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anyone hunt small game with a muzzle loading rifle?
JW_Halverson:
Addictive? I bought my neighbor's dbl barrel 10 guage on a whim for $200 (now retails for nearly $800). Was just gonna hang it on the wall, you know? But then I shot it.
Then there was that nice curly maple .36 flinter secondhand at a $250...Now THIS one I can hang on the wall, because it's a flintlock and they are really fussy, right? But then I shot it.
And I shot it so good I won a .50 cal CVA caplock kit. Now I really am gonna hang this one on the wall because it's far too large a caliber to plink with and I don't hunt deer (not yet at that time). But then I shot it.
Then there was the .44 cal 1851 Confederate Navy revolver in the clearance bin at Cabella's. I could a shadowbox to hang this on the wall. But then I shot it.
Finally I ordered a set of parts from a reputable dealer, .50 caliber swamped barrel from Colerain because they have such a reputation, 100% tight curl stock, Siler flintlock, custom sights, etc. Like heck this one was meant for the wall, this sucker's fer shootin' !!! See? Old dog learnt a new trick!
Eric Krewson:
Similar journey here. I always shot TC stuff then a friend gave me his custom flintlock, Bill Large barrel, Bob Roller lock, one shot with this rifle and the TC stuff was for sale. After hunting with my friends tack driving gun for several years I decided to make one. Took a while but I finally completed my rifle.
Before I finished #1, I was buying parts for #2, a flint 12ga English fowler turkey gun and planning #3, another flint, 32 cal squirrel rifle. Pretty expensive addiction but I have to spent my social security money on something.
recurve shooter:
jw ;D
Mr. Krewson, unfortunatly i have no money to get my hands on one of those beautiful custom rifles :-[, but will have one eventually. i hope. i guess i'll try to trade/sell one of my .44 pistols and my .58 cabellas hawken for something half decent. amazing looking gun btw. ;D
Eric Krewson:
Depending on how crafty you are, you can get a pretty nice parts kit for less then a new TC or Lyman finished rifle. Where TC or Lyman kits are assembly kits, the parts kits have a bunch of inletting work to be done to get everything in the stock as well as drilling for bolts and cutting dovetails for sights and such.
I made this rifle several years ago and financed the parts by trading selfbows I made for pictures of dead presidents and swapping the pictures of dead presidents for gun parts.
Here is what I started out with, I worked off a full scale blueprint of a Beck rifle. I did sent the blank off to have it inletted for the barrel and have the ramrod hole drilled. I did what is called a scratch build instead of a parts kit with a shaped stock already inletted for the barrel and lock.
To give you an example of the work involved, it took me over 12 hours to get to here on the butt plate instillation.
To the final fit and shaping were a couple more hours.
recurve shooter:
as much as id love to do it that way, id get mad to fast. plus im not exactly a craftsman lol. ;D
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