61. Hunting with a muzzleloader to you is:
| Gives me more time in the woods only but like to hunt with them. | (2) | 4% |
| I love muzzleloaders, hunt with them in modern season some, and like the history aspect too. | (41) | 84% |
| I don't care for muzzleloaders at all in a history standpoint. I only use one to get a chance at another deer. | (0) | 0% |
| I love to shoot muzzleloaders, but I don't like to hunt. | (6) | 12% |
62. What traditional conical would be preferable to you IF it were not legal to hunt with a patched Round Ball and Modern inlines with sabots were not legal either? Remember, only TRADITIONAL conicals are hypothetically allowed.
| Classic patched picket ball 1835-90 | (4) | 13% |
| bare groove diameter picket ball 1850-90 | (0) | 0% |
| slug with traditional one piece cross paper patch 1855-70 | (2) | 7% |
| Minie or Dimick SS hollow based bullet 1860-1865 | (11) | 37% |
| cylindro-conoidal swaged slug with crossed multi strip paper patching 1870-present | (0) | 0% |
| self-centering cloth patched picket ball 1870-90 | (2) | 7% |
| grease groove slug with ogive 1890-present | (4) | 13% |
| Other | (5) | 17% |
| None, I don't hunt | (2) | 7% |
The results of July 27, 2002's poll from Doug\Va.
63. When picking out a stock for a new gun, do you prefer….
| A plain jane without inlays | (21) | 40% |
| A plain jane with inlays | (6) | 12% |
| A fancy carved stock without inlays | (3) | 6% |
| A fancy carved stock with inlays | (9) | 17% |
| Other | (13) | 25% |
The results of August 3, 2002's poll from Rebel\Ore.
64. What is your favorite Pistol ignition?
| Wheellock | (4) | 9% |
| Snaphaunce | (0) | 0% |
| Miquelet Lock | (1) | 2% |
| English Lock | (0) | 0% | Doglock | (0) | 0% |
| Flintlock | (16) | 36% |
| Percussion Lock | (12) | 27% |
| Percussion cap n' ball revolver | (12) | 27% |
The results of August 10, 2002's poll from Doug\Va.
65. Which type of rifling do you like best?
| Square bottom grooves | (17) | 42% |
| Round bottom grooves | (13) | 32% |
| Hex bore (i.e. Whitworths) | (0) | 0% |
| Other | (2) | 5% |
| Undecided | (8) | 20% |
The results of August 17, 2002's poll from Rebel\Ore.
66. What is your favorite caliber for a pistol?
| .31 | (2) | 5% |
| .36 | (7) | 18% |
| .44 | (3) | 8% |
| .45 | (11) | 28% | .50 | (4) | 10% |
| .54 | (3) | 8% |
| .58 | (2) | 5% |
| .62 | (0) | 0% |
| .69 | (1) | 2% |
| Undecided | (7) | 18% |
The results of August 24, 2002's poll from Doug\Va.
67. If building a new long gun to take into the field (hunting, etc.) it would be……
| A Fullstock Rifle | (26) | 48% |
| A Fullstock Smoothbore | (13) | 24% |
| A Half-stock Rifle | (13) | 24% |
| A Half-stock Smoothbore | (1) | 2% |
| Other | (1) | 2% |
The results of August 31, 2002's poll from Doug\Va.
68. If you are building a gun, which brand of lock do you like best?
| Siler | (4) | 13% |
| L&R | (6) | 19% |
| Jim Chambers | (7) | 23% |
| R.E. Davis | (1) | 3% |
| The Rifle Shoppe | (0) | 0% |
| Custom | (2) | 6% |
| Other | (2) | 6% |
| Undecided | (9) | 29% |
The results of September 7, 2002's poll from Doug\Va.
69. If you hunt with a percussion gun, which do you use?
| Standard #11 cap | (26) | 59% |
| Magnum #11 cap | (7) | 16% |
| Musket Cap | (1) | 2% |
| 209 shotshell primer | (0) | 0% |
| I won't use a Percussion gun in a hunt | (5) | 11% |
| I don't hunt | (5) | 11% |
The results of September 14, 2002's poll from Doug\Va.
70a. If you had a chance for a hunt of a lifetime, for trophy deer what muzzleloader would you take? (Part one)
| Percussion round ball rifle | (15) | 35% |
| Percussion conical rifle | (4) | 9% |
| Percussion smoothbore | (0) | 0% |
| Flint round ball rifle | (18) | 42% | Flint conical rifle | (0) | 0% |
| Flint smoothbore | (5) | 12% |
| Other | (0) | 0% |
| None | (1) | 2% |
The results of September 21, 2002's poll from Doug\Va.
70b. If you had a chance for a hunt of a lifetime, for trophy deer what muzzleloader would you take? (Part two)
| .40 rifle | (2) | 5% |
| .45 rifle | (3) | 7% |
| .50 rifle | (9) | 20% |
| .54 rifle | (13) | 30% | .54 smoothbore | (0) | 0% |
| .58 rifle | (3) | 7% |
| .58 smoothbore | (1) | 2% |
| .62 rifle | (5) | 11% |
| .62 smoothbore | (6) | 14% |
| Other | (2) | 5% |