Cayugad has got me sctatching
 

at an itch that I just can't decide on.

I curse him for showing the link for TVM and thanking him in the same breath. What's a guy to do? :rant::rock::confused:

I want a full stock rifle. It has to be left handed and that site has several.

My delimma. I can't decide on caliber. If I get it for hunting deer and bear I will lean towards the .54 mainly because I have the fixin's for a 54. I have several 50's but only one 54. If i get one just for small game and target work then I was thinking of a 32 or 36. I like to shoot most weekend when I can so one of the light calibers might be the way to go. A 45 might just solve everything. It would be legal for deer, a tad small for bear and ok for bunnies and grouse. If I get it for an ornament to pass down then caliber would not matter (but I can't see me buying a wall flower).

Decisions , decisions......:(

It all might be a moot point. I sent TVM an email to see if they shipped to Canada. We have no restrictions on flintlocks and last I checked neither does the USA. I;ll wait for their reply. Until then, damm that cayugad guy!!!:guiness:

HA

LOL Dave has a way of getting people interested in them smoke belching stinky coal burners.

I won"t even look I know me too good!! The rolling pin bump from the last gun just went down.

Thanks a lot guys this "itch is spreading faster than CWD
daddus

I showed the Missus a few pictures lamenting on what beautiful rifles they were. She sort of walked away with the laundry mumbling something. I told it would be my last. She all smart alecy and such replied "Hmmph, Ya right." rolled her eye's and left me in the basement.

I'll take that as an OK honey go get it!!!!:biggrin:

Man I love my own company!!!:guiness:

HA

I wonder what it is that makes us want to keep buying more guns?

Don't know but my boy's will be happy when they're all theirs.

HA

Funny you should put it that way. Not to get political but a couple of weeks ago I bought an AR for my daughter. She is only 6 so the rifle is going to be a safe queen until she is old enough for it. I sure hope she grows to enjoy muzzle loading! :)

I inherited quite a few Muzzle loaders. I am taking my grandchildren out this summer and we will shoot. Maybe I can spark some interest.

JW

I started with a .45 in 1977, thought it was the do all caliber...Load down for squirrels and up for deer...Didn't really work out that way...I used 40grs FFF Goex for squirrels and took head shots...Well a head shot works with any caliber...I moved up to 75grs FFF Goex for deer and it worked fine...

Then I had and encounter with a bear, a dang big black bear!!! I was considering a .50 and it took me just a few minutes to decide on a .54...I have no reqrets on caliber....I've used that .54 since 1990 and it does a job on whitetails...

The .45??? I ordered a barrel from Ed Rayle in .40 caliber and rebarreled her...I use 30grs FFF for squirrels and it's a hoot...I've also worked up a double ball load with 60grs that I'm playing with...So far, they are hitting on top of or very close to each other...

Here is my .40...I bought her in 1977 from Bob Watts, then in Atlanta...He is written up in Foxfire V...This stock design is better for the smaller calibers...





And here is my .54. more of the early Lancaster design with a straighter butt stock and wider butt plate...She weighs about 9 pounds, heavy enough that you don't feel the kick...




This is what a .530 patched ball did to an 8 pointer this year...I use 80grs FFF Goex...Range was about 40 yards... :)




This buck was killed on public lands the first day of rifle season...You should have seen the fellow I met on the way out with his 30-06 Remington semi-auto...He was dragging a button buck that might have field dressed out at 40 pounds...I had hung this deer, called him in and deboned him and loaded him him into my back pack and was coming out with him...I had cut off the antlers and had them strapped to my pack... :)