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Austin/WI 09-08-2008 09:14 AM

RE: Greg Ritz said
 

ORIGINAL: nchawkeye

He works for T/C, he's just pushing product...

When I put down my bow, I pick up a hand made .54 caliber flintlock, shooting .530 patched balls...I can put them in an inch and a half group at
50 yards and have killed deer out to 125 yards
...A properly tuned flintlock is light years ahead of a bow...

With an inline there is even more difference...
That's pretty impressive. I think the next gun I get will probably be .54 flintlock - one of the semi-finished kit style guns from BPS, Cabelas, etc.

LKNCHOPPERS 09-08-2008 09:25 AM

RE: Greg Ritz said
 
Last year was my first year with a muzzleloader. I shot a nice buck at 15 yards, open sights, out of my bow stand in rifle season. I use it during rifle season here in NC. It is also nice to be out before the Orange Army slaughters everything in sight here.

cooter144 09-08-2008 09:29 AM

RE: Greg Ritz said
 

ORIGINAL: RockinChair

I either heard on a tv show or read in a magazine that Greg Ritz said that "muzzleloading was a mixture of bowhunting and rifle hunting... " something like that I think.

Do you agree?

When I first heard this I thought no way, but after I gave it some thought they are vaguely similar yet drastically different. One shot? Yes. "Primitave" weapon? Yes. Attention to detail? Sure. Equipment upkeep? Deffinitely.

Thoughts on this?
I saw Jim Shockey kill an animal from 260 yards with his muzzleloader.

Maybe this comparison makes a little more sense if they are using open sites on the muzzleloader?

njbuck22 09-08-2008 09:36 AM

RE: Greg Ritz said
 
With old school style muzzleloaders i could agree with it. The new ones that can shoot 2-250 yards, thats the same as rifle hunting.

Rob/PA Bowyer 09-08-2008 09:54 AM

RE: Greg Ritz said
 
Who's Greg Ritz?

And no, it's nothing like bowhunting other than a single shot at a time.

dmen 09-08-2008 10:14 AM

RE: Greg Ritz said
 
Greg Ritz is a tool on a whitetail hunting show on espn2 and I believe he is also the president of Thompson Center Arms, or one of the muzzleloading companies,

Austin/WI 09-08-2008 10:16 AM

RE: Greg Ritz said
 

ORIGINAL: dmen

Greg Ritz is a tool on a whitetail hunting show on espn2 and I believe he is also the president of Thompson Center Arms, or one of the muzzleloading companies,
I didn't think he was the Prez but I could be wrong on that one. Either way definitely a tool

dmen 09-08-2008 10:20 AM

RE: Greg Ritz said
 

Dec 21, 2006 ... Gregg Ritz, Thompson/Center's president and CEO who will become president of Smith & Wesson's hunting line, said the purchase will help the ...

I guess he used to be president before it was bought out, either way I agreestill a tool

DoePeeSteve 09-08-2008 10:23 AM

RE: Greg Ritz said
 

ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer

Who's Greg Ritz?

And no, it's nothing like bowhunting other than a single shot at a time.
I agree.

Austin/WI 09-08-2008 10:25 AM

RE: Greg Ritz said
 

ORIGINAL: dmen


Dec 21, 2006 ... Gregg Ritz, Thompson/Center's president and CEO who will become president of Smith & Wesson's hunting line, said the purchase will help the ...

I guess he used to be president before it was bought out, either way I agreestill a tool
I'll drink to that


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