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Kibler is on solid ground having specific and certain “Golden Age” products representing known Americana. Stepping into the Hawken...

Here’s the famous pineapple Smithsonian flintlock conversion rifle I’ve collected every picture and article I could over the years…it’s...

Looking like a fullstock…with a beaver tail cheek rest instead of the expected “wedge style” Virginny on most full stock Hawkens… I...

Illustrating a point … The bottom rifle is a “gold rush gun”….but has a non slant breech, Golcher lock and the flat full stock style...

I don’t know how they refer to this rifle…(usually by some owners name) Lots of flintlockesque holes on the lock plate and a drum. I...

Oh boy….more Hawken yakking’…I’ve turned over every possible stone in this Hawken Mythology that is available to “we the public” since...

I have a contemporary gun that is percussion, the lock was clearly a flint lock cut down and modified to percussion. It is a near clone...

TC was heavy into investment cast receivers and parts…to my personal tastes, cast in stylized floral patterns and animals are cheesy...

Because they raised the prices too high. I’m not going to pay $50. a year for an electronic membership. I don’t go to frigging Indiana.

SHOT show is next week…. I’ve read with great interest your take on the state of the muzzleloader market…Kibler fills a niche with both...

I’ve had TC sidelocks….with their shallow rifled slug gun barrels. They’re the McDonalds of muzzleloaders….nothing gourmet on the menu...

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Like Tumbledown said.

Hard to imagine that men embarking on a boat up river on a journey into to the mountains didn’t observe some boat crew member looking...

I have 54 barrels on “plains” guns from that era…GRRW, Don Getz, Hoppy Hopkins, Jim Goodien…wait times were long with JJJJ Large barrels...