Kibler and Kits

Get'em while they're hot.

I’d already have one Kibler (or possibly more) if they would make a percussion lock.

Frulk said:

I’d already have one Kibler (or possibly more) if they would make a percussion lock.

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You owe it to yourself to try a good flintlock.

Stop it its hard enough to save up for the fowler when it comes out.

Frulk said:

I’d already have one Kibler (or possibly more) if they would make a percussion lock.

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hawg said:

You owe it to yourself to try a good flintlock.

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Try before you buy. I bought a Woodsrunner but wish I'd saved my money. I found the flintlock to be more novelty than practical or useful. Never again.

What could be more practical?

They don’t make big enough tubes for me. Is 54 cal really as big as they go for rifles?

The Fowler is close but a 10 ga would have probably found my money.

earlthegoat2 said:

They don’t make big enough tubes for me. Is 54 cal really as big as they go for rifles?

The Fowler is close but a 10 ga would have probably found my money.

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They go 58, a 10ga you would have to pretty much make a whole new gun,

earlthegoat2 said:

They don’t make big enough tubes for me. Is 54 cal really as big as they go for rifles?

The Fowler is close but a 10 ga would have probably found my money.

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.58 for the Colonial, .54 for the Woodsrunner.

thirty-eight said:

I found the flintlock to be more novelty than practical or useful. Never again.

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The flintlock requires a crazy-high level of attention to detail...which is why us OCD people love them. For sure, for some or many, I'd not recommend the flintlock.

They are however, 100% reliable, which is as practical as a percussion lock, or a .30-30 for that matter.

Something like that. Perhaps, ATDD, Attention to detail disorder. !!

I'm glad I don't have either of them.

thirty-eight said:

Try before you buy. I bought a Woodsrunner but wish I'd saved my money. I found the flintlock to be more novelty than practical or useful. Never again.

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Did you use Pyrodex? That'd be enough to turn anybody off a flintlock. You need real BP.

hawg said:

I'm glad I don't have either of them.

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I think I have just a little bit of everything.

I do NOT have AD... look a squirr....ooo shiney...do you smell donu...that's pretty....

hawg said:

I do NOT have AD... look a squirr....ooo shiney...do you smell donu...that's pretty....

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Oh look! My spark plug wires would look better routed that way, than this. I must re-route them!! I think the brake pedal on my UL would look better if it was one inch shorter. Don't have AD...but I'm gonna spend two hours cutting it with a hacksaw, filing, and welding it back together. Then painting it. Oh look...it looks about the same! The struggle is real.

desidog said:

Did you use Pyrodex? That'd be enough to turn anybody off a flintlock. You need real BP.

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Yes, Pyrodex in a flintlock is neither useful or practical. Or functional.

I would LOVE one. I just can not come up with the $$$$

I dunno what to make of the flintlock comments. Yeah, they take some figuring, but once you've done that, they're easy and reliable. And frankly, the only affordable and easily available reloading components, these days, are blackpowder and flint. Smokeless, primers, caps, etc. are all catch-as-catch-can. And worse comes to worst, I can make bp and find some rocks laying around. Whipping up a batch of 2400 would be a bit of a trick.

Having said all that, I'm still buying a Kibler Hawken the instant they come out.