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Thats all I use now.
I shoot a 54. cal flint swivel breech rifle/smoothbore combo.
for regular season and a custom 54 cal Marshal for primitive flintlock or a 54 cal Ordinare french fusil.
I have pulled of 250 yard shots consistantly. I have to say that I shoot a lot.
I've killed a lot of game and love a good shootin' match.
Not to take away from the inlines but they're not as accurate and actually slower to load. But they'll put a deer down like any other type of firearm if you hit 'em right.
The best is to hunt small game with em'. Especially on a paid bird hunt. You aught to see the jaws hit the ground.
About 3-4 years back put on a show for the local fish and game boys, after I was told that there were not enough foot lbs. of energy to kill a deer at over 100 yards and a 300 yard shot was out of the question.
Long story short. At 300 yards I hit the target 5 times and the patched round ball went through a 3/4 in piece of laminated ply-wood and two hay bales.
I shot nine times, so I hit better than 50%.
I have bolt action rifles, lever action rifles and autos. But once you get bit by the blackpowder bug... Your hooked.
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Wild Willy
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