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do not recall ever seeing a thread about muzzle loaders here. anybody have any interest? i do...

I hunt with them all the time. Some flint, some percussion. Where I live it is mostly dove and turkey for me. I can't bring myself to use non-toxic shot in my Damascus/Twist/Laminated barrels. I can't remember right now when I used a breech loader. BUT I still love my Baker's.

There are threads on muzzle-loaders here occasionally. Tony restored one recently. It looked beautiful.

I shoot muzzle-loading SxS's quite a lot (often in NH). I have some Pedersolis (one older 12 gauge that is under 6 lbs and a joy to handle). I also have a couple of original percussion guns. I got into them through the back door, but I do enjoy them.

there used to be some very active muzzle loading shoot gun shooters in missouri and arkansas...there even was an interstate shoot off for the champion ship. does that still go on?

also, is shot gunning still an event at the NMLRA meets in Friendship, IN?

I too have one of those Pedersoli's Lorne speaks of, mine weighs 5.5 lbs. A PITA to reload, but where else can you find a 12 gauge SXS with 28" barrels capable of shooting 1-1/4 ounce loads. My first muzzle loader was a 20 gauge single barrel I had in high school and used it to shoot squirrels. Since then I've had a 10/9 gauge Manton, in rough shape, but I still used it to hunt pen-raised pheasants. The other muzzle loader was a 36 gauge SXS that I just recently had to sell because of economic considerations. I also used that one to hunt pen-raised pheasants.
Steve

Ed, for more information on muzzleloading shotguns and scheduled shoots, etc., contact the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Associaiton in -Friendship, Indiana. Lots of shotgunning goes on,

I love my muzzleloading weapons. Aside from RockDoc's Belgian Guild 36 double I bought from him my arsenal includes a nicely restored Westley Richards 12 bore perc double I acquired from Tony, a 14 bore William Chance double, a Purdey 16 bore double, a stunning Patrick Mullin 10 bore double and the pride of my percussions, a Joesph Lang 18 bore double rifle (circa 1835).

kid: was pat rick mullin a new york maker or was he english?

Patrick Mullin was trained in Dublin- in New York City 1850-95
Best Americam Maker Bar None IMHO
Bill McPhail

bill: i have only seen a couple of mullin guns. they both were well made and plain. perhaps the finest looking american made percussion gun that i ever saw was a krieder, made in phildelphia.