"Special" weapons?

[Mr. 16 gauge]

Well, it's the 'off season'.....things are a little slow.

How many of you have 'special' weapons, w/ re: to traditional BP shooting. Mine is my .54 cal St. Louis CVA hawken.....it was my first BP muzzleloader and was given to me by my wife as a graduation gift when I graduated from perfusion school. I've still yet to take a whitetail with it, but I've used it to take a bison and a fallow deer. It's 'special' because of the person who gave it to me and the circumstances.

So how bout it? Anyone out there have some special weapon, such as a hunting knife given to you by a grandfather, or a BP rifle that you made yourself from a kit a long, long time ago (when muzzleloading was synonemous with traditional BP firearms)?

[Adam Helmer]

Mr. 16 gauge,

My Special muzzleloader is a .45 caliber rifled Hawken with a spare .50 smoothbore barrel. I bought it off a guy who hunted deer in Massachusetts and was required to use a smoothbore, back then, in ML deer season. The .50 smoothbore is a neat shotgun in our PA small game season.

Adam

[MtnMike2]

A few of my rifles are special weapons in that they are hand-me-downs. For example I have 25-20 Model 94 Marlin from around 1900 or so that my grandmother used, after she was in a "retirement apartment", to chase another lady around saying "I'm going to shoot that old woman!".
I'm currently building a Lyman Great Plains Rifle in .54 caliber browning the barrel and metal parts instead of blueing.
But I guess my most special special weapon is a very early (1938 I think) Winchester Model 70 in 30-Gov't 06. It was used by my wife's grandfather for a great deal of hunting long ago and we've got old pictures of him with it. It shows wear but it is still a great shooter and has a great smooth bolt action cycle.


Mike

[Johnny Reb]

my father-in-law Introduced me to the world of traditional muzzleloading .I always admired his Thompson center Hawken cougar, It has a beautiful stock, and has a stainless steel lock and butt plate. One week before he died of cancer this past January, he gave it to me. It was a very special gift from a very special person.

[MtnMike2]

Very cool Johnny Reb. That is a really nice BP rifle and I'm sure you'll have thoughts of your father-in-law when you use it.

Mike