1) How much do you spend in ammo, black powder and cleaning supplies to keep your shooting edge each week?
2) How many shots do you get out of Black horn 209 (10 ounce bottle)?
3) Who uses sandbags to sight in gun and how do you use them?
4) Do you shoot 200 yard targets regularly and effectively? Would you be confident taking a deer at that range with little wind?
5) Whats the best solvent for BH 209?
6) How fast can you load BP between shots hunting from a stand?
7) What kind of rest do you use when taking long shots Hunting?
1) Presently $5 a week. I shoot three outing a year, all in support of hunting. A mix of traditional and modern muzzleloading, with about 2/3 being traditional.
2) I only use blackpowder.
3) Under the forend only, between the forend and a rest.
4) No. I still hunt in thick eastern forest. The few times I see an animal across a pasture or field, I pass.
5) See question 2.
6) I only hunt on the ground. Got off three rounds, killing 2 deer with a flintlock in under 2 minutes, laying down behind a deadfall.
7) I seek some sort of rest with any shot beyond spitting distance. I will using whatever is handy, a kneeling position, tree limbs, tree trunks, rocks, to prone.