Breechplug,

I started hunting with a muzzleloader in 1978, it was a .45 H&A Underhammer, I still have the action and it is now a .58. I rebarreled it myself. in 98

No I have never had to worry about my Guns going Bang even in the pouring rain, I used all kinds of nipple protectors. Rubber gloves, finger cots. I have hunted in the pouring rain, did so this year with the Rolling Block. Had electrical tape on the muzzle when I shot the following deer.

I have hunted with my own cast Balls and Boolitze in ML since 78 also. I now cast a very efficient 333 gr LFN that shoots well in the Harvester Black short sabot. ( I buy Sabots by the case from graf and sons, I have a case and a half of them in the basement closet right now, Doesn't everybody! )

I haven't carried any of my large selection of Center fires or scope sighted customized pump 12 gauges hunting since 98, took a Antelope in WY with my 58 Underhammer at over 150 yards with a RB. I have a 500 grain Boolit mold comming for my BMGs so I may do some long range hunting with one of them at the farm this coming year. Also looking at a 840 gr mold in .514 also. We do have a 1000 yard range at the farm and shooting is a recreation for us. It is 1000 yards from the Power pole left side of photo to the center of the tree line in the distant field. John Eggleston, ( editor of "Very High Power" the Quarterly rag of the 50BMG shooters ass.) even Laser Ranged it when we were talking about having a 1000 yard practice match at the farm. we have gongs in the tree line, targets from 500 to 1000.


There is a gong in the tree line in this photo, it is 183 yards from the window. We have a target setup just before the snow along the right side of the tree line that is at 225 yards. the far bank of the frozen pond is 335 Yards.


This is a photo of my 200 yard range behind my house, I have 2 benches here this is my close bench the other is 50 yards farther back, this is 103 yards, there is a down tree behind the freezer full of sand that is 150 yards from this bench. The tree is bloking the veiw, the second freezer is just above the brown one showing


I drifted to inlines in 2003, and to Smokeless in 2008.

I built my own Smokeless gun including the breech plug last winter (2008) and Killed three deer with it this last season (2009) including this 8 Pt in the wet rainy snow. It was the last weekend of regular season do you remember the rain.






This is a Nice Doe I took, it was snowing hard when I harvested it, the White specs are snow flakes in the air.


These are less than perfect Photos from my Phone.