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#2925738 - 08/29/12 10:46 PM

Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole)

dh1984
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here what my Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole)is
it is a traditions E-bolt 209 .50 caliber that i bought for 30.00 bucks at a Flea market. i can't find my camera or i would take a picture or two of it.

But this is what it looks like though

so lets see yours that you will be hunting with this year

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#2925780 - 08/30/12 12:13 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: dh1984]

reloadxx
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Encore FX

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#2926145 - 08/30/12 09:57 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: reloadxx]

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On top is my wife's, Traditions XLT Pursuit II with a nikon Prostaff 3x9x40, mine is on the bottom, Knight disc rifle toped with a redhead muzzleloading 3x9x40

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#2926254 - 08/30/12 10:58 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: easy45]

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My old American Knight.

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#2926257 - 08/30/12 11:01 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: MUP]

dh1984
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Originally Posted By: MUP

My old American Knight.

That's what i used to have until i gave it to my little brother to hunt with.

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#2926265 - 08/30/12 11:07 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: MUP]

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#2926348 - 08/30/12 12:07 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: FrontierGander]

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H&R 45-70 Smokeless conversion with Minox ZA3.

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#2926526 - 08/30/12 02:39 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Rubberduck270]

gtk
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If you reading this thread and don't have a muzzleloader to show, I've got a solution to your problem $\:D$
http://www.tndeer.com/tndeertalk/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=22&Number=2918716

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#2926568 - 08/30/12 03:03 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: gtk]

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I've had this ML since 2004. It's a TC Encore 50 cal ML topped with a Zeiss Conquest 1.8-5.5x38. It is a deer killing machine and has the most kills out of all of my hunting rifles. The scope mount doesn't give me any room for adjustment so I had to put a recoil pad on it to increase the length of pull.

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#2926688 - 08/30/12 05:20 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Rubberduck270]

Howa
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Originally Posted By: Rubberduck270

H&R 45-70 Smokeless conversion with Minox ZA3.

RubberDuck rocking the 45/70 smokeless conversion, I like it!

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#2926702 - 08/30/12 05:31 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Howa]

Howa
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Here's my own 45/70 conversion, an Encore Pro-Hunter, this is the one the kids shoot.....

Then I've got the two Remington 700ML smokeless .45 conversions...."Ug" and "Envy"..........

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#2926775 - 08/30/12 06:39 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Howa]

Hickory Nut
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No one has a replica blackpowder rifle to show? Where are those sleek Kentucky style rifles or stocky Hawkens.

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#2927641 - 08/31/12 10:36 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Howa]

Rubberduck270
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Originally Posted By: Howa

RubberDuck rocking the 45/70 smokeless conversion, I like it!

Lol. I think if I ever build another one it'll be an Encore. Or maybe I'll just bite the bullet and go for a Smokeless 700.

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#2927695 - 08/31/12 11:11 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Hickory Nut]

Wobblyshot1
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Originally Posted By: Hickory Nut

No one has a replica blackpowder rifle to show? Where are those sleek Kentucky style rifles or stocky Hawkens.

Hawken style fullstock that I've retired. Nothing wrong with it at all and could still take her out hunting with confidence. I scatch built this gun from parts way back in the middle 70s. The stock started out as plank of curly maple. About 90% of the build was with hand tools.

This old photo is me and the same rifle. I killed that buck on Thanksgiving Day in 1978. If I remember correctly, Tennessee didn't have a muzzle loading season in place then. Oh yes...that euro mount in the first pic is from the deer below.

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#2927843 - 08/31/12 01:03 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Wobblyshot1]

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Some cool history there Wobblyshot!

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#2928682 - 09/01/12 11:20 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: MUP]

Hickory Nut
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Yea. That's what I'm talking about.

