Posted on 11/17/2017 8:16:27 PM PST by Simon Green
I’ve got a two-shot muzzle loading rifle (not shotgun). It is over-under and the barrels swivel (made by Leo Day). That way the fired barrel is always on top. Heavier than h*ll, though.
Not to be picky but cap and ball revolvers are “muzzleloaders” - the are multipleShot black powder weapons that load to the front of the cylindser. I have a bunch of them.
A muzzleloader would be a musket or a Pennsylvania rifle or a Plains rifle or a Civil War .58 Springfield. Suspect nobody’s been killed on purpose by one of those puppies since the 1880s or so.
A muzzleloader would be a musket or a Pennsylvania rifle or a Plains rifle or a Civil War .58 Springfield. Suspect nobody’s been killed on purpose by one of those puppies since the 1880s or so.
OK, I have a bunch of cap and ball revolvers too: Colt, Remington, Starr replicas, including a flintlock rifle, but most would consider a cap and ball revolver (including the ATF) a muzzle loader. I have owned and been shooting muzzle loaders and cap ball revolvers for nearly 50 years.
Not only are these rifles as silent as owls in flight, the shooter is also completely hidden by the smoke cloud. It’s just like Harry Potter’s Cloak of Invisibility.
Just think about it—complete silence and invisibility—no wonder all those buffalo died!
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