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Originally posted by Adam Helmer
quigley,
I hear what you are saying and, yes, many new shooters go right to the inlines. There is a hardcore of traditional folks like us. I am Corporal Brasso in the PA Bucktails and we have some younger lads in Civil War uniform for our parades and re-enactments. Also, a few local teenage lads have come by this farm to get checked out on flintlocks for the PA Traditional deer season.
I have read the Lewis & Clark Journals, saw "Drums Along the Mohawk" movie (1939) and "Last of the Mohicans" movie too many times to ever buy an inline or acquire a synthetic stock for a musket. Ok, so I am a Traditionalist and that is fine by me and my loyal Golden, Webley.
Adam
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I may be wrong, but my impression is that those of us who were shooting ML rifles etc., all along, are still using the old-time actions mostly, but the people who are the hottest about the inlines, sabots, HV loads, etc., are people who have only joined us muzzleloader types since the advent of these contraptions, and BECAUSE of them. Otherwise, most of these people would still not be shooting ML's.... I still don't see why these people don't shoot their "superior" weapons during the regular seasons, if they are really so much better (NOT!!).
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01-13-2005, 10:09 AM
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