View Poll Results: Average age of muzzleloader shooter
Under 20
0
0%
20 to 34
12
13.79%
35 to 49
25
28.74%
50 to 64
38
43.68%
65 and older
12
13.79%
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average age of muzzleloder shooter
02-22-2012, 01:09 PM
#31
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 9,557
I would rather not divulge personal information such as my age on the internet, but, I ordered my first muzzle loader about 26 years ago. It was a cannon. For some reason shooting that thing was such a thrill I told my wife I wanted to try shooting a muzzle loader rifle. That Christmas there was a .50 caliber Thompson Center Hawkins kit and a .32 caliber CVA Pioneer pistol kit under the tree. I'm afraid there has been no turning back from there. Damn that canon! I should take it out and shoot it some time. I did vote my age group on the poll though.
Beats me?
02-22-2012, 02:10 PM
#32
Spike
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 19
Have been using ML for something over 30 yrs. I use them in Deleware in ML and shotgun seasons(no rifles allowed).
02-22-2012, 02:29 PM
#33
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: arkansas
Posts: 3,163
I'm 47 and bought my first ML when I was 18. It was a TC Hawkens and I still have it. I haven't shot or hunted with it for several years because my eyes have a hard time seeing the iron sights. I own 5 ML's with another one on its way. Hopefully it will be here tomorrow.
02-22-2012, 03:20 PM
#34
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: MN
Posts: 254
I'll be 50 in about a month. Hunted with a muzzleloader for the first time in 1998 with a hawken. Fell in love with muzzleloaders and now the centerfire rifles never see the light of day during hunting season. I now own 3 and thats plenty for me. I have been thinking about getting a .45 cal barrel for the prohunter though.
02-22-2012, 03:24 PM
#35
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Minneapolis
Posts: 171
I'm 47 and bought my first ML when I was 18. It was a TC Hawkens and I still have it. I haven't shot or hunted with it for several years because my eyes have a hard time seeing the iron sights. I own 5 ML's with another one on its way. Hopefully it will be here tomorrow.
02-22-2012, 04:50 PM
#37
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 1,392
Wrong side of 50 for me.
Got my first ML'er, a TC Renegade .50 caplock back in 86'. One if not the only lefthand guns at the time. Mainly used it for plinking. Got a lot of razzing in the hunt camp over it so I really never hunted with it much. The Army was taking up a lot of prime hunting time back then so when I did hunt it was usually with the Win 94. Now I have the time and resources but as a dogger most the time (still), I still carry the 94. When I do get to sit I'm carrying the GPR now.
I got myself a 50 and a 54 GPR flintlocks. A 50 TC Renegade. A pair of Lyman Deer Stalkers flintlocks LH and RH for my boy's. An Omega rounds them out. Just sold a Traditions Lightening Bolt to my neighbour to get him started.
Got my first ML'er deer with the Omega.....Too much like a center fire for me so it hasn't seen much shooting time since.
HA
Got my first ML'er, a TC Renegade .50 caplock back in 86'. One if not the only lefthand guns at the time. Mainly used it for plinking. Got a lot of razzing in the hunt camp over it so I really never hunted with it much. The Army was taking up a lot of prime hunting time back then so when I did hunt it was usually with the Win 94. Now I have the time and resources but as a dogger most the time (still), I still carry the 94. When I do get to sit I'm carrying the GPR now.
I got myself a 50 and a 54 GPR flintlocks. A 50 TC Renegade. A pair of Lyman Deer Stalkers flintlocks LH and RH for my boy's. An Omega rounds them out. Just sold a Traditions Lightening Bolt to my neighbour to get him started.
Got my first ML'er deer with the Omega.....Too much like a center fire for me so it hasn't seen much shooting time since.
HA
02-22-2012, 04:55 PM
#38
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Hamilton, OH
Posts: 456
Im a youngin! Just 25 here... I hunt with a friend and his kids and they all Muzzleload, and they got me into it and now Im hooked, so the reason I got into it was so Id have a few more weeks of gun season for deer.
My friends son that I hunt with, (he actually takes me out most of the time), is only 14 and is hardcore! He shoots Coyotes at 200 yards all day long with his CVA.
My friends son that I hunt with, (he actually takes me out most of the time), is only 14 and is hardcore! He shoots Coyotes at 200 yards all day long with his CVA.
02-22-2012, 05:24 PM
#39
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1,482
Let's just say I'm older than MD54, but younger than a lot of the other guys out there. I own only 3 muzzleloaders, looking to expand my collection in the years to come.
As for the average age of the muzzy shooter, most of the people I know just use a muzzy once or twice a year to extend their hunting season. Ages are all over the place - from my cousin's kid who took his first deer with a muzzy when he was 8 years old, to some guys I know in their 60's and early 70's.
However, the average age of the muzzleloader fanatic (as opposed to the muzzleloader opportunistic hunting) tends to be, well, let's just say on the well-seasoned side....
I'm the only person I know even close to my age that has multiple rifles and spends time at the range shooting for fun and working up different loads for fun.
As for the average age of the muzzy shooter, most of the people I know just use a muzzy once or twice a year to extend their hunting season. Ages are all over the place - from my cousin's kid who took his first deer with a muzzy when he was 8 years old, to some guys I know in their 60's and early 70's.
However, the average age of the muzzleloader fanatic (as opposed to the muzzleloader opportunistic hunting) tends to be, well, let's just say on the well-seasoned side....
I'm the only person I know even close to my age that has multiple rifles and spends time at the range shooting for fun and working up different loads for fun.
02-22-2012, 05:34 PM
#40
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Va
Posts: 89
My wife gave me my 1st mz some 18-20 yrs ago for Christmas, an i've been hooked ever since.i'll be 45 this march an i'm hoping for a left hand renegade mz, but we'll see on that.i've traded/sold many mz over the years, all but the 1st one my wife gave me that Christmas..