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This hatred started way back in 1973 when I borrowed my cousin's .45 caliber flintlock to hunt the first PA primitive season. Hunting in a foot of snow the first day of the season I had to go and shoot a fat little 6 pt. Being newly married with a mortgage and other bills I was able to scrape up enough money to buy a T/C Hawken .50 cal flintlock kit and used that for several years. Then, well you know, I had to get a caplock. It was a brand spanking new Seneca in .45.. Don't know why but I traded that in on a .50 Hawken caplock. Over the next few years I had bought additional flinters and caplocks, bullets, balls, powders and all the other stuff that goes along with shooting these smokepoles.
Well that wasn't enough...Knight came out with the inline muzzleloader. I restrained myself for several years but the addiction was taking its toll on my mind. I waited and waited and succumbed to buying a CVA Optima. Put a scope on it and had to buy these sabots and bullets for it! My range increased and I had shot a few deer with it but still used my sidelocks. The inline was a novelty for me. Additional muzzleloaders came and went (mostly came). My addiction was getting out of control. Having a better job and no mortgage I had more money to blow on them. I got a CVA Accura V2 which could, and still does, shoot the gnats off a flies butt. But that wasn't the end. I picked up a couple Knights with my latest being a Moutaineer, a couple Senecas, Lyman GPRs, T/C Renegades, bought Green Mountain barrels and even had a couple barrels made by Bobby Hoyt. And now my latest acquisition is my CVA Scout converted to smokeless by Hankins Precision Rifles. Between the Moutaineer and the Scout I've spent several hundred $$ on bullets until I found what they liked. I usually spend a couple days a week at the range - at least one day getting my fix on.
I'm hoping my addiction will soon subside. I don't know how much my wallet can take. I would come to one of you guys for help but I'm of the opinion that most of you are in the same boat.
Well that wasn't enough...Knight came out with the inline muzzleloader. I restrained myself for several years but the addiction was taking its toll on my mind. I waited and waited and succumbed to buying a CVA Optima. Put a scope on it and had to buy these sabots and bullets for it! My range increased and I had shot a few deer with it but still used my sidelocks. The inline was a novelty for me. Additional muzzleloaders came and went (mostly came). My addiction was getting out of control. Having a better job and no mortgage I had more money to blow on them. I got a CVA Accura V2 which could, and still does, shoot the gnats off a flies butt. But that wasn't the end. I picked up a couple Knights with my latest being a Moutaineer, a couple Senecas, Lyman GPRs, T/C Renegades, bought Green Mountain barrels and even had a couple barrels made by Bobby Hoyt. And now my latest acquisition is my CVA Scout converted to smokeless by Hankins Precision Rifles. Between the Moutaineer and the Scout I've spent several hundred $$ on bullets until I found what they liked. I usually spend a couple days a week at the range - at least one day getting my fix on.
I'm hoping my addiction will soon subside. I don't know how much my wallet can take. I would come to one of you guys for help but I'm of the opinion that most of you are in the same boat.
