How manyy were in muzzle loading before CAS

[Bitterwheat]

How many were in muzzle loading and buckskinning before going to CAS? i startes out in muzzle loading back in '66. got out of it a couple of times, but always went back. Now at and old age I'm trying CAS. But not the HOLY BLACK. To many years of cleaning up guns.

[The Arapaho Kid]

I have done muzzleloading.  I used to belong to The Cascade Mountain Men.  My guns were a .40 caliber flintlock rifle, a .58 caliber cap and ball, a .36 Navy Colt in cap and ball and a single shot .40 caliber dueling pistol.  Every year we had a rendezvous with all the trappings.  I had a full buckskin set of clothing (GAWD that stuff is yukky when it gets wet!) an imitation coonskin hat and all the other gear that went with it.  I got away from it for the same reason.  Cleaning those darn guns after a shoot.  Whata mess!  Now I shoot Black Powder ammo when I do CAS.  I like making lotsa smoke with my scattergun!

[Qball]

I started shooting front loaders 1982 and my favorit was the flintlockmusket in .75 cal.
Have a BrownBess copy that never failed me at the northern swedish championship.
Ain't got much time for that any more thou. Bummer.

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[Capt. Hamp Cox]

Mainly for hunting - never got into the buckskinning thing, although it looked fun.  The state has a few draw hunts limited to ML, so always try to stay proficient in case we get drawn.

[Forty Rod]

Hard to answer because I was shooting SAA .45s and lever action Winchesters back in 1957.  Got into ML after watching Jeremiah Johnson in 1973 at a drive in theater near Camp Lejeuene (sp?).  Shot with the Low Country Bark Busters out of Beaufort, SC  until I got sent to Japan.  Stayed with it when I came back and shot ML until about 1985.

Got into CAS about 1982 and had some overlap.  Finally joined SAS in about 1989-'90 (?...I should see if SASS HQ can give me the date, out of curiosity.)

Still have my Lyman .50 Great Plains Rifle and a few others items I used.  My son got the TC Hawken I started out with, but it was stolen from him about 13 years ago.

[litl rooster]

Late 70's into the 80's I wasn't a damn hippie I was well groomed Mountain Man. Shot TC 54 flinter and a 45 Kentucky I built was very crude had crude tools to work with but it was a shooter. Have both still all thought I haven't shot either in a long time.     I loved shooting at the Rendevous.

[Wes Virginian]

I started hunting in the late '60's with a TC Hawkins in .45 cal. Bought another one in kit form and hunted with it until about 10 years ago. I worked with Bill Large's nephew for about 30 years and never did get a Bill Large barrel for myself! Still kicking myself for that!

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[Slim Silver]

Started in '78 with a TC Hawkin .50 Cal, still got Ol' Smokey and still hunt with it each year.  Never did make the move to in line.

[Jose Grande]

That's a tough question. I've used single actions & lever actions for 35 years or more. But I didn't start CAS till about 4 or 5 years ago. I've hunted with frontstuffers for nearly 25 years & I still enjoy them a great deal.

[Big John Denny]

I'm a current member of the National Muzzlel Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA), and a charter member of the Griffin Longrifles. Get to at least one shoot a month, real black powder only. Killed an Elk in Colorado with my .54 Cal Renegade in 2003. Hence the end of my signature "Aim small.....Miss small".

Am also in the 20th Georgia Volunteer Infantry of the North-South Skirmish Association. Only real black powder allowed. Gonna kill something this year with my new flint lock .54, so watch out.

Don't shoot black powder in SASS though, go figger.

[Big Oly]

I started shooting muzzle loaders back in the late 70's and still do at least 3 Rendevous a year. My wife started shooting them when we first got married and I got my step son invloved. Since then I have another son and daughter both started with muzzle loaders at age 3. My son is now 13 and has been shooting CAS for 3 years my daughter will start next year after being a brass picker for at least one year. I haven't got my wife involved in the shooting part of this yet however she completly supports us right down to dressing the part.

[RattlesnakeJack]

Yessirree ... did the black powder/buckskinning bit for about 25 years before gravitating into CAS - I also "had enough" of the Holy Black during that period, so I shoot sm*kel*ss now!

[Qball]

I'm surprised to see that former blackpowder shooters no longer wants to shoot black in CAS?
When i first joined the CAS shooters in Sweden i thought that it was blackpowder only. Honestly
My first goal was to be able to shoot more than 13 shots at a ten ring paper target.
Boy did that change
I think that the blackpowder guns is much easyer to cleen than smokless ones.
Hot water and oil, that's it
No blowback in my Rossi so i strip it down once a year.

[Grapeshot]

I got involved with muzzleloading when I used to participate in Revolutionary War reenacting and recreational shooting when I was much younger and couldn't buy cartridge guns.  Then I got involved with N/SSA doing Civil War stuff and shooting rifled muskets and cap & Ball revolvers.  Then Came SASS.