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Anyone hunts with replica/original blackpowder firearms?
Anyone hunts with replica/original blackpowder firearms?
I'm planning to go hunting soon with my marlin 30-30 lever action with a scope installed. But I'm curious if anyone hunts with any replica/original blackpowder firearms. If I was to pick and have just one, it would be the 1841 SC Palmetto Mississippi rifle with a brass telescopic sight installed.
Anyone hunts with replica/original blackpowder firearms?
I'm planning to go hunting soon with my marlin 30-30 lever action with a scope installed. But I'm curious if anyone hunts with any replica/original blackpowder firearms. If I was to pick and have just one, it would be the 1841 SC Palmetto Mississippi rifle with a brass telescopic sight installed.
Have done so... whitetail deer with a replica .50 caliber Hawken. In the brushy hills and hollers of Missouri where I used to hunt any shot of more than 50 yards was a rarity and the Hawken did just fine. Hated cleaning that devil though.
You might consider Illinois to be an urban state, given that gutteral aberration up there by the lake. Here in the tullies, we have deer coming out of our ears. We have a bow season, a black-powder season, a handgun season and yet another for those in wheelchairs. Did I forget to mention slug-season? There are a few too many farm places around for rifle season. You guys with the 30-30 brush guns don't get to play. (And about three too many noodniks coming down from that gutteral aberration by the lake.)
In this part of the pond, a son gets a gun before he gets one of those little doodlers that has escaped me at the moment. (Check that. I'm not from here, but I find the good ole boys to be approximately the same as those I drag-raced with when I was a teener. I know a guy over east of me by about 20 miles that hunts with a bow, with black-powder, with a hand-gun and with slugs. From about now until somewhere near January, he'll be paying a meat processor some major dollars to make sausage and jerky and loins. Get into the country about a mile or two and you will find a freezer. (It will be full of venison and catfish.)
Upshot. Rural Illinois (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, Michigan) is no different than rural Alabama or Mississippi or Georgia. We fish and hunt and tote bales. (Here it's alfalfa, you can tote the bales of your choice.) We tend to look for differences. I'd prefer to meet the guy in Alabsma who had to get up and bale some hay.Where I grew up, a mile was about over on that hill. Being somewhat mired in a foreign nation, it is still quite remarkable that the country boys are very much the same
We have differences. We are not different. I prefer a nice lake perch to a catfish. But catfish, with some home-made hushpuppies works rather nicely.
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I have a friend that actually went deer hunting with his buddies who have all the latest gadgets, body odor block, deer urine...just everything. The interesting thing is that he is a French and Indian War reenactor and he wore his period gear armed with a .54 flintlock using none of the scent blockers and no tree stand, etc. He received the usual ribbing and the like hearing things like "You'll NEVER get a deer like that!" He picked of a large buck the first day and the others came up empty the entire weekend!
A pal keeps wanting me to come up to his place in WI to hunt deer and if I did I'd bring my '55 Springfield (repro) or my original Smith carbine if the shot was close enough.
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Here in central Indiana in the hills and cornfields, the deer are aplenty. I have two Hawken's and friends that have a few also. For that type of woods hunting in steep hills and valleys, they are great.
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520 grain .58 w/ 60 grains black powder will drop a buck. He might get back up but he''ll know he was mugged by a truck.
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I have a friend that actually went deer hunting with his buddies who have all the latest gadgets, body odor block, deer urine...just everything. The interesting thing is that he is a French and Indian War reenactor and he wore his period gear armed with a .54 flintlock using none of the scent blockers and no tree stand, etc. He received the usual ribbing and the like hearing things like "You'll NEVER get a deer like that!" He picked of a large buck the first day and the others came up empty the entire weekend!
A pal keeps wanting me to come up to his place in WI to hunt deer and if I did I'd bring my '55 Springfield (repro) or my original Smith carbine if the shot was close enough.
Hi,
You don't mean the .69 caliber round? I thought the .54 caliber didn't come around until later on. Then many of them were converted to take .58 caliber rounds.
Here in central Indiana in the hills and cornfields, the deer are aplenty. I have two Hawken's and friends that have a few also. For that type of woods hunting in steep hills and valleys, they are great.
I have some question about the hawkins' rifles. I've seen them but don't know anything about them. Would you mind giving me a short history on that rifle? It seems that more people buy the Hawkins instead of the Kentucky rifle. Are they better quality? Cheaper?
Yes the .54. Early non-military flintlock musket or rifles were almost any caliber depending on the gunsmith and ball moulds had to be made for the weapon itself. The French Charleville was .69 and the British Brown Bess was .75 but personal weapons tended to be of smaller caliber or gauge because...well, lead was expensive and a smaller projectile was cheaper to shoot. I believe he was shooting a Tulle which is 20ga or .54.
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Yes the .54. Early non-military flintlock musket or rifles were almost any caliber depending on the gunsmith and ball moulds had to be made for the weapon itself. The French Charleville was .69 and the British Brown Bess was .75 but personal weapons tended to be of smaller caliber or gauge because...well, lead was expensive and a smaller projectile was cheaper to shoot. I believe he was shooting a Tulle which is 20ga or .54.
Thank you for the information. I forgot that there was the .75 caliber round.
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Anyone hunts with replica/original blackpowder firearms? 
I forgot that there was the .75 caliber round.
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