These days I usually can't remember back that far, but I think my first muzzleloader was in the early '80s, one of the Parker-Hale .451 Whitworth percussion rifles. Graduated to flint soon after and have enjoyed a Pedersoli "Mortimer" .54 quite a while, just supplemented in the last month by a 14 bore flint fowler built by Stuart Wear. It's also been a hoot to field a brace of 1860 Armys in Cowboy shooting the last several years. As I get older I seem to be going backwards in time... or maybe just going backwards!

Smoke 'em!