How Much Is Too Much?

[musketman]

What is the upper end you are willing to pay for a custom muzzleloader made for yourself?

Assuming it has everything you've ever wanted in a muzzleloader and is masterfully crafted, perfect in every detail...

How much is too much?

$1000.00 is my top end...

This is not a post to find out how much money anyone has, it is just to find out what people in general think custom muzzleloaders are worth (to them) as a buyer in today's market...

Yes, you do get what you pay for, but it shouldn't cost as much as a house either...

I'm sure you could find someone out there willing to make you something for $10,000.00 or more, but what are YOU willing to pay?

 

[Rocky Johnson]

My fowler was about a $1000 in the white. When you look at the price of components it didn't look too bad to me. Rocky /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[roundball]

The most expensive muzzleloader I own is the first one I ever bought: one of the early deluxe Knight MK85 inline models for $500, and I put a $500 Leupold scope on it...so I've invested $1000 in a muzzleloader already...the bad news it's laid oiled in it's case for years since I discovered sidelock percussions, then flintlocks.
$1000 would certainly be my max for a rifle alone.

 

[Stumpkiller]

$2,325 and holding for a 'nice' Lehigh rifle. Chambers lock & LC Rice swamped & crowned barrel but everything else is to be forged, cast or cut by the gunsmith (John Donelson). I'm putting most of my eggs in one basket. Even this will have fairly minimal engraving and carving. I funded it by thinning the 'herd' and that kind of hurt (especially my Ravenshear fusil).


The buttplate and triggerguard:

 

[bob1961]

i've priced some parts for one i'd like to build for about $700.00....with the cost of my T/C hawken and the new stock minus the time i put into it....there's $650.00+ in it now....so for a couple of hundred for labor i guess it would be about $1,000.00 to $1,300.00.............bob

 

[Deadeye]

I'd would probably pay as much as $2500 for a rifle made to my specs but that would be about a $5000 rifle or more.

 

[Liver eatin’ Johnson]

I've probably got about that much invested in my back action .54 halfstock. But I wanted a custom gun that was really different from what you normally see replicated. I REALLY appreciate the beauty and workmanship of custom guns but would probably not spend that much on a "look-alike" copy at this time in my life... :winking:

 

[musketman]

I REALLY appreciate the beauty and workmanship of custom guns but would probably not spend that much on a "look-alike" copy at this time in my life...

Let's see, a custom muzzleloader or fill the tank up with high-test gas...

Both cost the same... :shocking:
(6 months ago, people would have thought I was joking)

 

[roundball]

Looks like a slightly modified TC Hawken trigger guard, a heavily modified or fashioned after a TC Hawken patch box, and a TC Seneca butt plate...?

 

[Liver eatin’ Johnson]

Close roundball but no cigar :winking: modified TC trigger guard-yes, scratch built capbox of my own design. ( brass buttplate was just a random selection for desired width and curve ) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[roundball]

Sure is a beautiful job...looks like it has the kind of drop at the heel I wish mine had...

 

Considering what I gave for a couple double rifles, I don't know. It would depend on the rifle and maker I suppose.

Vic