who is hunting with a sidelock this fall?

[shguns]

I found and purchased a really nice Knight Disc Extreme this past Feb/ March and it is a fine shooter now that I have figured it out some.
However I also picked up a Green Mountain .50 LRH 1:28 twist barrel for my TC Hawken .54 and have found it to shoot amazing with Swiss black at 80 grns and a crush rib surrounding a .452 Hornady 300 grn xtp mag. I also have a lyman peep for a rear sight on it.

So I'm really thinking of hunting with the sidelock when I get the chance!

How about you??

 

[cayuga]

Since I hunt the modern and muzzleloading season with only muzzleloaders, I will be using side locks some time during the season. I do want to shoot a deer with my Lyman Great Plains Hunter flintlock.

I also want to try a little Traditions Woodsman Hawkins Flintlock I have. But if it hunt fields, then I will take one of my inlines, like the Genesis or Disc. If I hunt the swamps then it will be with my White Inline.

Just depends on what part of my woods I am hunting.

 

[LarryBud]

I shot one deer with a inline earlier this year.

I plan on using either the Hawken or the Rene to fill my Doe tag in December.

 

[edmehlig]

If i score with my White ML during PA's early ML season, then I plan on using my Flintlock 50cal Lyman Deerstalker. Unfortunately, its been so long that I shot it, I need to see what she likes.

 

[Huntin_Dawg1215]

Plan to hunt early season with sidelock and Regulargun with in-line then lateseason with sidelock.

 

[lewistt]

Investarms Hawken for me. Probably go with a .50, instead of the .54. I have a scoped .50 carbine that will probably go with me first, then a scoped Cabela's Sporterized Hawken rifle, then the peep sighted .50 Sporterized Hawken rifle. Might take the .54 out for old times sake.

 

[Semisane]

Well it's not a sidelock, but is a .54 round ball barrel that uses #11 caps on a striker fired under-barrel drum & nipple.

I'll be hunting with it until I take a deer with it. Then I'll switch to a .54 Great Plains flintlock or one of my Renegade caplocks. Like Cayugad, I pretty much use muzzle loaders throughout the season.

 

[cayuga]

That really is a good looking rifle Semisane.

 

[lewistt]

WOW! That is a BEAuTIFUL rifle! What the heck is it?

 

[Semisane]

Thank you lewistt. It's an original design that I built myself.

 

[JStanley]

I'm hunting up on an oak ridge this year with an 80 yd shot max. I really want to take a deer with a prb. I'm using a T/C Hawken with 75 gr of Swiss 3f and a .490 swaged ball from Traditions. It's very accurate but in my load development I have yet to recover a patch intact. I don't know if my patches are too dry or thin but the experimenting sure is fun!

 

[Huntin_Dawg1215]

Good looking rifle Semisan.

 

[JStanley]

Wow Semi, that is one gorgeous gun!

 

[Semisane]

I'm hunting up on an oak ridge this year with an 80 yd shot max. I really want to take a deer with a prb. I'm using a T/C Hawken with 75 gr of Swiss 3f and a .490 swaged ball from Traditions. It's very accurate but in my load development I have yet to recover a patch intact. I don't know if my patches are too dry or thin but the experimenting sure is fun!

JStanley, I know you're going to think I'm crazy. But try Liquid Wrench as a patch lube. Squirt some on a stack of patches. Massage it in with your fingers. Wrap the stack in a paper towel and squeeze the bundle so the towel absorbs as much LW as possible. The patches should feel almost dry.

This is from the gun pictured above.

 

[JStanley]

Semi-

Do you apply liquid wrench just before shooting? Can they be kept fresh for longer term? How would you do this if you cut at the muzzle?

Thanks! Jackey

 

[Semisane]

I don't cut at the muzzle. But I would think you could apply it to your roll of patch material and then squeeze it dry with a paper towel. I haven't kept them for longer than a month or so, but don't see how they could go bad.

Try it on a small roll and see how it goes. I'd be interested in hearing how it does for you.

 

[JStanley]

Gonna try it this week. Thanks!

 

[excess650]

I'm going to start the Virginia early MLer season with my .62 Jaeger flintlock if the weather cooperates. I may take my .58 flintlock English Sporting rifle along as a backup as I took a buck and longbeard with it last fall. If the weather is rainy, I may just use the Grey Hawk percussion .50.

 

[rat trapper]

I plan to take my TC Hawken rifles out to the woods this year.

 

[lefteye]

I took my Deerstalker flintlock out and got my first roundball deer in the PA early muzzleloader season.
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