Hey y'all. As you can see this is my first post here. I've been looking to see if there are any shooters of these weapons, but my computer is so slow.....
Anyway, my roommate just got a beautiful double-barrel BP shotgun and I was wondering if any of y'all hunt with these. We haven't shot it yet, but (I'm buying one also) we plan on hunting dove, turkey, and maybe deer with it.
We both have 20 years experience shooting muzzleloading rifles, so we aren't total newbies at it. This year I took a buck and a doe with my Knight MK-85 with iron sights. God I love that gun!
Thanks, y'all.........Keith

I have a CVA 12 ga. double. I only use it to turkey hunt with.my wife hunted deer and hogs with it till I got her an inline 45 cal.
works great for all if you know your range.

I let my fingers do the walking, and found a guy in a gunshop who shoots one. He hooked me up with the website he orders from. They had great info...pretty much all I was looking for plus some tips you would only learn through experience. I'm not sure of the rules on this site about posting other websites...so I won't unless someone asks me to. Thanks Tree climber. We have winter turkey season opening Saturday. I shot a nice Tom last spring with my 870. The thing of it was it was the last day of the season, on gamelands and turkey were everywhere. Even more special was I shot it only 3 months after severly breaking my back. They removed a rib and made a new vertabrae. I could barely walk. I had one friend carry my gun and another carry a folding camp style reclining chair, and I sat behind a blind and called him in..my first turkey. Looking back on it, it blows my mind. I could literally barely walk..still have trouble. But with the game I shot my friends think my doctor used a horseshoe for the metal in my back. My neurosurgeon is an avid hunter and it amazed him as well, especially since he didn't get a turkey last season.
I'm looking forward to swapping stories as well......Keith

turkey hunting is a great sport. Hope you're back ishealing well. Congratulations on the bird and welcome to the forum. It's good to have new people. I personally bird hunt with a single shot smoothbore .62 caliber smooth bore. It is a 20 gauge but it will take a bird at 30 yards if you head shoot it. It will also shoot roundball reasonably well out to 40 yards. For bird shooting you drop 80 grains of Goex 2f down the bore the an over the powder card. Next goes down a fiber wad. On top of that I pour 100 grains of #6 shot and finally two over the shot cards (you only need one, but I always use two). Put a cap on the back nipple and let them get close. It makes hunting a lot of fun. With the new big snow today, I might go bunny hunting this weekend with it and see if I can spook up a snowshoe bunny.