Another Observation

[Nessmuk]

I went to the range 2 days ago with 4 of my favorite modern firearms. I've had them for years but I hadn't fired even one after I got my T/C Hawken .45 Muzzleloader. i fired around 250 rnds altogether, packed up went home feeling vaguely dissatisfied. while I was cleaning them, I kept thinking "If I sell this one and those, I'd make enough to buy high-end .32 Flintlock and maybe a .36 Filintlock, too."  The bottom line is I selected two modern carbines and  2 modern handguns to keep and sell the rest for more muzzleloaders. Friends, is this normal or even common?

[Flinchlock]

Do what makes YOU happy.

[Ohio Joe]

Yeah, I need to thin my herd down as well, Nessmuk... It'll make a good winter project for who gets what, and what gets sold.

[Oldetexian]

You must be reading my mail. I don't have near as many guns as you seem to, but I have started doing the same thing. And like you, I too would like a small caliber squirrel rife.

My difficulty is that my son already" thinks" that he has a nice gun collection that I am currently holding for him... . It is time for a good father-son talk so I can disabuse him of that notion...

I have only recently come to the place where I realize that at my age I don't need to justify my desires or actions to anyone. It's a good feeling.

[BEAVERMAN]

Well said ray, I've been leaning that way myself, like Joe said time to clean out the herd, at 64 do I really need all these modern guns and when was the last time I shot them? probably time for a half dozen or so to find a new home, keep some bare bones around and buy an already built 32 flinter!

[Winter Hawk]

... at 64 do I really need all these modern guns...."

Thank you, now I feel like a decrepit old man instead of the dashing young buck I fancy myself to be! 

~Kees~

[PetahW]

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Shucks, I even use my .45 T/C Seneca for deer during my state's "shotgun" season, just because my state allows it as long as I buy additional "shotgun" deer tags to go along with my "muzzleloader" deer tags (all @ $7.50).



It's a good thing that I long ago took advantage of my state's provision to award senior citizens a permanent hunting/fishing license. 


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[Ohio Joe]

I went to the range 2 days ago with 4 of my favorite modern firearms. I've had them for years but I hadn't fired even one after I got my T/C Hawken .45 Muzzleloader. i fired around 250 rnds altogether, packed up went home feeling vaguely dissatisfied. while I was cleaning them, I kept thinking "If I sell this one and those, I'd make enough to buy high-end .32 Flintlock and maybe a .36 Filintlock, too."  The bottom line is I selected two modern carbines and  2 modern handguns to keep and sell the rest for more muzzleloaders. Friends, is this normal or even common?

Nessmuk,

I kind'a think many of us have experienced that same thing at one time or another. IMHO, that's the beauty of traditional muzzle loading in that at that one moment of the shot we have to make it count... it hones our skills to make another good following shot - rather then having several shots available to us every time we pull the trigger within seconds (or less)...

I'm not saying I don't own modern cartridge guns, I do... In the times we live it's a must with what's going on in the world today, and I've actually taught myself to make my shots with them at the same pace I do with my single shot muzzle loading firearms, trying for best accuracy with each shot...

All in all, I do prefer the ol' traditional muzzle loading firearms for the joy of shooting 90% of my time.   

[SharpStick]

Wow!  What great additions to the pass-around box this kind of stuff would be.
Now if they'd only fit in that little shipping box 

[Doc Nock]

Wow!  What great additions to the pass-around box this kind of stuff would be.
Now if they'd only fit in that little shipping box 

NOPE...then there'd be the whole ticklish subject of FFL's and yellow sheets and All that stuff...

As I've now aged, moved to an area that while it's quite rural, most don't hunt here due to lack of land access or they hunt their older family member's land, till they die or sell off...then they're out too...

So now I'm stuck with gun I don't/ Can't use and we don't even have gun stores here, just Pawn shops with FFLs

[Ohio Joe]

Wow!  What great additions to the pass-around box this kind of stuff would be.
Now if they'd only fit in that little shipping box 

NOPE...then there'd be the whole ticklish subject of FFL's and yellow sheets and All that stuff...

As I've now aged, moved to an area that while it's quite rural, most don't hunt here due to lack of land access or they hunt their older family member's land, till they die or sell off...then they're out too...

So now I'm stuck with gun I don't/ Can't use and we don't even have gun stores here, just Pawn shops with FFLs

Doc, there was a time when my wife and I were first married that we thought heavily about selling out here in the west, and moving to the land of Crockett... However, my research 25+ years ago pretty much told me the story of where Tennessee was headed... Sadly it would appear they got there... What a shame...

[BEAVERMAN]

I went to the range 2 days ago with 4 of my favorite modern firearms. I've had them for years but I hadn't fired even one after I got my T/C Hawken .45 Muzzleloader. i fired around 250 rnds altogether, packed up went home feeling vaguely dissatisfied. while I was cleaning them, I kept thinking "If I sell this one and those, I'd make enough to buy high-end .32 Flintlock and maybe a .36 Filintlock, too."  The bottom line is I selected two modern carbines and  2 modern handguns to keep and sell the rest for more muzzleloaders. Friends, is this normal or even common?

Nessmuk,

I kind'a think many of us have experienced that same thing at one time or another. IMHO, that's the beauty of traditional muzzle loading in that at that one moment of the shot we have to make it count... it hones our skills to make another good following shot - rather then having several shots available to us every time we pull the trigger within seconds (or less)...

I'm not saying I don't own modern cartridge guns, I do... In the times we live it's a must with what's going on in the world today, and I've actually taught myself to make my shots with them at the same pace I do with my single shot muzzle loading firearms, trying for best accuracy with each shot...

All in all, I do prefer the ol' traditional muzzle loading firearms for the joy of shooting 90% of my time. 

Joe, I agree! I'm an old Marine,one shot, one kill! no sense to waist ammo!