why are they so addicting
 

I know some of you have many muzzleloaders and when I bought my first You all warned me that it gets addicting but I was wondering if anyone knows why it is so addicting? I look at muzzleloaders online almost every day, Every time I go to cabelas or gander mountain, I pick up every muzzleloader and play with em. I have a list of muzzleloaders i need to buy. I am not saying i want to find a cure I am just wondering who has a theory why.

RE: why are they so addicting
 

all little boys like noise makers that have a loud noise, lots of smoke, and make big holes in things with lots of power. We're just reliving out childhood. :D

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They is worse than wimmen! They feel good, smell good, and if you your part, They perform up to your expectations!! If you leave them in the corner, they don't bother you at all, for a while! Then they start naggin, I can do better if you do this , or better if you do that!! It' a bad habit!! But I am hooked!! Welcome to the addiction!!

RE: why are they so addicting
 

The same reason that those of us who go to manual transmission cars never go back....more control, closer to the action. Cartridge guns, unless you reload, have little of the control and mystique.

Plus, MLing feels a lot more like playing with explosives. Big cool factor.

My addiction started with the ML pistol I built in junior high. Pretty ingenious looking back...and also lucky my right arm is still attached at the shoulder (I was using smokeless!!!! Survival of the luckiest I guess)

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ive done good though i only bought 3 in the three years i have been shooting but i have one comming for christmas and i am saving my pennys for eather a white or a knight disc extreme

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I suppose there are a great many reasons and each of us has somthing different. I like the feeling of the one shot thing although I never shot more than once with a shotgun.The satisfaction of having worked up a good load for your particular gun. I always enjoyed catching trout more on flies that I tied myself rather than one machine tied in East whateverstan. Even Orvis imports some of their patterns now. I just feel different carrying a MZ(don,t know how to 'Splain it.)

Charlie

I like the loud noise smoke and big hole thing too

RE: why are they so addicting
 

I guess everyone has their own reasons. Mine is that I like the challenge. I'm mostly a traditional ML shooter (except for my recent Genesis buy), and open sights. I especially like the flinters. My opinion is that anyone who is a semi-decent shot can kill an animal at 300 yds with a scopedcenterfire rifle. I like getting close, (I guess that's why I like archery too). The adreneline pumping when an animal is in spitting distance and hoping he doesn't see you until its too late.
Oh yeah, and I like the bang and the smoke too.

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To slightly misquote Alfred Lord Tennyson's famous poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade." -Ours not to reason why. Ours isbut to shop and buy.

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good one semisane

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I have 3...

A Knight Disc, that I haven't loaded the past 3 seasons and 2 custom flintlocks, one a .54 and one a .40...So my "needs" are met...

It will be awhile for me, mainly because my next will be a Jim Chambers and they are about a thousand bucks...I'm in the middle of getting 3 daughters through college and married, so I stay broke...:D

For some reason, factory made muzzle loaders just don't do anything for me...I've never owned a factory made side hammer...The Knight is a heck of a rifle, but it's really close to using a center fire...

When I kill a deer with the flintlock that I made, with a ball I made, I know I've done something special...

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AHHH the smoke and loud bangs. It's very addictive. We all tinker and that's fuel for the sport. We all want the best for our guns (children) so we do our best and if that means more guns then so be it.

RE: why are they so addicting
 

Because they are a 1 shot ballistics lab and you can tinker without spending thousands on cars. Women have shoes and cloths or horses if they are rich, guys have either cars, guns or farms. As for why--- the Bible says it is the "lust of the flesh or foolish pride of life", that should cover it. However the Bible says that a righteous man keeps all his things in good condition and his house if filled with treasures, so using this scripture as a theory I believe it is we are filling our house with our treasures (I have several guns in various corners of the house, leaning up against the wall, no gun safe or whatever). So those are my two theories on addiction of MLing, tis better than booze or work-a-holic, and if God is not 100% grace, then I go to hell.
Chap

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I started last year. I own 7 total rifles. 5 of which are muzzleloaders. 2 sidelocks and 3 inlines. tinkering with my tc new englander now. had FG do work on my cva hawkens.

maybe in a few years I will have to half the amount of muzzys that cayugad has lol

RE: why are they so addicting
 

Yea, the bang and the smoke and the hole, all good fun.....


...but the cleaning! I try not to shoot it.

RE: why are they so addicting
 

There must be crack in the smoke... J/K I know what you mean. I think it's rewarding to take a gun and figure out what it likes and shoots best. I also like making big holes in things, and I find muzzleloading more challanging then picking up a rifle and putting at cartridge in.

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It's all about the smoke.

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Bout 35 years ago, my dad, brother, several friends and I used to go out to this old field next to a railroad right of way and shoot clay pigeons with shotguns. Did this every weekend for a while. Several time these two guys would come out and shoot these .58 zouves at targets they set up on a telegraph post next to the rail line,I loved the smell of the BP and the novelty of shooting that way. I thought it was so cool, didn't know you could still get guns like that. Well that christmas my dad got me a .45 derringer kit from CVA. We put that together and shot it a lot, what fun for a 14 year old. I was then addicted.

Got a double bbl 12 made in India after that, .54 TC renegade (good for shooting cinder blocks for fun) and a 1851 colt repro. all before I was 18. Broke down and finally went inline with an A/H 420, than I got one of their Mountain rifles (shame they went out of business) Now I want to get a flint hawken kit from Track of the wolf.

Oh, those two guys with the zouves. They ended up cutting down the telegraph pole with their minnies and the sheriff closed the site to further shooting.

Happy day to you all, I hope all of you have a merry Christmas, thank God for the birth of our Savior.