We are less than 5% of the muzzleloader hunters!

[Catfish]

Years ago I shot alot of Black powder. First in a T/C Hawkens and then in a .45 cal. flinter, long rifle I built. I killed several deer with both guns but lost them both in a fire. Seems as though I just never got around to shooting the old stuff any more. I have a Tenn. Poor Boy in .40 cal. that has been in my vault now for 6 to 8 years that I have never fired, and at one time I thought that would be the rifle to end all. Last fall I killed 2 deer with a handgun and the year befor I killed 1 deer with a handgun and 2 with a muzzle loader, but it was a T/C Encore, with the modern powder and the sabots. It`s not the same as hunting with flint or even precusion, but as I get older I get lazyer and I have always been a meat hunter and not a horn hunter. One of these days I`ll get the Poor Boy out and maybe that will give me the fever again for the frount stuffers, but there`s not many people around here shooting them like there was 20 to 30 years ago.