Bolts are typically not a great thread fit. I would not use a bolt, but buy a split die and thread a rod to a good fit.
Is this an announcement?I'm not against percussion. The next kit offering will be a percussion Hawken styled rifle.
Makes one wonder what projects will be in-between now and a long ways away . . .hmmmAll I can say is that it might happen someday, but that someday is probably a LONG ways away.
32 TPI drums?You can buy threaded drums off of TOTW, that and a different hammer, how hard could it be.
TOTW doesn't offer a 5/16-32 threaded drum.You can buy threaded drums off of TOTW, that and a different hammer, how hard could it be.
My wife said if your Hawken was available in January 2025, she would get me one for my 60th birthday.I'm not against percussion. The next kit offering will be a percussion Hawken styled rifle.
Oh crud!!!!TOTW doesn't offer a 5/16-32 threaded drum.
I may be wrong in this statement.Oh crud!!!!
You may actually have to use a different size! The horrors!
Just remember (history repeats itself) I can remember when caps were cheap (AND available ) HA !I fully understand and appreciate Jim Kiblers rational for being a flintlock only (at the time) business. It appears as if he is running at capacity as it is and everything seems to be working fine. Flintlock folks like them and they are high quality. Nothing broken with Kiblers business model. The man knows his business.
I’m also of the opinion that there was a darn good reason why many flintlocks were converted back in the day to percussions after percussion caps became available. Flintlocks were seldom produced or seen after that. Yet percussion rifles were still muzzleloaders and remained that way until cartridge and breech rifles became available.
As I have said many times, flintlocks are not for everyone and I happen to be one of such. Make no mistake about it, percussion locks are an improvement over flintlocks. If that were not the case then percussion locks would not have become so popular in such a short amount of time from about 1830 onwards. It’s now all about nostalgia.
I find it sad that we are so limited in the traditional muzzleloader world today, but it is what it is and nothing I can say will change that.
I asked him about doing this; nope....You may want to request the barrel not be drilled and threaded for the touch hole liner...
Conversion kits for your existing lines if practical would be overly welcomed by many on these forums and others I see and a potential winfall to your bottom line. This thread makes me wonder why no one has done it yet.So, we don't have any current plans to make a percussion option. All I can say is that it might happen someday, but that someday is probably a LONG ways away.
Conversion kits for your existing lines if practical would be overly welcomed by many on these forums and others I see and a potential winfall to your bottom line. This thread makes me wonder why no one has done it yet.So, we don't have any current plans to make a percussion option. All I can say is that it might happen someday, but that someday is probably a LONG ways away.
About 3 years ago, I had commented in one of Jim's YT vids if he had considered a Hawken, and he said that it would be coming someday, so not entirely new news, but at least it confirms that his plans didn't get scrapped over that span of time, just delayed a bit...Is this an announcement?![]()
My old boss in the pressroom (who converted this then innocent 10 yr old paper boy) had a really sweet CVA Mt rifle he tried to sell me for $65.00 I wouldn't bite as it had never been fired and the firing was attempted many hundreds of times. I had no clue one could get a frizzen or entire lock for it. Asked him about it a few years ago and he had sold almost all his BP to some other guy. Sure wished I had this forum at age 10 (that would have been weird though since there was no public PC of any kind available LOL).Years ago I had a .32 cal. flinter in the Bedford Co. style, lock wasn't very good, couldn't get a spark for nothing! I took it to a great builder in the Lehigh Valley area, George Dech and he converted it to percussion, worked great after that but that would be the only reason to have one converted in my mind.
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