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Offline Swampman

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« on: December 29, 2008, 09:40:01 AM »
Sometimes I feel like selling my cartridge guns, and going inline only.  I hunted with pistols only for years & then flintlocks only for years.  I really like the older ones like the MK-85 & my Remington 700ML.  You can buy and shoot them for practically nothing.

I don't see how they can sell new inlines with all the super cheap high quality used models on the market.
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Re: Inline Only
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2008, 09:42:51 AM »
About the only cartridge weapon i have is a 30-30 that i havent hunted with in 11+ years. Also have a .22mag pistol that i mainly just keep for plinking and when i go for hikes. Even then i find myself taking the .54 along for my hikes.
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Re: Inline Only
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2008, 02:34:58 PM »
Quote from: Swampman on December 29, 2008, 09:40:01 AM
Sometimes I feel like selling my cartridge guns, and going inline only.  I hunted with pistols only for years & then flintlocks only for years.  I really like the older ones like the MK-85 & my Remington 700ML.  You can buy and shoot them for practically nothing.

I don't see how they can sell new inlines with all the super cheap high quality used models on the market.

As much as I like shooting my ML's, I find them far from inexpensive to shoot. Maybe it's just the powder, primers & bullets that I choose but they sure aren't cheap.

Shooting a .223 would be much cheaper but it sure doesn't have that nostalgic appeal.
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Re: Inline Only
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2008, 03:08:45 PM »
Yeah My 20 guage slug gun didnt even see the woods this year
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Re: Inline Only
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2008, 05:41:46 PM »
I haven't carried a shotgun in regular firearm season (shotgun, ML, or pistol) in years.  I can't say cost has been the deciding factor, my ML has greater accuracy and range.
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Re: Inline Only
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2008, 05:22:51 AM »
Quote from: Swampman on December 29, 2008, 09:40:01 AM
Sometimes I feel like selling my cartridge guns, and going inline only.  I hunted with pistols only for years & then flintlocks only for years.  I really like the older ones like the MK-85 & my Remington 700ML.  You can buy and shoot them for practically nothing.

I don't see how they can sell new inlines with all the super cheap high quality used models on the market.


How do you think "all the super cheap high quality used models on the market" got there in the first place? Because they are selling new inlines that how. It kinda works just like new and used cars, not hard to figure out when you really think about it.
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Re: Inline Only
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2008, 05:34:09 AM »
Quote from: Busta on December 30, 2008, 05:22:51 AM
Quote from: Swampman on December 29, 2008, 09:40:01 AM
Sometimes I feel like selling my cartridge guns, and going inline only.  I hunted with pistols only for years & then flintlocks only for years.  I really like the older ones like the MK-85 & my Remington 700ML.  You can buy and shoot them for practically nothing.

I don't see how they can sell new inlines with all the super cheap high quality used models on the market.


How do you think "all the super cheap high quality used models on the market" got there in the first place? Because they are selling new inlines that how. It kinda works just like new and used cars, not hard to figure out when you really think about it.
It's just market stimulation. Just because it's new doesnt mean its "better".  I fall for it myself from time to time. Some improvements are purely cosmetic. But that differientiate's them from the previous model..And some just have to have the newest. How many time's have we "Wished I would have kept my old one" . Drop
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Re: Inline Only
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2008, 03:28:06 PM »
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Shooting a .223 would be much cheaper but it sure doesn't have that nostalgic appeal.


After a my muzzleloader, my second favorite hog hunting gun is a .223.  Am currently reloading .223 for less than 20 cents per round.  Unless one gets free lead and casts his own bullets you can't get it that cheap when shooting a muzzleloader.   
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Re: Inline Only
« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2008, 05:32:21 PM »
The only cartridge rifle I have that comes close to being shot as much as my muzzle loaders is a Savage Model 40 .22 Hornet.  But I shoot a few thousand muzzle loader rounds over the course of a year, and a few hundred cartridges.  Maybe that's why shooting my MLs isn't cheap.  :D
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Re: Inline Only
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2008, 06:52:33 PM »
The same holds true for muzzleloaders as does modern weapons. The cost of shooting them has just about doubled in the last couple of years. For example, I have some .277 bullets bought years ago with a price tag on them under 10 dollars. The same box today will  cost 20. Caps for the MZL were under 4 bucks not long ago, and now they are 7 or 8 bucks a hundred. I have a can of black powder bought from Bass Pro a few years back with a price tag on it for 12.99, and the last can I bought there was 19.99. So not even counting in the cost of the projectile, and using a 70 grain charge, each shot is 28 cents, plus the cost of the bullet you are shooting. Sounds kind of pricey to me, so that's why I bought a 36 caliber. Can't be alwaysshootinsomething if I am not shooting! ;D
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Re: Inline Only
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2009, 03:33:37 PM »
I came real close to taking my Sidekick during the rifle season, I went hunting at least twenty times, killed a nice eight point and passed on many deer. I could have easily killed something with my Sidekick, which I DESPERATELY WANT TO DO.

but, the ML season starts in a week or so, but only lasts a week, four days of which I have to work....
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