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My brother-in-law gave me a used CVA .50 cal he picked up somewhere a few years ago (percussion cap, round ball, "Mountain" style). Not a great rifle by any means but a fine entry-level rifle to learn with. He taught me how to load/shoot at a Rendezvous in Colorado with a bunch of other gentlemen who had been at this a while. They "valued tradition" as they put it - patches came from a roll of pillow ticking, lubed with saliva, trimmed with a patch knife as you load the ball.
Something that surprised me was just how "intimate" the whole prep/load/aim/shoot/follow-through cycle is for a black powder rifle - little details matter all through-out to shoot well. I really enjoyed it and need to shoot more...
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