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Could you please tell me what the length of pull, and the weight are? Unless the camera angles are deceiving me, the L.O.P. appears to be close to 14", which unfortunately is just too long for this ageing 5' 8.5" tall shooter.

Most Don Stith kits with a 36" long tapered 1" octagon barrel in .50 caliber are going to weigh in between 9-10 pounds. That 36" long barrel weighs nearly 5 pounds all on its own.

When I arrived in Alaska back in 1981, the first thing I went looking to purchase was a .44 Magnum Ruger Blackhawk single-action revolver, so I could "Protect myself from grizzly bear attacks". All five of the men working in the 5 different gun stores that I visited, told me the exact same...

The European brown bear, the North American grizzly bear, and the coastal Alaskan/Canadian brown bear are all currently taxonomically classified as ursus arctos horribilis. They were formally classified as ursus arctos arctos with close to a dozen sub-species being given other names. Scientists...

Wild game abounds today in much of the United States for several reasons. First, is that there are virtually no mature first growth apex forests left in the United States. Most were logged of to make arable farmland, to build homes & factories, to build wooden sailing ships, and for various...

How is it that organic farming, and I really detest that term, fed all of mankind for thousands of years? How is it that what I choose to call natural farming, instead of organic farming, was the only way that humans farmed for more than 9,000 years? Bad farming practices, which reach back into...

For thousands of years farmers did not require the mined bat & bird guano, the other mineral amendments, nor the petrochemical fertilizers/poisons that the post-WWII Green Revolution absolutely needs in order for that model of farming to exist. Petrochemicals, which are a short-term...

I don't know what fantasy world that you find yourself living in, but claiming that farmers in the United States are the best stewards of their land on the planet is just nonsense. When I was a kid, living in Baltimore City, on weekend family drives in the 1960's that my father & mother would...

Like others have stated, I used to be able to scare up all kinds of upland game birds just by walking through a farmer's corn, barley, wheat, or grass/hay fields. This was in the 60's, 70's, & 80's. Also, there were still a great number of hedgerows left on the perimeters of most arable land...

Dave, You are so lucky to have that Bis barrel. It's a stunning piece of workmanship. I can't wait to see how the final product turns out.

I am seriously considering a 10 gauge barrel with a 0.775" bore diameter. The T.W. Pistor, Brandenburg style barrel had a heavy breech, that rapidly tapered to a very narrow waist, and then flared out to a moderately heavy muzzle. What I envision, and I am not sure if Colerain will pull it...

I talked to Scott Keller yesterday about the possibility of Colerain making me up a 21" long, T.W. Pistor Brandenburg style, smoothbore Jaeger "Stutz" barrel. I would be going for a very large breech, I'm thinking in the neighborhood of 1.4375" in diameter. He was willing to consider the project...

I have never liked anything but flintlock rifles since I got started in muzzleloading back in 1971. At that time, age 17, I could purchase a one pound can of black powder from my local, family owned, third generation hardware store that was just over the Baltimore City/Baltimore County line here...

Remember that all aspects of muzzleloading, from the one man business that provides hickory ramrods blanks, all the way to the largest companies like CVA, Pedersoli, and others; only comprise less than 1/1000 of 1% of the total outdoors/sporting goods/hunting/fishing/shooting/firearms/bow...

As much as I want the Goex plant to re-open in 2022, I feel that the current political climate vis-a-vis anything firearms related, in conjunction with the past decades of increasing legislation/laws/taxation in order to make the United States safe from anything perceived as dangerous (and what...

Employee owned companies have traditionally been more resilient, and operate with a better sense of what its customer base needs/requires. They tend to be healthier financially. Two that come immediately to mind are Johnny's Selected Seeds, and Bob's Red Mill.

The myth that 1:48 rate of twist is somehow not sufficient for a patched ball, is just that, a big fat myth. A 1:48 rate of twist was the most common rate of twist used by gun builders back when men's lives depended upon muzzleloading rifles in the 18th & 19th Centuries. Regardless of...

Original, British-manufactured, Parker Hale Enfield Musketoon.

I am going to postulate a theory that back when black powder was the only propellant available for war, hunting, or sport that not only was the quality of the powder problematic at times, but so also was the supply. I find it impossible to believe that even armies were always supplied with...

I can understand the competition bench rest shooters (ball & bullet), the BPCR cartridge rifle shooters, and the modern inline bullet shooters, all feeling that Swiss black powder is a necessity for their particular type of muzzleloading shooting. For myself, unless the only way that I can...