Good finds at local pawn shop…

[UndeadPoet]

Ok, so I have previously bemoaned the fact that I never see any sidelocks at any of my local pawnshops or gun stores. Well, I stand corrected, as of today. I went into a local pawn shop and they had a .54 TC Hawken, a .54 CVA Mountain Rifle, a .56 TC Renegade smoothbore, a couple of civil war Enfields that had been sporterized, one with a Snyder conversion, and a .45 CVA Kentucky pistol from 1983. I made an offer on the Renegade and the Kentucky pistol, but only left with the pistol (which is actually, mostly what I was looking for anyway). It was a good day!

 

[deermanok]

Good deal. I found a CVA Mountain pistol in a pawn shop about 2 years ago. Paid 80 bucks for it.

 

[hanshi]

That's gonna be a lot of fun to shoot. I have a flintlock pistol and it's a blast. (sorry but couldn't help myself).

 

[Col. Batguano]

Because you never see them, when you actually DO they are likely to be reasonably priced. The shops obviously don't have that sort of a client base, so when they are buying, they are buying (cheap) for a quicker resale, because odds are it might lay around there a LONG time until "just the right guy" (like you) comes along. ML'ing is only 5%-10% of the overall firearms market, and about 80% of THAT is dominated by in-lines.

 

[dave951]

Looks like you scored. I haven't seen many muzzleloaders in pawn shops and those I did find were supposedly owned by Daniel Boone as he fought off the hostile Yankees as he single handed won the battle of Bunker Hill just before he shot a Boone and Crockett record white tail on a hunt with Teddy Roosevelt while looking for Louis and Clark a couple years ago and are worth very big bucks. Yup, the grasp of history in most pawn shops is about that sketchy.

 

[R Ellis]

A lot of Pawn Shops will not buy or pawn black powder guns

 

[UndeadPoet]

A lot of Pawn Shops will not buy or pawn black powder guns

A friend of mine works for a different pawn and guns store, and he says the owner doesn’t carry traditional black powder weapons because he doesn’t think there is much of a market in it. I tell him, I would buy stuff, but it doesn’t seem to be enough…

 

[UndeadPoet]

Ok, so I have previously bemoaned the fact that I never see any sidelocks at any of my local pawnshops or gun stores. Well, I stand corrected, as of today. I went into a local pawn shop and they had a .54 TC Hawken, a .54 CVA Mountain Rifle, a .56 TC Renegade smoothbore, a couple of civil war Enfields that had been sporterized, one with a Snyder conversion, and a .45 CVA Kentucky pistol from 1983. I made an offer on the Renegade and the Kentucky pistol, but only left with the pistol (which is actually, mostly what I was looking for anyway). It was a good day!

It’s funny, but I just noticed that the barrel on the Kentucky looks blued in these pictures, but it is actually nicely browned…

 

[Kansas Jake]

A lot of Pawn Shops will not buy or pawn black powder guns

That is what I hear from most pawn shops in this area. Once in a great while they will have something. I suspect it came as part of a lot.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

Should have grabbed the T/C Hawken. They seem to be in pretty high demand.

 

[UndeadPoet]

I considered buying them all, but I didn’t really “need” any. I already have a .54 T/C Hawken from 1981.

 

[stephenprops1]

I work in a gun shop in Ohio. The store owners don't care much for black powder guns. However, we do occasionally get used percussion muzzle loaders in on trades and estate purchases. (We sometimes get a few inlines for deer season.) Yesterday I sold a used T/C Hawken 50 caliber rifle to a happy customer. We still have a 50 caliber T/C Seneca on the shelf.

 

[Grenadier1758]

@stephenprops1,

Somethings not quite right about a 50 caliber T/C Seneca. If I remember correctly, the maximum caliber was 45.