Muzzleloader quail and turkeys

[ElPollo]

Anyone here use muzzleloaders for upland and turkeys? I found a good deal on a very lightly used Navy Arms 12 ga SxS recently. The plan is to try to take a few scaled quail over my dog with it this fall and winter and a turkey in the nearby mountains next spring. Muzzleloader shotguns are not a “far or fast” option for bird hunting, but I’ve always wanted to do it. The plan is to roll some paper patch cartridges for upland stuff with #7 shot this fall and work up and pattern some turkey loads over the winter.

 

[K9kodi]

Find a way to video this I gotta see

 

[displacedtexan]

A buddy of mine has killed a few grouse with his.

 

[ElPollo]

Find a way to video this I gotta see

Quail season has kinda been a bust this year in eastern NM despite good rains last spring. The populations have not rebounded from 3 years of drought. Can’t guarantee anything on filming a turkey hunt, but I intend to try this spring.

 

[Bulletman]

NICE!

 

[bradyhunt]

Quail season has kinda been a bust this year in eastern NM despite good rains last spring. The populations have not rebounded from 3 years of drought. Can’t guarantee anything on filming a turkey hunt, but I intend to try this spring.

I've heard E, esp SE is pretty good and that western NM is crap...

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[ElPollo]

So west TX seems to have pretty good numbers if you have access to hunt there. There seem to be scattered good pockets down around Jal to Hobbs. North of there it drops off pretty hard up as far north as Ft Sumner. The country looks good and had good spring rains last spring, but that was after three years of drought and some big hail storms. Unfortunately quail only live a year or two and they don’t sprout from seed.

 

[go_deep]

Guy I worked with back in Wisconsin in the late 90's and early 2000's only turkey hunted with a muzzleloader shotgun.
He killed one every year.

 

[HuntInWild88]

My dad was on a quest to get a black powder grandslam. Unfortunately he passed away before he was able to take a mariums. Im not sure how many eastern he had taken though.

 

[MarlinMark]

What do the cartridges look like? "The plan is to roll some paper patch cartridges for upland stuff with #7 shot"

 

[ElPollo]

What do the cartridges look like? "The plan is to roll some paper patch cartridges for upland stuff with #7 shot"

You use a template to cut and roll paper grocery bags around a dowel that is slightly under your bore size, tie off one end with string, add your shot charge in the tube, insert a wad of paper and tamp it down, add your powder charge, and then fold up the open end. There are several videos on how to do this online. When you load them, you tear off the folded end and dump the powder down the bore, the ram the rest of the cartridge on top and add a card over the top to hold everything in place. Do a search on YouTube.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

I shoot my 12 ga m/l on doves once in awhile. When I'm pass shooting, I just can't load it fast enough.

I use my 10 ga with b/p cowboy shooting too.