Blackpowder hunting

[KDF22]

This was from spring with my .32 caliber squirrel rifle, just seeing how many folks use blackpowder

 

[McRem45]

Beautiful rifle. Don't shoot much other than smokeless powder in my muzzleloaders these days but you never know what the future holds. Thanks for sharing....

 

[308stillbrass]

Beautiful rifle, thanks for sharing.

 

[Jud96]

Beautiful rifle! I hunt in Western Pennsylvania where their muzzloader season is traditional flintlock only. I have a Lyman Great Plains .54cal flintlock I hunt with and shoot in 3D matches for fun. I also shoot civil war black powder muskets and carbines in competition. Black powder is one of my favorites!

 

[KDF22]

Thanks just curious if there was other smokepole shooters. I love real blackpowder and the way it fills the air with smoke. Never too late to try it with so many custom rifle makers

 

[Rick Richard]

A 50 cal custom that a friend built for me.

 

[KDF22]

That looks great a Hawken style

 

[KDF22]

This is my Southern style rifle made in 1990, by Tennessee Valley Arms still making them today

 

[Greyfox]

Great sport. My early deer hunting in the "rifle-less" Northeast was done with Black powder and archery. One of my favorites of my my several Virginia style flinters.

 

[Tree Farmer]

I hunt both deer (.50 & .54) and squirrels (.36) with flintlocks. I've had a love affair with traditional black powder rifles since 1968. While I also shoot/reload for a variety of cartridges and enjoy developing MOA hunting loads, I split my deer hunting between both. I'm working on finalizing a 500 yd 6.5 PRC deer load, I also finished tuning my .36 flinter the other day. IMO, if you can hunt and kill squirrels with a black powder rifle, then killing whitetails with a centerfire is a chip shot. I started with percussion rifles, but now mostly hunt with my flinters.

 

[KDF22]

Good to see other blackpowder shooters. I won't even get into my other obsession

 

[Tree Farmer]

 

[Tree Farmer]

First time posting photo, no idea what I'm doing. Anyway, rifle far left is a .50 from Track of the Wolf kit (simple build). Middle (.36) and right (.54) started from 8/4" hard maple board (just cut away anything that doesn't look like a stock).

 

[del2les]

Nice! Been BP hunting since the 70's, and I have owned up to 6 BP arms at one time. Today, I own 5: a 54, 2-50's, 45, and 36 cals, with one of those 50's a modern inline, but the rest are the classic hammer models. Your pic of those squirrels taken with BP brings back a lot of young memories. Thanks!