Re: MtMan-List: Cabelas Flintlock -- Historically Accurate?

[hawknest4@juno.com (michael pierce)]

recommend you add about 200.00 dollars and you could have one of danny
caywoods preassembled kits---then with about 10 or 12 hrs you have a
better than average gun that will do what you want---depending if you
want a smooth bore or a rifled gun---pecatonica river will supply parts
of good quality with a precarve for about 500---to 600 depending on what
style you want in kit form---will require a small amount of inletting and
some work most non craftsmen can even assemble and put into order contact
me off line or give me a call and we can discuss this further---need to
know if you want a finished rifle or a kit or a pre-assembled rifle which
will require you to finish---

HAWK
MICHAEL PIERCE
1-813-771-1815
E-MAIL ADDRESS==hawknest4@juno.com

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 03:37:47 GMT mwhaught@netwalk.com (Mike Haught)
writes:
>Well, let's say $500 is in my price range right now.
>
>	-mwh
>
>On Wed, 1 Jan 1997 00:35:54 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>what is your price range that will deturmine what you will be able to
>>buy---let me know your price range and i will give you a list of 
>makers
>>that make kits or semifinished guns or complete guns---a bunch of 
>good
>>ones out there and a bunch of junk---dont scrimp on the lock and the
>>barrel---that is the heart of the muzzle loader---
>>
>>HAWK
>>MICHAEL PIERCE
>>1-813-771-1815
>>E-MAIL ADDRESS=3D=3Dhawknest4@juno.com
>>
>>On Sun, 08 Nov 1998 22:13:10 -0500 "Fred A. Miller"
>><fmiller@lightlink.com> writes:
>>>Mike Haught wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> I noticed the note regarding the lock question for the Cabela's
>>>> flintlock.  I have considered purchasing this gun for my first
>>>> flinter.
>>>>=20
>>>> I have been told that the lock for this gun would not be=20
>>>historically
>>>> accurate for reenacting the Virginia/Ohio frontiersman/settler 
>of=20
>>>the
>>>> 1780s through 1810.
>>>>=20
>>>> I'd like to ask the opinion of the resident experts here 
>whether=20
>>>this
>>>> gun would be a good first time flinter purchase.
>>>
>>>It's NOT, IMHO.  You'd be MUCH better off with a "Cumberland" 
>from=20
>>>Deer
>>>Creek's Wilderness Rifle Works line, which, by the way is 
>semi-custom
>>>hand-made, NOT production firearms from Italy like those from 
>Cabelas.=20
>>>
>>>Cut rifleing, curly maple stocks (NOT euorpean walnut or some 
>odd-ball
>>>wood), a properly designed and made lock, triggers, etc., are 
>quality
>>>accuratly reproduced items from good gun makers.  Quality doesn't 
>cost
>>>that much more.  Contact Bob at Thunder Ridge Muzzleloading for 
>data=20
>>>and
>>>prices.  E-mail address is: bob----debie@pcisys.net.
>>>
>>>Best,
>>>
>>>Fred
>>>
>>>
>>
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