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amateurhour:
I saw that Traditions has discontinued their .54 cal percussion blunderbuss and there were only two stores still selling it at a reasonable price with free shipping so I bought one.

 :o

I do not NEED a blunderbuss, but the next nearest kit is like $1000 and there's some pretty good videos on youtube of people that converted the Traditions percussion rifles to flintlock by just putting a bolt with a few holes drilled where the bolster goes and swapping the percussion lock for a flintlock so if I ever want to remodel it I likely can.

osage outlaw:
Those are cool looking.  I'm guessing that's a close range weapon. 

amateurhour:
hovey smith on youtube did a series of videos with his kit and he hunted deer, goose, squirrel, and turkey with it.

He made a custom sight for it and was getting a pretty good three inch group at up to 40 yards with just a round ball but since it's smooth bore it wasn't any good past that.

At 10-20 yards with bbs it was pretty good for squirrel

Josh B:
Did you get it yet?  Josh

amateurhour:
I did!

I'll post some pictures of it Monday. I went up to Twin Oaks this weekend and worked on it a little but I left my hook knife at home and the caplock needs a fair bit of fitting as well as the trigger guard so I don't have it fit yet but the barrel is good to go.

It's going to be fun.

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