When did muzzleloaders fade out in the old days?

[RedFeather]

Bannerman's reinforced their concrete seawall with musket barrels for rebar. That must have been some trip in the 40's! Sadly, everything goes sooner or later. There is a shop in Alexandria, VA right next to the old InterArms warehouses (also gone) that fairly bristled with surplus guns when I was a kid in the 60's. I went in there last month and it was bare bones. Gone to either wholesailing or surplus stuff.

RedFeather

 

[Joel/Calgary]

I can recall reading an article in the 60's in one of the gun mags, possibly American Rifleman, of an African native gunsmith in one of the then-colonies constructing a flintlock smoothbore using an automotive steering column for a barrel and fabricating everything with simple hand tools - hammer, file, likely saw. Just like Peshawar.

Joel