WHAT ??

"Relative Newcomer??"  Newcomer??  Well, ok, I've only been play the game since 1990 or there about.  But the answer will take a couple of minutes -
1.) Sure.  Most of the time I'm showing a pair of .44 Navy Pattern SNUBBIE Pietta Cap Guns.  Sometimes I switch off ('cause I be lazy) to a Pair of 1860 Pietta conversions in .45, wid short barrels.  I switch to Suppositories for "Lazy" days.

2.) Nope.  Don't have "Wet Weather" guns.  I don't shoot in the rain any more.  Being wet is not in my lexicon of FUN.  I go home.

3.) I do switch up to .36/38 just for grins and giggles.

4.) No desire for any guns other than what I already have.  I switch between different 1860 Henry rifles.  They are ALL .45s but are of different barrel length.

5.) I don't consider shooting Black Powder (Black Powder is NOT Holy) to be a hassle. I just prefer APP.  Either Black or APP are actually easier to clean than that heathen, fad, smokeless stuff.

6.) Nope.  I don't shoot smokeless anymore.  I consider smokeless to be rather boring.  Black and APP are FUN.  Much more fun to shoot at targets you can't actually "see."

7.) My Shotguns are ALL Hammer Doubles.  Hammer guns are just much more "CowBoy" than internal hammer guns.  And more of a challenge.  I also shoot my shotguns with All Brass hulls.  Again, much funner than plastic.  I also anneal ALL of my .45 rifle rounds.  My .45s shoot as clean as any "dash" caliber and are easier to reload.  My 16 inch barrel Henry Trapper requires Cowboy 45 Special cases to load 10 and is a real hoot.  I also have an 18 1/2 inch Carbine and a 19 inch carbine, all of which are custom built.  Henry's are capitol FUN you betcha.

I also shoot Gunfighter.  My Cap Guns have to be every bit, if not more reliable than Suppository Shooters.  ALL my Cap Guns are dead reliable. 

Mako, no, the question is inane.  I don't make it habit of listing my guns on a public forum.   Who cares what others shoot?    It's often a matter of what a person can afford, likes, has available to them or appeals to their sense of history, or any number of subjective reasons.  As a matter of fact, I do shoot percussion pistols, 36 caliber ones to be not quite specific.  Been shooting one of them since before there was a Frontiersman category in SASS, back when all we used was a single pistol..., well, before there was a Frontier Cartridge category, in fact.  So I've shot in the rain with percussion pistols many, many times.  I shoot a 45 Colt rifle, which specific one is a matter of whim on any given day... I shoot a side-by-side shotgun, 12 gauge, and again, which specific model is often a mystery, even to me, (although my current choices are down by one, it being in the shop for repairs), so it's either a hammerless with 20" or 26" bbls, or maybe the 26" or 28" hammered. 

My answers in [brackets}
Do you have different choices for different matches? [I shoot my Uberti Millenium 1863 NMAs for "serious" matches and 10+ other pistols for the monthlies. I also shoot less than perfect home cast bullets at the monthlies]

Do you have wet weather guns? [yes. A pair of suppository shooters (pistols that load from the rear) called Uberti Hombres in .357 cal and a stainless Rossi '92]  Especially those who shoot loose powder pistolas. [I almost always shoot Frontiersman but have stooped to shooting suppositories due to the dearth of caps]

Do you shoot the same calibers all of the time, or switch them up for grins or just to not get stale? [ I shoot mostly 44s in the C&Bs but occasionally switch it up and shoot 36s]
 
If you had your choice, within reason, and money wasn't an issue what would you shoot?  I don't mean wishing for original 19th century versions of everything... [Maybe stainless 4 or 6 inch Uberti Remington NMAs and a Henry rifle]

If you shoot a substitute powder is it because of availability, local laws or you just like the way it works and eliminate the "hassle" of BP? [ I will shoot anything that smokes in the shotgun: BP, Pyrodex, APP, Black MZ, 777, etc. In the C&Bs only 3F BP. In the rifle (357mag) I have settled on 3f 777 after trying everything from Black Canyon (you old timers might remember that one as well as...), Black Mag3, Clear Shot, Clean Shot, APP, BLack MZ, Pyrodex, & BP. I would likely be shooting just BP in the Rossis if the Snakebite bullet would have fed reliably in my rifles. All of the subs shot more accurately with little fouling using the Lyman RNFB 158gr bullet which feeds very well. I cast, size and lube all my cartridge bullets with 50/50 deer tallow and beeswax.]
Do you ever shoot smokless at some matches? [NEVER!]

All y'all,,, and chemicals... although plastic bags can be right handy when it's rainin'!

• I don't know...I'll bet several of us are older and have been shooting BP longer than you have.  There are some pretty old codgers on this forum...
  
• The first handgun I ever fired was an original 1860 manufactured in 1861 (family gun).  I have fond memories of that.  I had just finished the 2nd grade, we cast balls for it in the back yard over a "camp fire", used a can of who knows how old Dupont FFFg powder (i still have the can and some of the powder) only the caps were new. The old caps we had wouldn't fire, we had to go to the hardware store to get some new caps.
• I was hunting with a '73 in 44 WCF manufactured in 1886 (family gun) when I was 17 (I remember because I killed a deer with it that year).   The second handgun I ever fired is a SAA in .45 Colt manufactured in 1896 (I was 10).
• I still have all of those guns along with four family model 94s (Pre-war 20" saddle Ring carbines made in the '20s except for mine which was made in the '50s)  stamped 30 WCF (mine is the only one that is marked .30-30)
• I only shot vintage and antique guns until I was in college.  I only shot a pump shotgun or automatic a few times on the ranch (ranch guns, not mine), I have the original 30" double barreled cheap Belgian shotgun every hardware store sold that belonged to my great grandfather, and I shot that until I was 18 and bought myself a Rem 870.  I'm not boasting but, when were your revolvers and rifle manufactured and when did you start shooting them?  Who are you call'n a Newbie?

And what chemicals are you talking about?  Are you talking about Ballistol, or water?

Just phun'n you...

~Mako

Howdy all
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Thanks.........Macon Due 29445