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My first muzzleloader was actually given to my father in the mid 1970's for christmas. It was a CVA flintlock kentucky rifle kit in .45 cal. It was the ugliest rifle I had ever seen. It came with a two piece stock in some unknown mismatched whitish straight grained wood, It might have been birch? The two pieces of the skock seperated about halfway down the barrel and were fit together with two small pins. My dad tried to put it together but drilled a hole for the tang in the wrong spot and gave up. In the early 80's he gave it to me and I drilled and plugged his holes with dowels and completed the kit. That gun scared the hell out of me but I shot it anyway. I didn't use it for anything but learning to shoot flintlocks. I eventually tried to convert it to caplock which put it in a well deserved grave.
The next one was a T/C renegade .54 kit I bought in 1984. After firing several thousands of rounds the barrel just didn't want to group anymore so I installed a green mountain .50 cal 1:28" and now that one won't group better than 3" so I'm looking for a new barrel.
After that one I put together the vincent ohio rifle kit from track of the wolf. .50 cal 1:70". That was with a huge amount of help from a machinist/gunsmith friend, it was a bit over my head back then. I shot one deer with it but i didn't really like the deep curved buttplate and sold it in a moment of incredible stupidity.
I recently bought an omega .45 which has only served to spark the fire for a new sidelock or maybe replacing the renegade barrel. So, after 30 years of playing around with the traditional rifles I am still drawn to the good old sidelocks.
The next one was a T/C renegade .54 kit I bought in 1984. After firing several thousands of rounds the barrel just didn't want to group anymore so I installed a green mountain .50 cal 1:28" and now that one won't group better than 3" so I'm looking for a new barrel.
After that one I put together the vincent ohio rifle kit from track of the wolf. .50 cal 1:70". That was with a huge amount of help from a machinist/gunsmith friend, it was a bit over my head back then. I shot one deer with it but i didn't really like the deep curved buttplate and sold it in a moment of incredible stupidity.
I recently bought an omega .45 which has only served to spark the fire for a new sidelock or maybe replacing the renegade barrel. So, after 30 years of playing around with the traditional rifles I am still drawn to the good old sidelocks.