What do you use your BP weapons for?

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Originally for extended deer seasons.Now,the range time is getting more interesting.
 
Target practice. It's fun.

ETA: The school I attended asked us to refrain from saying weapon. They're sporting guns or tools. Why? Avoid any negative connotation and denial of propaganda by the antis.
 
Target shooting and definitely stress relief! After years of shooting IPSC with semi-autos, it is a joy to slow down and hear the "pop" "boom" of black powder.

Dave
 
My Dragoons, and '60 Army are dedicated .45 Colt cartridge guns (gated conversions). My '58 Remie has a 6 shot R&D .45 Colt cyl.( that will stay in it unless it goes gated!). They are all for protection and paper punchin. When my Walker and ROA get their turn, they will join the herd.

Mike
www.goonsgunworks.com
 
My cap and ball revolvers are pure fun. :D I have a selection of spinners, reactive targets and like to shoot them with smokewagons. :D I have a couple of caplock rifles that are primarily fun since I got my CVA wolf for hunting. I put an optic on the Wolf, need it for my screwed up old eyes. Don't want a deer getting a less than lethal hit.

I've found out that cap and ball is not considered a "weapon" or "firearm" in Texas law. One can legally conceal carry a cap and ball without a CHL. However, the temptation to let my CHL go has been waned by what I found out a few days ago, Texas has eliminated the continuing education class for reups of the CHL. Now, just 70 bucks, get online on a DPS site and fill out the forms, they use the picture from you last driver's license reup and the finger prints they have on file. Takes about 10 minutes and 70 dollars is worth it for the fact that when you buy a new gun, you don't have to do the "instant background check" thing. :D

So, I guess my cap and ball guns will continue to be useless, but if it's fun, it ain't useless. :D

Oh, I do have a .45ACP conversion for my '58 Remmy and it hangs from the headboard of my bed as the first gun within reach should I need it at night. It's mainly there 'cause it looks cool, though. :D We bought this bed with a big Texas star in the headboard. I slide an unloaded cap and ball cylinder in it and unload the shotgun on rare occasion my granddaughter comes to visit. Everything else is locked away in the safe.
 
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My 50 cal long rifle is for hunting and plain ol fun

My c&b is my working gun on the farm, from keeping foxes away from the chicken coop, snakes outta the wood pile and to deter other 2 legged critters

I'm carrying a 60 at the moment but I have found that the remmies are much much better at taking the day to day knocking around that get dished out around here and will get another one when finances permit.
 
Definitely, keep them primitive they're effective enough just the way they are or should I say as they were. All they require is time and practice.
 
Whughett,
Smokeless!! Been reloading since 1990.
I have cleaned my share of b.p. (back when I thought it was fun to clean) and haven't shot b.p. in about 15 yrs. The best thing about my position is, I can shoot the finest looking revolvers ever to be held by man and take um home, wipe um down and clean um when/if I get around to it!!

I loaded a few b.p. .45 Colt rounds (couple hundred) to shoot in a '73 copy. Great fun but then I had a gun AND cases to clean!!! Not fun (fer me) and ain't got time fer all that cleaning!! That was the last of my b.p. shootin. Thing is, I can if I want too, I just choose not to.

With the tuning and arbor fixing these days, I'd never get to shoot at all (can't shoot as much as I'd like already) !! But, at least I get to work on the finest looking revolvers ever to be held by man!!!

Mike
www.goonsgunworks.com
 
45Dragoon:

Hear u on the case cleaning, don't mind the gun cleaning so much as have to clean the front loaders any way. Load target 45C for a model 25 any way so in the future think I'll stick to those. Bullets are the same for both 250 grain flat point. Smokeless case just dump them in the tumbler before de-capping.
 
Mainly for fun. I have other guns I use for working uses. I did do a bunny safari in the yard with a Uberti Navy copy a couple years ago though.

About the most fun I had shooting was when I was loading black for an original 1886 Winchester and 44 spl Colt single action. I didnt do anything fancy with the cases, I tossed them in a pan of water and simmered them a little while on the stove, then laid them out on a towel mouths angled down to dry, and reloaded at leisure. Guns had wet tpaches run through them with hot water, then dry patches, then oiled. It was less trouble than many modern guns, especially if cleaning jacket fouling out of a modern gun.

Cases were dark, but it didnt seem to hurt them. When I stopped shooting black in them I had a friend tumble clean them and I'm still using them for smokeless loads years later. Some still have dark stains but it doesnt cause any trouble.

