FrontierGander
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only rookies let their charge become contaminated! Along with using pellets.
The thing that bugs me about inlines is that the Civil War minie rifle is much more capable and shoot a bigger bullet to boot
If you load it in the woods and then go home to an area where you can't fire it off your back porch then how do you unload it.
You pull the cap off and let the hammer down. You now have theIf you load it in the woods and then go home to an area where you can't fire it off your back porch then how do you unload it?
Why would you feel the need to, especially if you're going hunting again that season?
when the sun goes down on the last day it's over. Simply pop the breech plug and it's empty for storing away till the next time it's needed.
Why? Like I said before I've fired guns that were loaded for years.
The second reason is for in-lines using 777 and some other substitute powders or pellets. They WILL degrade, and rather quickly.
I will never hunt with an inline and would feel guilty doing so.
Most dyed in the wool conventional muzzleloader advocates don't hunt, they punch paper.