ratshooter i too love 45 caliber and just sold my last 50 and 54 caliber guns and only have 45 flintlock rifle a kit i did year before last a traditions kentucky rifle 45 caliber flintlock and last year i killed a deer with it and will be back out this upcoming fall can't wait until it gets here! but yeah i love 45 caliber rifles and pistols and i like doing the kits they are fun to do!!Here are a few pictures of my new CVA pistol I built from a kit I found on Gunbroker. I paid $136 for the kit including shipping. I guess I have around 20 hours in the build. It turned out OK. Not the best but good enough for my kind of shooting. Its in .45 caliber. My favorite caliber.
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ratshooter i too love 45 caliber and just sold my last 50 and 54 caliber guns and only have 45 flintlock rifle a kit i did year before last a traditions kentucky rifle 45 caliber flintlock and last year i killed a deer with it and will be back out this upcoming fall can't wait until it gets here! but yeah i love 45 caliber rifles and pistols and i like doing the kits they are fun to do!!!
Looks great to me! I built a few CVA kits back in the 80's and none looked that good. Course I was 14 and working with butter knives and potato peelers as tools.
I think the most fun hunting with a muzzle loader is the " trade guns". Mine is a 12ga but most guys use a 20ga. You'll feel a lot of pride getting a deer with a flintlock smooth bore and no rear sight. Everyone I know limits their shots to around 50 yards. At one time I shot a lot of TG matches with my friends and that was about the limit for a killing shot. Oh, we hit targets out to a 100 yards, but those were just hits somewhere on a metal target. About 10 years ago I shot a deer with my home made matchlock. It took two years to finally get a shot with it. A .715 RB drops a deer in it's tracks.