5 .50-cal T/C Hawkens @ $50 each!! Holy SMOKES!!! What a deal! I can't find one around here in good shape for less than $300 used. Wow!
Anyway, I'm a recent returnee to the blackpowder world (though I shoot Pyrodex...). My first smokepole was a cheapie, wood-stocked sidehammer Traditions or CVA. Shot it some and then cleaned it and hung it up for a few years.
Now I'm back, with one of those plastic-stocked inlines, though I may be a bit spoiled as it is a T/C Encore Prohunter Katahdin. One great shooter! It's not exactly a Joe-sixpack gun however, retailing around these parts in the neighborhood of $700.
Of course, now I'm hooked again and really want both a nice sidehammer and a cap 'n ball revolver (looking at an 1851 Navy clone in .36 possibly). But when I hit the woods this fall, it will be with that Encore. But I also plan on using it for the whole season, not just the muzzleloader season. My centerfires have been getting cold and lonely in the safe lately!
Anyway, I'm a recent returnee to the blackpowder world (though I shoot Pyrodex...). My first smokepole was a cheapie, wood-stocked sidehammer Traditions or CVA. Shot it some and then cleaned it and hung it up for a few years.
Now I'm back, with one of those plastic-stocked inlines, though I may be a bit spoiled as it is a T/C Encore Prohunter Katahdin. One great shooter! It's not exactly a Joe-sixpack gun however, retailing around these parts in the neighborhood of $700.
Of course, now I'm hooked again and really want both a nice sidehammer and a cap 'n ball revolver (looking at an 1851 Navy clone in .36 possibly). But when I hit the woods this fall, it will be with that Encore. But I also plan on using it for the whole season, not just the muzzleloader season. My centerfires have been getting cold and lonely in the safe lately!