I've always been a history buff...Going back to elementary school I read every biography we had in the library, never cared for fiction...Growing up in the 60s I watched Daniel Boone every week...When I was 22 I moved to Atlanta and walked into a gun shop run by Bob Watts...Bob made Kentucky rifles...He showed me one and I bought it on the spot...

There is nothing like carrying a flintlock rifle hunting, sighting down the barrel and touching her off...I still remember my first shot with one which happened over 35 years ago...I still enjoy the sound of a properly loaded longrifle, ain't nothing else like it...

These guns speak to me, Boone, Kenton, Crockett, Carson, Bridger, Lewis & Clark and even George Washington used these guns...In fact, Jefferson once complained that Patrick Henry enjoyed deer hunting too much and it got in the way of his work...Seems to me Patrick Henry might have had his priorities right...

Its giving the deer the upper hand with one shoot to take him and not knowing what the gun my do at that time but for me its on my side just about everytime almost and its the joy of something differant and having that one flyer in the group and saying what happend and looking to see what went wrong and there so much fun going to the range and out shooting a centerfire WITH A MUZZLELOADER theres more to the joy but live some for someone else to say more power to muzzleloaders