is costly and very time comsuming. But the guys you meet and run with are great to camp with. FYI; civil war in modren compaired to F&I. Period encampments are thought to be pre-1830, befor cap locks came about.
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Post by Rock Chuck on Apr 24, 2005 7:36:21 GMT -5
A lot of guys, like me, have sidelocks but don't get into the clothing, etc. Mine is a T/C Hawken caplock that I build from a kit years ago. Here in the west, caplocks were more common because much of the area from the Rockies and west were explored and settled much later than the east and midwest. In fact, south central Idaho, where I live, wasn't even settled until the Cary Act opened much of the land for homesteading AFTER 1900. We have mountainman groups who hold rendevous every year and caplocks are common because many trappers used them. The switch from flint to caps was sporatic. Some trappers prefered caps because they were more reliable and water resistant. Others prefered flint because if you ran out of or lost your caps, your gun became little more than a pry bar.
Dick
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Post by WVHunter129 on Apr 24, 2005 13:45:16 GMT -5
Well rockchuck, I hope I don't start a gun war with this, I believe that a traditional muzzleloader (in todays times) for hunting is a flintlock or percussion cap side hammer muzzleloader without the use of a scope. Now that is my personal feeling and there are those who probably disagree with me.
Todays new muzzleloaders (inlines) and the States allowing the use of scopes makes me feel that I might as well go with my rifle. The new inlines are so accurate now along with the scopes that they can shoot well past a 100 yards. And they have developed so much where you can use shotgun primers that the ole days of a misfire are about gone.
Here is WV the muzzleloader season use to be called the primitive rifle season. I always felt that hunting this way really made you a hunter. You really had to work on your skills.
So for me when I think of traditional muzzleloaders I think of the flintlock and the percussion cap muzzleloaders.
Oh, my muzzleloader is a Traditions 50 cal with the double triggers.
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Post by DaveHawk on Apr 27, 2005 18:41:46 GMT -5
If you go to an F&I shoot or a Rev war shoot in period garb and if you happen to have a tie between a flint lock and a cap gun, the flint lock always take to 1st.
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