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What are you carrying opening morning?
- Thread starter Todd Cook
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"Gabriel".
Hillbilly stalker
Senior Member
I reckon I’ll be toting “ Ol Bessie”. If it was good enough name for Fess Parker’s smoke pole.....it was good enough for mine. Dad bought her for me back around 1981 second hand from a gun store. Only opening day we ever missed is when I was overseas with Uncle Sam. She’s a .45, but if I do my job she always does hers. I have several, but there’s something special about a Kentucky long rifle to me.
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Mars
Senior Member
After seeing those beauties I'm embarrassed to even mention what I'm taking much less share a picture. I'll be using my traditions 50cal Kentucky Long Rifle kit build. It's nothing special but its fun to shoot and its reasonably accurate. Maybe one day I will get a nicer smoke pole!
Good luck and have a safe season!
Good luck and have a safe season!
Hillbilly stalker
Senior Member
Man show it ! Mine ain’t nothing fancy at all. I like seeing them, I wished I had a built one.
Mars
Senior Member
Fine. She hangs on the wall in my office with my "pursibles" bag. 
Hillbilly stalker
Senior Member
Nice ! 
jiminbogart
TCU Go Frawgs !
Don't know if I'll make it but if I do I'll be toting this.
.54 cal over and under. Pull the hammer back to half cock and rotate the bottom barrel to the top.
I guess that makes it a semi auto.
.54 cal over and under. Pull the hammer back to half cock and rotate the bottom barrel to the top.
I guess that makes it a semi auto.
Bullochcountyhunter
Senior Member
Hank. My 50 cal thompson center renegade. Not nearly as pretty as some of yalls but my first excursion into black powder. Photo is from the web, mine looks the same.
Darkhorse
Senior Member
I'll be toting my .54 caliber rifle Samantha shooting patched round balls. I built her about 20 years ago. She still looks good even after being hunted hard for the last several seasons.
This is the simple peep i use. I have one on both my flinters. Now I can see to shoot again.
This is the simple peep i use. I have one on both my flinters. Now I can see to shoot again.
trad bow
wooden stick slinging driveler
I’ll be carrying my TC Renegade 54 caliber.
frankwright
Senior Member
The Original Rooster
Mayor of Spring Hill
I'll have my Thompson Center New Englander .50 cal. with some Maxi-Hunters from @fishfryer on top of 70 grains of black powder.
Railroader
Billy’s Security Guard.
Traditions Hawken Woodsman .50, 80 gr. 3F, and a Hornady GP 385...
Todd Cook
Senior Member
I have that same exact gun Frank. That's a fine hunting gun. 70ffg, .530 ball and .015 patch is what I shoot out of it. In one side, out the other with the few I've shot with it.
Buckman18
Senior Member
I'll be toting this one, but reading yalls, as well as Nic's and Hillbillys, posts about the more traditional muzzleloaders has sparked my interest in building one of my own.
7Mag Hunter
Senior Member
40 yr old CVA 54 cal Hawken with patched round ball with 80gr Pyrodex...I converted the nipple to a hot shot type adapter to use small pistol primers....
formula1
Daily Bible Verse Organizer
I take the more modern approach. I shoot the TC Encore 50 cal, camo stock and forearm, Barnes TSX 300 grain .458 bullet with MMP Sabot, Blackhorn 209, Winchester 209 primer, topped with a Nikon 3x9 BDC scope. It's accurate to 200 yards but I just like it!
Todd Cook
Senior Member
Man it is FUN building your own! Challenging for me, but lots of fun. I've hunted with one like you've got pictured; nothing wrong with it. But there's something very nostalgic to me about my old timey guns. Same with trad bows. It's not even the challenge really. It's just so much more of a connection to the weapon. And real black powder is awesome. The smell, the smoke, etc. Good stuff.
35 Whelen
Senior Member
50 caliber New England Firearms Huntsman with a Leopold VX I 2-7x33 with 70 grains of FFG Triple Seven and a 385 grain Hornady Great Plains bullet. Upgraded the breech plug so it no longer uses those orange plastic primer holders.