ETA: The school I attended asked us to refrain from saying weapon. They're sporting guns or tools. Why? Avoid any negative connotation and denial of propaganda by the antis
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I've thought about this some in the past, but came to the conclusion that weapons are not in fact bad or evil. Weapons are also tools, just not for "sport", and use as weapons are an entirely valid purpose to have guns of any type. (preaching to the choir, I know) It just sounds more like denial on the schools part to avoid calling guns weapons.
 
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I shoot my BP weapons for fun, almost always at the range using sandbag rests. In the fall, if I draw on elk or mule deer tag, I'll hunt with my most powerful, most accurate rifle.
 
4v50 Gary said:
Target practice. It's fun.

ETA: The school I attended asked us to refrain from saying weapon. They're sporting guns or tools. Why? Avoid any negative connotation and denial of propaganda by the antis.
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I would think that "sporting gun" would turn more people off than "weapon".
 
4v50 Gary said:
Target practice. It's fun.

ETA: The school I attended asked us to refrain from saying weapon. They're sporting guns or tools. Why? Avoid any negative connotation and denial of propaganda by the antis.
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Ah yes, and no doubt pregnant was to be referred as "fetus friendly", drug dealers as unlicensed pharmacists and self defense as racist. The home school I attended taught me the only time it's not appropriate to call a spade a spade is when the situation demands it be called a <expletive deleted> shovel.
 
What do you use your BP weapons for?

I have four black powder muzzleloader rifles, and two cap'n'ball revolvers, which I have shot in muzzleloading matches and used to participate in the first black powder cartridge matches I attended. My only hunting has been with smokeless powder cartridge firearms.

I have been drilled by decades of exposure to Tennessee's "going armed" statute, to believe that weapon actually describes USE for offense or defense. My firearm, knife, tire tool, axe handle, fire extinguisher, 2- 3- or 4-D cell Maglite, steak knife, machete, entrenching tool, etc. become weapons if and when I intend to use them for purposes of offense or defense. Weapon describes an intended use, not an object. The law recognizes that firearms may be owned and used as sporting or recreational inplements, or as curios, collectibled, keepsakes or ornaments, as well as kept and borne as weapons.

My BP firearms would become BP weapons if and when I decided to carry one as a weapon of defense (or offense), which I do not do.
 
Strictly for fun times at the range and when the weather permits shooting in Frontiersman category at cowboy action matches.

Of course cowboy action matches require TWO handguns. So I've got a pair of Uberti Remingtons and a pair of mixed brand 1860 clones just because they are different from each other.

The local club also has a monthly black powder shoot where we walk along the BP trail at the base of the hill which is the bigger failsafe backstop for the range. The trail has both rifle and handgun targets. Up to recently when I got a single shot percussion I'd take one of the Remingtons or Colts along for this part of the day.
 
Carl N. Brown said:
What do you use your BP weapons for?

I have four black powder muzzleloader rifles, and two cap'n'ball revolvers, which I have shot in muzzleloading matches and used to participate in the first black powder cartridge matches I attended. My only hunting has been with smokeless powder cartridge firearms.

I have been drilled by decades of exposure to Tennessee's "going armed" statute, to believe that weapon actually describes USE for offense or defense. My firearm, knife, tire tool, axe handle, fire extinguisher, 2- 3- or 4-D cell Maglite, steak knife, machete, entrenching tool, etc. become weapons if and when I intend to use them for purposes of offense or defense. Weapon describes an intended use, not an object. The law recognizes that firearms may be owned and used as sporting or recreational inplements, or as curios, collectibled, keepsakes or ornaments, as well as kept and borne as weapons.

My BP firearms would become BP weapons if and when I decided to carry one as a weapon of defense (or offense), which I do not do.
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Always the peacemaker aren't you Mr Brown... I stand corrected.
 
Shooting paper, reenactment, living history, and loaning out my several brasser open tops (and Denix replicas) to low budget/no budget indie/UT film school and stage productions. The directors really like those shiney, non historically accurate brass frames. Give them a choice between a case hardened frame and a brass frame gun and they choose the brass framed one.
 
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1. Trying to see how close together I can put the little holes they make in a piece of paper placed at a respectful distance. I get so excited when all the little ones merge into one big hole and overhearing "What's HE shooting?" from the other people at the range. Like a taste for scotch, the smell of sulfur grows on you.

2. Collecting as many different kinds as my wife and my wallet will let me. Its way more fun collecting guns than baseball cards and stamps ever were back when I was in grade school.

3. Taking them apart and TRYING to put them back together so they still work the way they did before I messed with them. I am still in awe of the mechanics 50 years after my first Dixie brass framed Remington NMA kit.
 
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