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tj922
11-01-2011, 12:54 PM
Not sure if this is relavent here but I thought I would ask.

I wondered how many folks on her have Black Powder guns? I have an 1858 Army .44 cap and ball.

Mischief
11-01-2011, 12:59 PM
I have several from 42 cal up to 62 cal, all flint

Willie
11-01-2011, 01:19 PM
I have a Traditions 45 cal. with scope. Killed my first deer with it. I would love to have an old one too!

Willie

hunter63
11-01-2011, 05:37 PM
Lots of traditional percussion type, one flinter, and an in-line barrel for the H&R Handi rifle.
Oh.... and a cannon.

jake abraham
11-01-2011, 05:53 PM
traditional percussion type

TheWaywardOne
11-01-2011, 06:42 PM
Hawken .50. Percussion.

hunter63
11-01-2011, 07:04 PM
Not sure if this is relavent here but I thought I would ask.

I wondered how many folks on her have Black Powder guns? I have an 1858 Army .44 cap and ball.

Who made it....some of them can be fitted with a .45 colt cylinder.....I know The Ruger Old Army can..........
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/hunter63/DSCF0737.jpg

gryffynklm
11-01-2011, 08:57 PM
1777 Charleville 68 cal Flint musket replica
Queen Ann 45 cal flint pistol replica
English Fowler 62 cal flint. replica

1853 Enfiled ??cal replica
KEntucky 45 cal rifle

93 cal achibus match lock in process of building it if I ever Finnish it.

Sparky93
11-01-2011, 09:30 PM
TC Hawkens .50 hand-me-down from my dad

SARKY
11-01-2011, 11:35 PM
TC Hawken, TC White Mountain Carbine, 4 Uberti .44 cal revolvers (brass frame), 2 Ruger Old army revolvers and lastly a Beretta Over and under percussion 12 ga. shotgun.

tj922
11-04-2011, 02:41 PM
Who made it....some of them can be fitted with a .45 colt cylinder.....I know The Ruger Old Army can..........
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y139/hunter63/DSCF0737.jpg
Mine is a new Pietta .44 There have been some folks that have converted them to a.45 colt. It's kind of a hand canon already.

FVR
11-04-2011, 10:28 PM
I owned a Dixie Shooters model in 45 cal. years ago. Dixie sells the conversion cylinders but for the price I would just buy a Blackhawk in the caliber I want. I've owned many bp revolvers and pistols and they are alot of fun to shoot. Loaded correctly you can get the ballistics of a modern 38, unless you have the Walker Colt, then it's just a plain cannon.

My favorite was a 44 steel Army that was found in an old barn. The guy soaked it in kerosene for a week and then cleaned it up. Best shooting pistol I've ever owned.

Owned a variety of traditional long guns, 5 of which have been GPRs. Got rid of all the bp except for the 54 GPR, I'll never get rid of that.

hunter63
11-05-2011, 11:54 AM
Some one had a "new in box, .50 cal BP gun kit" listed in the paper yesterday for $50 bucks.....called on it and left a message??? No call back.
First time I have seen one of these listed for sale in a long time.

This used to be my favorite way to score anything BP.

LowKey
11-05-2011, 07:15 PM
.54 cal. Pedersoli Rocky Mountain Hawken.

letslearntogether47
11-10-2011, 12:51 PM
TC White Mountain Carbine.

kyratshooter
11-10-2011, 07:41 PM
Going to do something I never do on the internet, show some of my work.

http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae193/lstancliff_photos/130.jpg

http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae193/lstancliff_photos/128.jpg

http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae193/lstancliff_photos/121.jpg

http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae193/lstancliff_photos/124.jpg

http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae193/lstancliff_photos/123.jpg

http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae193/lstancliff_photos/120.jpg

I manage to build about one each winter and they are not "kits". All are built from scratch. I have 11 I have built from scratch ranging from .32-.69 caliber in both rifle and smoothbore trim. There are two more half finished on the workbench and will be in shooting condition by spring. Building has kept body and mind together through many stressful times.

I also own factory BP guns.

