Discussion starter....There can be only one....

[Red Badger]

Tough choice.... either Poacher, my 1st black powder, a 54 cal cabella's Hawkin. Or Patience, My 54 cal early Lancaster flintlock from Tony Avance... hmmmmm coin toss...

[padre]

My CVA caplock 45 cal. mountian rifle, which has taken several elk and deer over the last 20 or so years.

[russell shaffer]

My CVA caplock 45 cal. mountian rifle, which has taken several elk and deer over the last 20 or so years.

Gee, don't you know it takes at least a .54 or maybe a cannon to drop an elk?  Even some of the state game people say that.  Maybe they never heard of shot placement.

[Hanshi]

Ooookay!  Only one, huh?

As Louis L'Amour put it, "beware the man with only one gun; he likely knows how to use it."  Or words to that extent....
~WH~

..Or, "beware the man with one gun because he's probably poor as dirt and will try and steal yours."

[Dogshirt]

Muzzleloaders are like beers. The best one is the one in your hand RIGHT NOW.  But if you're forcing me to make a choice,
it might have to be the .58 Hawken, made by W. B. Selb that I'm off to pick up in a week or two.
And yes, I WILL be posting pictures. 

[Hanshi]

Looking forward to seeing those photos, Dogshirt.

On a tangent - forgive me, please - I find it interesting that quite a few owners name their guns and always refer to them by that name.  I've never named any gun I've owned, but there is one notable exception; and that gun is my .62 smoothbore, Ol' Loudmouf.  And I doubt the name needs any explanation for you guys. 

[flintboomer]

One gun and nothing else would have to be 12 guage for the same reason early muskets were smooth bore: versitility. A ball or slug will take down a deer or elk if you play the game right.

I would also cheat and say one long gun and one handgun. It would be a .44 (magnum).

Hanshi didn't say they had to shoot black powder.

The muzzleloader would be my old .54 Renegade with an extra .32 barrel, not because either is especially accurate, just the versitility.

[graybear]

I guess if I could only have one it would have to be my 20 ga. fowler because of the versatility. It would work for anything I would need to shoot, winged, four legged, or two legged, fine shot to buck and ball.   

[Hanshi]

Flintboomer, are you saying black powder is NOT the only powder available?  Blue match heads, maybe.  And what is a .44 magnum?   

[flintboomer]

Flintboomer, are you saying black powder is NOT the only powder available?  Blue match heads, maybe.  And what is a .44 magnum?   

I think Colt made one called a Walker. It was designed to shoot SIX TIMES before you had to reload and it was designed to replace the calvary carbine!!! What will they think of next?