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Anyone shooting Muzzle-loaders/BP over here?

  • 17-08-2009 09:52PM
    #1
    bigred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭


    Hi lads,
    got the 2009 Henry Krank catalog delivered free with Shooting Sports magazine during the week and it got me thinking. It was stuffed with muzzle loaders of all sorts. Is anyone over here actually shooting at targets with these contraptions or is it just the re-enactors making lots of noise and smoke? I know the explosives act is still a work in progress, but it's something I may just pursue in the future when it all gets squared away. (might 'import' 18kg of BP from the UK:rolleyes::rolleyes:)

    It'd be cool to shoot alongside some lad with a TRG or something fancy and blind him in a cloud of smoke from my vintage gun :D:D


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  • #2
    rrpc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭rrpc


    bigred wrote: »
    BTW, would they all be treated as shotguns?
    If smoothbore, yes they would.

    Once it's rifled, then it's a...........:D


  • #3
    bigred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭bigred


    rrpc wrote: »
    If smoothbore, yes they would.

    Once it's rifled, then it's a...........:D
    Rhetorical question has now been removed. Cheers rrpc :D


  • #4
    johngalway
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    Can you get muzzle loaders/black powder guns here?

    Thought they'd be a no no?


  • #5
    kowloon
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    A black powder rifle, even an original one would be considered one step down from a nuclear weapon by the Gardai once they see the calibre, you could probably licence the TRG easier :D.


  • #6
    rrpc
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    The only issue with owning black powder firearms here at the moment is the black powder.

    Once that issue is cleared up, there's absolutely no problem and there are already a good few in the country.


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  • #7
    bigred
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 498 ✭✭bigred


    kowloon wrote: »
    A black powder rifle, even an original one would be considered one step down from a nuclear weapon by the Gardai once they see the calibre, you could probably licence the TRG easier :D.

    I was kinda thinking that licencing a .50 rifle might cause some consternation. But what about the smoothbores - they're only shotguns after all?


  • #8
    rrpc
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    bigred wrote: »
    I was kinda thinking that licencing a .50 rifle might cause some consternation. But what about the smoothbores - they're only shotguns after all?
    One of our members has one. Custom made job from the US I believe. Brought it to the range one evening (he wasn't shooting it there :D). The thing was almost as tall as him (he's about 5' 10").

    Not sure where he gets powder for it, probably breaks up shotgun cartridges. Doesn't use it that often.


  • #9
    Sparks
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    What's wrong with a .50 cal smoothbore? There's a .73 cal smoothbore on nearly every farm out there... :)


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