How many here still shoot black powder cartridge rifles?

26 February 2020, 22:28

pacecars

quote:
Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Pacecars, I believe Bill Goodman may just be the antichrist ...

He has cost me a lot of money! I really should take him off speed dial, lose his email address and block his website! Of course he has saved me a lot of time

27 February 2020, 21:38

degoins

pacecars,
you and I are in the same boat....except I'm waiting on a 45/70....to replace the one I traded last year for a Alex Henry double .450 express.

28 February 2020, 02:06

pacecars

Mine should be in around mid June. This is my 5th one from him and the 2nd new one ordered through him, the other 3 were used in excellent shape.

28 February 2020, 18:35

degoins

Mine should have been ready this month, I ordered it in October. this will be my 3rd Shiloh. Bought my 1st one new in 1992 from Hunters Rendezvous, the second I ordered through Bill in 2009 and now this latest one. Cant seem to be without a Shiloh for too long. Great rifles.

28 February 2020, 22:42

pacecars

I love them. I wish I had the money to keep them all. I want to try a Ballard but that is all I need is another expensive gun

01 March 2020, 00:34

degoins

Um.....what does need have to do with our weakness? Go for it while you can still enjoy it.

02 March 2020, 21:03

jerry mcdonald

quote:
Originally posted by degoins:
pacecars,
you and I are in the same boat....except I'm waiting on a 45/70....to replace the one I traded last year for a Alex Henry double .450 express.

Nice, I've killed two deer and a pig with your old 8-Bore rifle, the first deer was a basket racked 10pt that needed culling, butcher buddy called and ask me if I ran a rock bar through that buck ' ]
He has of course seen 12ga shotgun slug holes, holes blown through deer with high velocity rifle fire, but hadn't seen a clean hole cut that big, after I told him what I hit the buck with, he said, son you aint right!

02 March 2020, 22:04

degoins

LOL....good on you Jerry! I've often wondered what that 8 bore had been up to. Glad to hear you're using it the way it was meant to be used.

06 March 2020, 22:53

jerry mcdonald

quote:
Originally posted by degoins:
LOL....good on you Jerry! I've often wondered what that 8 bore had been up to. Glad to hear you're using it the way it was meant to be used.

You bet degoins, the buck mentioned earlier was facing West when I hit him though the shoulders firing dew North, one would think when he fell I'd be looking at his hooves, I was looking at his backline, that 8 Bore ball bowled him over, not a twitch.

The doe was hit at 15 yards through the shoulder on a hard quartering in angle, ball exited right ham out back, again, drop, not a twitch, the pig got knocked over at 30 yards with a through and through double shoulder hit, his back legs bicycled 100 mph for a few seconds, he never got up.

I really need to take that thing up North for a Bull Moose hunt, I don't believe even an 1800 lb Bullwinkle could contain one of those balls.

09 March 2020, 06:27

cal pappas

I have decided to sell most of my double rifle collection. 10 sold last year and more to go this year. I am retaining 1-2 nitro doubles and several more black powder hammer and under lever doubles. I really prefer the bpe doubles and if I needed to makea choice the bpe would get the nod.

While not an express rifle, this summer I will take a Rodda 4-bore for buffalo and am toying with the idea of bringing a .50-95 Winchester model 1876 for plains game (engraved on the barrel is a note that Holland and Holland put on the sights and regualted it).

Cheers,
Cal

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09 March 2020, 19:24

Bill/Oregon

Cal, you are a fortunate guy to have -- and to have had -- such wide experience with the doubles.
I certainly understand your fondness for the BP doubles. Whenever I feel down, I dig out old Samuel Baker's "Wild Beasts and Their Ways."
Dependable tonic for what ails.

10 March 2020, 22:00

degoins

quote:
Originally posted by jerry mcdonald:
quote:
Originally posted by degoins:
LOL....good on you Jerry! I've often wondered what that 8 bore had been up to. Glad to hear you're using it the way it was meant to be used.

You bet degoins, the buck mentioned earlier was facing West when I hit him though the shoulders firing dew North, one would think when he fell I'd be looking at his hooves, I was looking at his backline, that 8 Bore ball bowled him over, not a twitch.

The doe was hit at 15 yards through the shoulder on a hard quartering in angle, ball exited right ham out back, again, drop, not a twitch, the pig got knocked over at 30 yards with a through and through double shoulder hit, his back legs bicycled 100 mph for a few seconds, he never got up.

I really need to take that thing up North for a Bull Moose hunt, I don't believe even an 1800 lb Bullwinkle could contain one of those balls.

Great stories Jerry!! By all means go kill a moose with that bad boy.....and of course give us report with pictures.

When I had that rifle, I found it easy to carry and not bad at all to shoot...even from the bench.