I'll be hunting in the Sam Houston National Forest with my 40 year old Mowrey .50 caliber traditional muzzleloader pushing a .50 caliber round ball with loose powder. I have carried it for three years now and never got a shot, but I keep hoping....
But even if I don't see a deer, it's pretty cool tramping through the woods, hunting the same way my great grandfather did. (Except he didn't have to pay $50 a year for a public lands license and wear Orange. Since I'm an Aggie, Orange is my least favorite color.)
Me pard & i were big on the ol style guns
fast drawing then got the .44 ball & cap pistals then the .45 Kentucky's for deer hunten... Minnesota had a one day doe tag season & a three day buck only... we used our Kentucky's for buck only... me pard was doing workup north... When three guys walked inta little bar with mountain man atire sat down... they were on a two week mussleloader hunt... one had bearskin coat.. Pard sat & chatted with em.. Tried pudding on a mussy hog hunt on in the
Public Hunting Forum section, no takers though...
should have put it on here... As pappy says:
Keep your head held high & your powder dry.. Safe hunten