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Offline pastorp

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Muzzleloader hunter
« on: February 15, 2011, 04:08:40 AM »
Does anyone hunt only with muzzleloaders?   ;D.

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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2011, 05:53:27 AM »
during gun season,yes.but i bowhunt too.......karl

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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2011, 07:28:22 AM »
I usually switch between ML and modern rifle. My hunting days are coming to a close so I am going to hunt with ML from here on. Just because.

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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2011, 05:09:05 PM »
I have only hunted with a traditional Hawken I built from a Cabelas kit.  It has taken several deer.  I cannot work up a desire to hunt with a modern rifle.   

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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2011, 05:56:25 PM »
I hunt strictly muzzleloaders and bow. Although I have both traditional and modern in-line muzzleloaders. Even working on restoring the SxS 12ga front stuffer I bought off of a member here on the forums. It was usable out of the box, I just happen to be extremely anal when it comes to cleaning and fixing any of my firearms. The double barrel will be used for everything from turkey to squirrels.

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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2011, 07:03:35 PM »
some seasons i hunt ml all year long just because i dont wanna buy my gun stamp

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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2011, 08:59:53 PM »
I stopped big game, upland and waterfowl hunting many years ago.   But in 2005 I started using only a 36 caliber rifle and 45 caliber pistol (both sidelocks) for called predator and varmint hunting.   Modern rifles had long ago become way too easy, and so did specialty pistols as well after about 35 years, so the challenge of the muzzies brought new life back into those two types of hunting for me that I had done for over 5 decades but had been getting pretty stale.   I never used camo for any type of hunting my whole life, but I did start wearing my rendezvous persona leathers to really be going back to basics on my hunts.  Added alot of pleasure to the hunts.   I did fine with varmints to surprising ranges with the 36 up front, called predators that stopped were also no problem, but it took me a bit to get running shots on predators down with both arms.   I started getting a handle on it though  and there was plenty of satisfaction again on all my hunts.    Too bad near 40 years ago I shot a few predators with my 50 & 54 Hawkens.   Did so much pelt damage (I ran trap lines then too) that I never used the muzzies again for them until 2005.   Never even tried with the first 32's, 36's or 45's I owned unfortunately, so I missed out on a lot of years I could have been using the muzzies for P&V. 
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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2011, 05:01:17 AM »
We are a Shotgun State "to include muzzleloaders" but if you would go back to 1980 or so, it was more of the exception to find a good shooting slug gun so for myself, the muzzleloader was it and would remain so for more than 20 years.

Have to admit though that when the State started to allow handgun hunting, my SA revolvers kind of bumped the old .50 to the side except for the late season.


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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2011, 12:13:12 PM »
I hunt the entire season here with a muzzleloader.  Used to use it for just the early muzzleloader season, switch to my .308 barrel and then to the flintlock for the late season.  Now I just use the inline all season then go to flintlock for the late one. 

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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2011, 12:47:30 PM »
I hunted with flintlocks only for maybe 15 years.

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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2011, 11:23:42 AM »
Dang, you mean there is another way to hunt????????????

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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2011, 07:07:27 PM »
Dang, you mean there is another way to hunt????????????
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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2011, 03:26:42 AM »
Exclusively for the last 10 years, mostly for the previous 20 before that.  Sold my slug gun last year, cuase I never used it any more.  I also bowhunt extensively  waiting on Ohio to pass a spear season.......been practicing with my atlatl!
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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2011, 02:56:23 AM »
Denny, We have one local here who would hunt with a spear if they let him. He was featured in a local outdoor mag a few years back for taking a deer with a flint arrowhead that he knapped.
Bob is over 70 and still tours doing demonstrations with his atalat, He beat me out as being the first local in probably many many years to take a deer with the front stuffer by a full three years.

I have mainly been hunting with center fire revolvers these days with the .50 being reserved for the late season but members Pab1 & groundhog 107 have stirred my heart with the Lyman Plains pistol kit with that thread now being on page 2 of this forum. I have the T/C Patriot pistol in the .45 cal but need at least a .50 to be legal.

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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #14 on: March 14, 2011, 02:28:23 PM »
Some years, yes.  I also switch between airgun and .32 flintlock for small game.  For deer, I have used a centerfire rifle one season since 1997.  In 2005 I carried a .45-70 with blackpowder loads for the modern gun season.  The rest of the deer seasons (modern gun) have been split between handgun and muzzleloaders (one of my two .54's).
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Re: Muzzleloader hunter
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2011, 08:23:33 PM »
I do not remember the last time I used a slug shotgun during any of the Illinois firearm deer seasons. Sometimes its a TC Encore pistol in 480 Ruger. I just bought another TC Encore with a TC custom shop 50 cal muzzle loading barrel on it that I hope to use in the futures as well. If not the pistol a TC 50 cal Pro Hunter or a 54 cal TC Renegade. Sometimes I carry the pistol and one of the rifles if the season allows.