Good morning from upstate SC

[brushyspoons]

Hello all, I've been lurking and learning as much as I can from these forums for a little over a month now and just pulled the trigger on ordering parts to build my first muzzleloader this week. I've been hunting most of my life with centerfire rifles, and my grandfather who introduced me to hunting and shooting built a handful of muzzleloaders in the early 70s with Bill Large barrels. By the time I was old enough to hunt around the turn of the century he had long since moved on from black powder, but seeing the longrifles he built whenever he pulled them out of the safe seems to have planted a seed in my mind that I wanted to do the same. Between the news of the Goex plant continuing black powder production, threads here and elsewhere painting a bleak picture for steel prices, and more parts showing up as backordered or just plain out of stock online, I figured now was high time to get moving on a build of my own. It will be a .32 flintlock Tennessee rifle, I'm working from a blank and have TOTW's Tennessee Longrifle plan drawing to hopefully guide me along to something that resembles a rifle. I hope to have it done by October to show to the squirrels at the local WMA when their season opens up, but it will take as long as it takes. Thanks all, and I hope to be seeing a lot of you over at the Gun Builder's Bench subforum here in about a week's time.

 

[Mtman725]

Welcome, myself as well a 35 years between builds as well, I do enjoy working on them, looking to build or buy a .54 with elk in mind.

 

[nit wit]

Welcome from Maine
Nit Wit

 

[deermanok]

Welcome from Oklahoma.

 

[thomas]

Welcome to the forum.
Thomas

 

[moose23]

Welcome from Beaver County PA. Good luck with the build!

 

[UndeadPoet]

Welcome, from the North Carolina Piedmont. Good luck!

‘Poet

 

[springfield art]

Hello all, I've been lurking and learning as much as I can from these forums for a little over a month now and just pulled the trigger on ordering parts to build my first muzzleloader this week. I've been hunting most of my life with centerfire rifles, and my grandfather who introduced me to hunting and shooting built a handful of muzzleloaders in the early 70s with Bill Large barrels. By the time I was old enough to hunt around the turn of the century he had long since moved on from black powder, but seeing the longrifles he built whenever he pulled them out of the safe seems to have planted a seed in my mind that I wanted to do the same. Between the news of the Goex plant continuing black powder production, threads here and elsewhere painting a bleak picture for steel prices, and more parts showing up as backordered or just plain out of stock online, I figured now was high time to get moving on a build of my own. It will be a .32 flintlock Tennessee rifle, I'm working from a blank and have TOTW's Tennessee Longrifle plan drawing to hopefully guide me along to something that resembles a rifle. I hope to have it done by October to show to the squirrels at the local WMA when their season opens up, but it will take as long as it takes. Thanks all, and I hope to be seeing a lot of you over at the Gun Builder's Bench subforum here in about a week's time.

Sounds great! I was at Ft. Gordon in the 60's, and it was a short hop over to Edgefield, SC. I've often read the name Bill Large relative to barrels; obviously a quality product. Best of luck!

 

[kelljp]

Welcome from East TN

 

[Old Timer 48]

Welcome!

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Welcome from Alberta.

 

[D. Buck Stopshere]

Welcome from south central North Carolina.

There is a muzzleloading gun club in the Fountain Inn area.

 

[zerosprk]

Hi and welcome from upstate New Mexico. Way to jump in with both feet on your build project, good luck!!!

 

[toot]

Welcome.

 

[Lee44ShooterCnB]

Welcome

 

[Eterry]

Howdy from snowy north Texas, and welcome to the forum. I finished a left hand early Lancaster from a blank a couple years ago. My mentor said to just take everything off the blank that doesn't look like a gun!! good luck on your build.

 

[Dakota459]

Welcome from South Carolina

 

[Mrbill55]

Hello all, I've been lurking and learning as much as I can from these forums for a little over a month now and just pulled the trigger on ordering parts to build my first muzzleloader this week. I've been hunting most of my life with centerfire rifles, and my grandfather who introduced me to hunting and shooting built a handful of muzzleloaders in the early 70s with Bill Large barrels. By the time I was old enough to hunt around the turn of the century he had long since moved on from black powder, but seeing the longrifles he built whenever he pulled them out of the safe seems to have planted a seed in my mind that I wanted to do the same. Between the news of the Goex plant continuing black powder production, threads here and elsewhere painting a bleak picture for steel prices, and more parts showing up as backordered or just plain out of stock online, I figured now was high time to get moving on a build of my own. It will be a .32 flintlock Tennessee rifle, I'm working from a blank and have TOTW's Tennessee Longrifle plan drawing to hopefully guide me along to something that resembles a rifle. I hope to have it done by October to show to the squirrels at the local WMA when their season opens up, but it will take as long as it takes. Thanks all, and I hope to be seeing a lot of you over at the Gun Builder's Bench subforum here in about a week's time.

Clearly great minds think alike, just joined a day ago, also in the upstate.

Bill