My First Muzzleloader Was.....

[348Winchester]

a replica of a45 caliber Kentucky long rifle my Dad gave me for Christmas. He got it at Sears. I took it hunting in 1983 and snapped a cap on a small buck. I never did kill a deer with it and eventually sold it for a Hawken. I feel guilty about that now and wished I would have kept it.

Who else started muzzloader hunting when sidelocks were the only choice?

 

[Jcalder]

My first was a cva hawken. Kicked like a mule when I was 14. It would smoke a dime at 35 yards but I never killed with it. Missed several with it tho.

 

[BigD_625]

Made in Italy. That's all it says. It's a carbine length side hammer that I still have. It had the set trigger, but no scope. I never got to fire a shot at a deer with it.

 

[TITANSFAN2104]

An old cva hawken style that sounded like a dynamite fuse burning when it popped. Better follow through with that gun. Lol

 

[rem2506]

CVA Kentucky rifle that I built from a kit. didnt kill a deer with muzzleloader till I got a Knight T-5.

 

[Wobblyshot1]

An Antonio Zoli 1863 Remington replica commonly known a Zouave. Popped a cap on two buck deer with that gun...never a kill.

 

[Matador]

I started in 1982 with a Lyman Plaimsman. Killed my first buck with it in 1983.

 

[Matador]

An Antonio Zoli 1863 Remington replica commonly known a Zouave. Popped a cap on two buck deer with that gun...never a kill.

was that a 58 caliber Wobblyshot?

 

[SES]

CVA Mountain Stalker. My mom and dad got both me and my brother one for Christmas around 1990. Killed my first muzzleloader deer with it in Hawkins County. I still have it, but it doesn't see the woods anymore.

 

[reloadxx]

Tc white mtn carbine 50cal. Got it for my birthday in 1990

 

[deerhunter10]

cva 45 cal firebolt still have it and its still a tack driver

 

[Wobblyshot1]

An Antonio Zoli 1863 Remington replica commonly known a Zouave. Popped a cap on two buck deer with that gun...never a kill.

was that a 58 caliber Wobblyshot?

Yes it was. It was a tack driver with a patched round ball, but I could never get her to shoot minies worth a darn. I sold it years ago. Kinda wish I still had the old thing.

 

[Brisco Darlin]

Tc white mtn carbine 50cal. Got it for my birthday in 1990

i still hunt with mine to this day. got it in 1990 also. My first was a CVA hawken kit that i got for Christmas in 1981.

 

[wayers]

cva fire bolt killed a few then went to a cva hunter bolt ,45 I still have the hunter bolt shots awsome.

 

[shopson]

A kit from Kmart I bought off my father.

 

[encore06]

A TC Hawkens .45cal. I never killed a deer with it in 4-5 season. Shot at a couple

 

[Killing time]

and still is.....a Knight MK85. For the past 15 years...

 

[UTGrad]

CVA Optima Pro. It had a 29" barrel so it got a full burn!

 

[TennesseeJed]

a T/C Renegade .54 and I still hunt with it.

 

[bigtex]

T/C Hawken 50 cal. Couldn't afford the complete rifle so my wife bought me the kit for Christmas back in the late 70's.
Killed many a deer with it, missed many more,lol.

 

[reloadxx]

Tc white mtn carbine 50cal. Got it for my birthday in 1990

i still hunt with mine to this day. got it in 1990 also. My first was a CVA hawken kit that i got for Christmas in 1981.

Heck I was still crapping green in 1981 lol
Them little Tc was a good shooting gun I killed many deer with that gun.

 

[Brisco Darlin]

i still kill alot of deer with mine.

 

[clinchmtnboy7]

A TC Renegade on Christmas in sixth grade. Back in those days that meant i could hunt deer for three extra weeks in VA. Had the wood to yourself.

 

[savageman]

1996. Traditions St. Louis Hawken. Killed a doe with a round ball at 6 yards.

 

[muddyboots]

Invest arms 50 caliber.

 

[tbam]

Cva BLAZER .50 after bout 3 years it blew apart from the wood and all I had was a barrel..lol (circa 1990)

 

[dg7080]

First was a T/C .50 Hawken I built from a kit back in the late 70's. I used it for several years but sold it and bought me a .50 Renegade. Love my Renegade but sure wish I had never sold that old Hawken!

Since that time I've gone through a couple of Knights and also picked up a T/C .45 Cherokee. I used the Knights for several years but now I only have one Knight and it stays in the safe. The more I used those modern inlines, the more I realized I enjoy muzzleloader season for what it is for me, a traditional season to hunt with a weapon like my ancestors used, its not a high tech muzzle loading single shot rifle season. But that's just me...

Next weekend, the Renegade and the little Cherokee will roll!

 

[wsm]

Knight 50 cal.for 5or 6 years and encore for last 13years.

 

[BIGB]

I started with a T/C Hawken back in the 90s. I killed one deer with it. It got traded off on a coon dog. Oh the lessons learned about trading. Got me an Omega few years ago, wife shoots it now and I'm shooting a Knight. Bought a CVA Hawken last week, gonna try to teach my son some history , first hand.

 

[Deerhunter]

First was a Lk-93 Knight Wolverine that dad bought me for Christmas sometime in the mid 90's. Used it for many years to kill alot of deer. Havent shot it in about 5 years since I got my Savage. Still looks and shoots as good as new tho and I will probaly give it to my boy as his first mzl when he gets a little bigger.