Clearinghouse for unfinished kits?

[Borego]

I have experience in aviation and know that many more homebuilt aircraft kits are purchased than are ever finished because the buyer lost interest or patience. Often these aircraft kits become available and are completed by the new owner. Are muzzleloader kits the same way? I have never seen "project" muzzleloader kits.

 

[Roy]

There are a lot of kits out there, but usually when someone lacks the ability or interest to finish it they will send it on to a builder to do the work for them. Most of the time they still want the finished product. :v

 

[Old40Rod]

Occasionally you do see a "I bought it but didn't get around to finishing it" kit or part sets for sale on this forum and elsewhere. A "clearing house" would be nice.

 

[Mike Brooks]

Many times they're botched up so bad you'd be better off starting over. :haha:

 

[Old40Rod]

And then again, perhaps not. Like everything "2nd hand", it depends what you want and what you need. :grin:

 

[F.G. Ford]

Last year I bought a .45 cal. Mowrey kit in the white.
It is a kit from the 80's, never touched.
I completed it, came out just fine, and a great shooter.
So there are bargains out there, you just have to look.
Best Regards
Old Ford

 

[Frank/Pa]

I agree with Mike Brooks. Some of these things are real hatchet jobs.

 

[MikeChapin]

I'm starting a CVA Colonial pistol that someone gave me twenty years ago or so. He said he had problems with it and had lost intrest so just gave it to me.

I finally found it and pulled it out of the box. He had miss drilled the barrel pin hole about three times. One of them went through at an angle and was almost to the bottom of the off side. Some of the parts were missing but I have worked on enough CVAs that I was able to replace them out of my stash.

I got the holes plugged, parts inletted and the pin hole drilled properly. I am thinking of putting it together and giving it as a prize at next year's shoot.

 

[Bob Riegl]

:v My H & A .36 Cal Heritage underhammer was just that a kit that was bought many years back and sat there. To my luck I bought for the proverbial good price and finished it. It is one of my prized possessions as Deer Creek stopped making them about 2 months later. The only one I prize more is my Dickert .50 made by Roy Stroh. :bow: :thumbsup:

 

[Vaino]

Met a guy a few months back that had a half stock "Hawken" kit that included a beautiful, burl walnut blank, a bbl w/ a very rusted bore, cross threaded breech threads and 2 each of the tangs, breeches, trigger plates and guards. Because of the wood, I looked everything over carefully and found that all the parts were "screwed up" and unuseable. This "kit" was purchased 25 yrs. ago and evidently nothing went "right" in his first attempt to build himself a "Hawken" rifle. Offered him a fair price for only the walnut blank which he refused to sell. Shortly thereafter, he sold the whole works for a surprizing amount of money......Fred