If you could have on (1) Traditional Muzzle loader

[akapennypincher]

What would it be? Can not be a Safe Queen, you must Shoot it.

Style?

Caliber or Gauge?

Barrel length?

Lock?

Flint or Cap Lock?

Build by who?

 

[Hunter66]

I infact plan to build a single gun just as you suggest.

A Hawken style rifle
The fanciest curly maple half stock I can get
62 caliber rifled
32 inch Rice barrel
L&R lock
Flint ignition
Built by me

I can hunt anything with a PRB from this gun from deer to elk or bear. I can use a load of #6 shot to kill the occasional squirrel or rabbit when we need meat for the pot. I know the rifled bore won't through great patterns with shot but it has worked before for me at short range.

 

[flintlock75]

Early English style
Walnut Burl Stock
.62 caliber, 1 smooth 1 rifled.
32" barrels
Swivel Breach
Flintlock
Sliding wood patchbox
Built by Jim Kruze
This would be the ultimate all purpose gun.
Big game and small.

 

[rabjr]

Man I would have a hard time not choosing my .12 smoothie which I absolutely love but I always said I was a rifleman first and foremost. So I'd probably have to go with the one thats on the drawing board and soon to be built.

Style? Why New England of course.

Caliber or Gauge? .58 cal

Barrel length? 34" tappered

Lock? Davis "Twigg"

Flint or Cap Lock? Flint

Build by who? Roy Stroh

 

[roundball]

What would it be? Can not be a Safe Queen, you must Shoot it.

Style?
Half stock Hawken

Caliber or Gauge?
.62cal smooth rifle

Barrel length?
33"

Lock?
Thompson/Center Arms

Flint or Cap Lock?
Flintlock

Build by who?
Thompson/Center Arms Hawken stock
Green Mountain smooth rifle drop-in barrel

A perfect example of the versatility is tomorrow morning:
I'm leaving the house loaded with patched ball to deer hunt from first light for a couple hours, then pull the ball, load cushion wad, shot, and OS card to go squirrel hunting. I have it worked out so I use the same 80grn Goex 3F powder charge for both, so switching is simple and fast.
:thumbsup:

 

[tg]

Circa 1730 French fusil, 44" barrel, Davis modified lock .58 bore, walnut stock, made mostly be me, ...it is hanging on the wall.

 

[walruskid1]

.45 heritage underhammer by H&A. i can hunt, plink, and do some serious target work. lyman 57 rear sight with a merit disc for target work. remove the disc and use just the threaded opening for a ghost ring for hunting.



underhammers forever!

 

[Roy]

I have decided that it is an impossible question, for a person who build muzzleloaders, to answer. :haha: :blah:

 

[akapennypincher]

Circa 1730 French fusil, 44" barrel, Davis modified lock .58 bore, walnut stock, made mostly be me, ...it is hanging on the wall.

A picture would be nice to see. :v

 

[Halftail]

:hmm:
Tough question.I'm thinking something Long,Flint,50 cal. with a swamped barrell.No idea what style though...maybe an Early Yorke with pretty wood of course.

 

[tg]

 

[MSW]

Mike Brooks had a really nice looking fowler just this morning... can't remember (latin for 'too lazy to look up') the thread. 20 guage smoothie, walnut stock. then as now, a great all purpose gun. jus one guy's opinion

 

[Many Klatch]

Brown Bess Carbine, .715 caliber. Pedersoli.

You can hunt anything on this Continent with it and it also takes a bayonet.

Many Klatch

 

[Flint311]

Nice question. Interesting to see mostly larger calibers. While I'd like to add a smooth bore, maybe a drop-in for my T/C, and love my .45 southern, here's mine:
Style: Hawkens
Caliber: .54
Barrel length: 32"
Lock/Style: Flint L&R
Built by: me, hopefully soon :wink:

 

[Stumpkiller]

What would it be? Can not be a Safe Queen, you must Shoot it.

Style? Early Lehigh, cherry stock, iron furniture (brass nose piece & patchbox).

Caliber or Gauge? .54, 1:66" twist

Barrel length? 44" L.C. Rice

Lock? Jim Chambers Early Germanic

Flint or Cap Lock? Flint (what was the other choice?)

Build by who? Mine happens to be by John Donelson. There are many others who are excellent choices. Budget can be a big factor, as can patience for a backlog, style knowledge and personality.

Cherry Girl is most of my m/l eggs in one basket. I've got a 1982 T/C Renegade that I might shoot a few times a year (or not at all for years at a time) and New Englander with the shotgun & rifle barrels that gets some use for hunting. That's it currently. Before I die I'd like a nice fowler, but I hope there's time. I had a great musket, a Kit Ravenshear fusil, but sold her to help fund this one. For me, the rifle worked out as a better all-in-one firelock. A deer hunting rifle I can put to other uses.

 

[jeepwj992002]

Ohio Vincent

.58 Cal Rifled and Smooth

36 inch

Goulcher

Caplock

Me

 

[Robert Egler]

Brown Bess Carbine, .715 caliber. Pedersoli.

You can hunt anything on this Continent with it and it also takes a bayonet.

Many Klatch

I agree with Many Klatch. Brown Bess Carbine, in flintlock.
-Squirrel Tail

 

[MikeChapin]

This is tough one. Like saying which of your children you prefer. But here goes ----

Style: J. Henry or Deringer trade rifle in .54 with a 42" 15/16" barrel.

Definitly a flintlock. Either a Chambers Late Ketland or L&R Durs Egg or Late Eglish lock.

Built by me.

 

[bucktales]

I can't answer the question. :surrender:
It's like asking a fisherman like myself to choose one rod.
Tough choice when your basement looks like a tackle store. :rotf:

 

[Stophel]

I'm not far from having "only one" as it is. I only own two of my own guns... both happen to be .54 smoothbore. I'druther have a rifle. I'll build myself one...eventually.

The carpenter's house is the one with the leaky roof...