2 TC Hawkins .45/.50
1 Traditions .32
1 CVA scope mounted in-line (I am not a trad-gun snob either)

Also have uncounted BP revolvers and single shots scattered about and I am not sure I counted everything in every corner as I walked through the house just now.

gryffynklm
11-10-2011, 08:08 PM
Kyrat, Very nice.

jake abraham
11-10-2011, 08:27 PM
Kyrat,great looking work thanks for showing us

crashdive123
11-10-2011, 09:32 PM
Awesome work!!!

Torch
04-21-2012, 03:34 AM
I have a Knight .50 and some kind of old black powder pistol I never fooled with.

randyt
04-21-2012, 07:34 AM
Dad's old combo gun, 12 ga and 40 caliber. Been going to shoot it but sometimes think it should be retired.
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh227/randytlee/100_3598.jpg

target pistol made from scratch except for the barrel and trigger guard and pipes.
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh227/randytlee/100_1647-1.jpg

rifle and shotgun made back when I was a teenager.
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh227/randytlee/100_0211.jpg


My dads squirrel rifle which I don't have a photo of. He made it when he was a kid. A fella close by recut the barrel and then he made a new stock for it. I'll dig up a photo.

kyratshooter
04-22-2012, 09:44 AM
Back in your Dad's day, which was probably also My day, There were very few of the preassembled "kits" that became popular in the '70s and '80s. If you built a gun, which was the only way you could own one unless you had a 200 year old origional, was to build from scratch.

In 1954 Dixie Gun Works opened and Turner Kirkland began buying up surplus trade gun parts from the Belgan companies engaged in the African trade. Not military surplus, trede surplus! The Colonial powers would not allow trade of modern guns to the African nations. Seems they had a preminition of modern Africa and knew what the tribes would do to each other with modern weapons.


http://www.ambroseantiques.com/flongarms/congo.htm

Anyway, he brought tons of barrels, locks and simple hardware to the U.S. market. you could buy a smoothbore barrel for $5, a lock for $5 and whittle a stock out of a 2x6 and have some kind of BP gun. They even made guns in-house from these parts and sold them for rediculiously low prices even for that time. I remember a caplock gun, just like the flintlock in the above picture, selling for $20 out of their catalog.

he was the start of the "kit gun" market when he began offering a lock, stock barrel, trigger guard, ramrod thimbles and butplate as a preselected parts kit with a chunk of beech 2x8 with a barrel channel groved down it you could turn into a stock. I bought the kit for $15 instead of paying $20 for the finished gun. I never finished mine and ofteh have wondered where it wound up. Probably in the trash.

Old Professor
04-22-2012, 11:18 AM
Over the years I have had many different black powder rifles from flint locks to cap locks to my current in-line TC Omega, all in 50 cal. I have taken several deer over the years with them. My son-in-law uses my current one more than I do, because I have found that I really do not like shooting black powder anymore. I don't like the clean up, yet i usually windup doing I becase the SIL is too busy skinning and butchering the deer to clean the rifle. I would prefer the longbow to the black powder if i want primitive.

hunter63
04-22-2012, 05:15 PM
Had the T/C Hawken flinter out yesterday, and no I'm not posting targets, but it shoots just fine, even though i was only shooting 50 yards, did keep it on the paper, trick is to not move in the split second of the "pheest...boom"....But I'm happy
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Hunting partner shot a .50 CVA that belong to my BIL that has passed, I gave it to him as he helped out a lot in the cleaning of the "stuff" from the BIL's estate.

This rifle was a early 80's CVA, "kit" Hawken .50 cal, percussion as described, that I helped the BIL and FIL build back then, actually shoot real well.

That was the first time he had tried it and was happy as well.

Also shot the new Handi's and a couple of toys, including the NAA Mini revolver, .22 mag.....LOL, with a 1-1/2 barrel is pretty much a last resort "belly gun", bullet tumbles real well.
Was a good day.

randyt
04-22-2012, 05:49 PM
My dad dealt with Turner back when he had a few parts for sale in the muzzle blasts magazine. In those days a fella dealt directly with Turner. Now days it seems like a big outfit. I was fortunate to have grown up with gun nuts. There was parts and pieces to pick through and granddad had planks of walnut, cherry and apple wood in the shop attic. Kits were available but a one of a kind was my liking. Good times.