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#2930298 - 09/03/12 08:13 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Wobblyshot1]

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#2930833 - 09/03/12 06:36 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Boone 58]

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number 1

savage ml 10-2 fully floated and beaded and 3rd screw added has killed deer at 326 yds scoped with a zeiss 3-9x40target knobs

number 2

cva buckhorn magnum cheap ole tasco

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cva frontier side lock percussion no scope

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cva staghorn currently no scope

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#2942733 - 09/13/12 09:30 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Deer Assassin]

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T/C Impact

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#2943320 - 09/14/12 11:22 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: BuckHunter511]

quigleysharps4570
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Some of my blackpowder firearms...top is the .50 Lyman GPR...middle one is the .54 Pedersoli Rocky Mountain Hawken and bottom is my little .40 flintlock longrifle.

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#2943329 - 09/14/12 11:30 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: quigleysharps4570]

Brisco Darlin
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now that's what i'm talking bout quigley. beautiful rifles. love the flinter.

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#2943332 - 09/14/12 11:30 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Wobblyshot1]

Brisco Darlin
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Originally Posted By: Wobblyshot1

Originally Posted By: Hickory Nut

No one has a replica blackpowder rifle to show? Where are those sleek Kentucky style rifles or stocky Hawkens.

way cool. i got into blackpowder around 1980.

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#2947087 - 09/17/12 09:40 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: quigleysharps4570]

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Originally Posted By: quigleysharps4570

Some of my blackpowder firearms...top is the .50 Lyman GPR...middle one is the .54 Pedersoli Rocky Mountain Hawken and bottom is my little .40 flintlock longrifle.

Nice collection you got there. Flintlocks have always been my favorite but have also been real partial to plains style rifles.

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#2947491 - 09/18/12 09:54 AM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: quigleysharps4570]

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painted it this year, CVA Optima

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#2959586 - 09/27/12 12:55 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: REN]

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Little late to the party, but here's my collection.....

First pic;
Top rifle is 'Thumpy' a Lyman Great Plains in .54 RE Davis triggers & all the bluing stripped & patina'd.
Bottom is my favorite gun. It's a .54, 42" barreled rifle biult here in Tullahoma by my good friend John Anderson. It was built following no particular style or school, just a mish-mash of different parts that I liked & thought would work together.

Second pic;
Top is an English Sporting Rifle .50 built from a mixture of T/C, Investarms & Davis parts. Incredibly accurate target gun.
Bottom is a Traditions Crockett in .32 & it's my go-to skwerling gun.

Last pic is 'Pig' It started out as a fast-twist T/C White mountain carbine. I re-barreled it with a cut down to 17" Green mountain 1:66 twist .58 tube. It has a Skinner peep sight & is a fantastic sub-50yd brish & hog gun. 120gn of FFFG & a .575 roundball is pretty persuasive in a gun that only weighs 5½ pounds!

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#2959588 - 09/27/12 12:58 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Robtattoo]

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This is me & Thumpy with my first buck.....

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#2959920 - 09/27/12 05:56 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Robtattoo]

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Hey Rob, good to see you here. I bought a flintlock Cabela's Hawken .54 from you a few months back.

*Wooden bows, Lever actions & Blackpowder. All a body needs!*

I'd replace wooden bows with match guns for turkey shoots and agree wholeheartedly with you.

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#2960045 - 09/27/12 07:48 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Robtattoo]

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Good to see ya on this site, Rob! Id reconize your old hide in a tanning house...Ha! Us traditional guys need to stick together. I'm afraid there aint many of us left.

In case you aint figured me out I'm the one with the little blonde headed wife that likes to shoot those old style muzzle loaders on the second saturday of the month.

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#2961279 - 09/28/12 10:24 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: Deer Assassin]

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Originally Posted By: Deer Assassin

killed deer at 326 yds

You killed a deer at 326 yards with a muzzleloader?

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#2962840 - 09/30/12 02:55 PM

Re: Show us your Muzzleloader (AKA smokepole) [Re: S.vitreum]

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