A good starter black powder hunting rifle

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Holleyman

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I have never felt the need to hunt black powder nor a huge interest to shoot BP at the range. Now, however, I find I need one in order to continue my hunting this year. Alberta has the season open until Dec 20 using primitive weapons (zone 500), bows, shot guns and black powder. I have zero interest in bow hunting and I have a couple shotguns but nothing I would consider a hunting gun (mostly shorties and coach guns). Out of the tree black powder seems to hold the most interest for me.
What would be the best bang for the buck (pun intended) for a rifled black powder rifle? Is it even worth it to try and pursue this year as I have little to no experience using a black powder?
Opinions and advice welcome.
 
There is a lot more to muzzleloading than using a modern rifle. The care and cleaning, and the load development is sometimes very time consuming. It is your call, but I would suggest that you work for next years season.
 
Also if you leave it to next season, you won't rush out and buy the first one you see. this gives you time to check out some of the muzzleloading forums on different hunting sites. If you can find someone who does it already to kinda show you the ropes, possibly hold and try out different rifles. I been hunting deer and moose with one for 9 years now.Feel free to PM me any Q's you might have.
 
I bought the CVA Wolf brand new for $180. Fibre optic sights, pre drilled for scope mount. Capable of magnum loads (i wouldnt recommend it). I use 100 grains of 777 and a 250 grain .50 cal bullet with great success. Front stuffers are a blast, nothing beats the smell!! For $180 you cant go wrong with CVA.
 
My Traditions Tracker 209 works well enough and if you can still find them, they are probably the cheapest new muzzleloader available. Anything more is just... more. So we can all give you a variety of opinions, but only you know how much gun you need/want and how much you are willing to spend.
 
T/C Omega....cheap, reliable, very accurate, easy to clean and pretty much point and shoot with Pyro pellets and 250 grain SST bullets. I wish I could say it's more complicated but T/C made this gun pretty well idiot proof. Had my buddy's sighted in and shooting an MOA group with five shots.
 
Depends whether you want to go traditional and really use black powder or go plastic and use substitutes(in-lines), substitute copper jacketed bullets, substitute sabots, substitute sighting equip.(scope),substitute powders(777)...you can really go back in time, to how our forefathers did it.
 
ben hunchak said:
Depends whether you want to go traditional and really use black powder or go plastic and use substitutes(in-lines), substitute copper jacketed bullets, substitute sabots, substitute sighting equip.(scope),substitute powders(777)...you can really go back in time, to how our forefathers did it.
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Actually I prefer the Pyro substitute but some like the 777 substitute but there are many other substitutes as well. In-lines on the other hand are hardly substitutes......our forefathers used them too.
 
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Thats great Alberta has a primitive season, NB may have one by 2020.
But doesn't primitive mean no inline black powder rifles?
I have been using black powder caplocks for years and they are easy to clean if they are pretreated properly before you take the first shot.
My first BP rifle was a 50 cal Lyman Great Plains great gun. I went through about 20 different kinds and I finally settled on a 50 cal Pederesoli Tryon and I will probably keep it a long time. I never had much luck with flint locks but love caplocks.
If you want info on an easy way to clean a BP rifle without cutting corners send me a PM.
 
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