Traditions Kit gun at Cabela's

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

I bought a pile of jukar flintlock rifle parts a number of years back for $20. The barrel is sound with no bulges, everything with the exception of the forend half of the stock is "there".

Is the barrel of a high enough quality to justify restocking it to a low grade blank with a lock upgrade...and maybe a couple of other parts, or should my jukar parts remain on the shelf of bad ideas?

Thank you.

 

[Crewdawg445]

Why would it be a bad idea? I'd rather have a bad idea than no idea, shows your brain is working.

I built one of my most accurate rifles off an old traditions barrel, dressed with a nice grade 2 maple stock. These types of builds IMO are some of my favorites.

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

Why would it be a bad idea?

I understand that modern Jukars (CVA and Traditions) are made with a quality barrel, but I am not sure if the older Jukar barrels (when they were just importing the rifles as Jukar) were made to the same standards of quality? I have heard that the 70's Jukars were very sporadic in quality?

Thank you.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I bought a pile of jukar flintlock rifle parts a number of years back for $20. The barrel is sound with no bulges, everything with the exception of the forend half of the stock is "there".

Is the barrel of a high enough quality to justify restocking it to a low grade blank with a lock upgrade...and maybe a couple of other parts, or should my jukar parts remain on the shelf of bad ideas?

Thank you.

Buy a forend stock off eBay and the gun lives again.

Jukar made extremely accurate barrels.