Saturday, January 17, 2026

Subject of flintlock kits having come up,

some years back I went looking for one, CVA used to make a blunderbuss kit I was looking for as a present.  And found they no longer made them.

Further looking found a few places that did put together a kit to build them, but they were a lot more expensive than used to be.  And I can't remember where, but there was someone making a kit for the Baker rifle, much more expensive.*  

Which is still  something I feel a need for a good flintlock rifle.  For some reason, that desire is still there.

One of these days I need to find a barrel, there's a Remington rolling block receiver I'd like to complete.  But a good barrel... finished barrels I could not find.  And a blank, especially counting the machine time to have it chambered, and the shank threaded and so forth, that's expensive.



*Considering the features and parts, not unexpected.

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