You know you're a long time muzzleloader when...

[Confederate rifleman]

You know you're a long time muzzleloader when...
Your first shot with a .22 rimfire makes you think you had a misfire.

 

[alaskagrizz49]

That’s pretty funny, I thought the very same thing after shooting .22’s with my grandsons recently...hadn’t shot rimfire in some time!

 

[rangerod]

That is funny. I do have a 17 HMR and it's a lot of fun to shoot.

 

[John carter]

I still love the rim fires. Cheap to shoot. They can require a lot of tweeking to get accuracy. I have an old Remington 513t with a twenty power scope. It used to keep up in br50shoots. not anymore as some bring in some high dollar rifles to shoot. So now I just plink

 

[jlynch75]

I still love the rim fires. Cheap to shoot. They can require a lot of tweeking to get accuracy. I have an old Remington 513t with a twenty power scope. It used to keep up in br50shoots. not anymore as some bring in some high dollar rifles to shoot. So now I just plink

I also love shooting .22's my favorite gun is a Remington 24.

 

[Hatchet Jack]

...........................when you find a bunch of TC Break Away Sabots stashed away in your gun room and can't remember what decade you bought them in.

 

[wmdbowman]

Or you have an unused can of Pyrodex you bought to try when it first came out. Never used it and now it's caked up in the can.

 

[James Sparhawk]

Lol,

 

[Confederate rifleman]

I figured this would strike a cord!
Its like reenacting also. I saw a cute girl in a skimpy outfit. Wondered what she'd look like in a hoop skirt...

 

[wmdbowman]

Confed, If you find a women that will wear a hoop skirt bring her to the Feast of the Hunters Moon @ Fort Wheotinon on the Wabash River in Indiana. Old French Fort settlement that goes on for several days with good food, Good trading, good reenactment ,and good cannon fire .

 

[HC]

The feast is canceled this year due to COVID-19.

 

[wmdbowman]

Bummer! but no surprise Sorry for you guys.

 

[John carter]

Or you have an unused can of Pyrodex you bought to try when it first came out. Never used it and now it's caked up in the can.

Purodex.... I use the crap,out of that sTuff. my old knight loves that stuff. but if I have to remove the plug and push out a load the pyrodex is on big pellet.

 

[wmdbowman]

One of Hodgdon family died years ago in a pyrodex fier/explosion @ their manufacturing plant. I think his name was Bruce Hodgdon but not sure. That was maybe 30 years ago

 

[Confederate rifleman]

The inventor of Pyrdoex, Dan Pawlack (? spelling) died in a plant explosion shortly after it went on the market.

 

[HC]

Dan Pawlak and 3 others lost their lives in the accident, January 27, 1977.