does anyone still make useable muskets? where would i get musket balls? also how do you know how much gunpowder to use?

of course i'd want the fixable bayonet as well.

also if you guys have information on carrying laws for muskets, that'd be really helpful.

thanks!

LOAD! READY! AIM! FIRE! FIX BAYONETS! CHARGE!!!

cabela's sells hawken kits and fully built hawken rifles. there are also several other places online you can find them, just do a websearch for "muzzle loader"

Google will be helpful too.

instead of searching impersonally on google, i'd rather listen to the helpful and tongue in cheek advice of the wonderful smart people on illstreet

any mega sports store.

Asian+musket=LMFAO!


You have to post a vid if you get one.

instead of searching impersonally on google, i'd rather listen to the helpful and tongue in cheek advice of the wonderful smart people on illstreet

Hhahahaha, screw you all! i acually have a civil war or earlier period musket that will work with some repair. I would be willing to sell it if the price was right. Ill have to do some research to detirmine what its worth but if you throw out a decent price i may part with it. This is the real deal octogon barrel and everything. It is VERY old.

I have a friend that claims to enjoy shooting his .45 muzzle loading rifle. I've known him 14 years and don't think he's shot it once in those 14 years. I like technology myself so it's cartridge weapons for me. A coworker loaned me a Lyman reloading book that has a lot of black powder info. Wouldn't be a bad place to start.

http://www.lymanproducts.com/lymanproducts/books.htm

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Hhahahaha, screw you all! i acually have a civil war or earlier period musket that will work with some repair. I would be willing to sell it if the price was right. Ill have to do some research to detirmine what its worth but if you throw out a decent price i may part with it. This is the real deal octogon barrel and everything. It is VERY old.

i don't know nearly enough about any kind of gun engineeering to fix an old gun and shoot it without fear of it blowing up in my face.

an old antique like that would be better served by restoring it and going on that pbs show where people bring in their grandparents shit and they find out its worth $50k.

I have a friend that claims to enjoy shooting his .45 muzzle loading rifle. I've known him 14 years and don't think he's shot it once in those 14 years. I like technology myself so it's cartridge weapons for me. A coworker loaned me a Lyman reloading book that has a lot of black powder info. Wouldn't be a bad place to start.

http://www.lymanproducts.com/lymanproducts/books.htm

1/2 way down the page

thanks for the info man...

damn i have to learn stuff? i just want to shoot shit. :(

i don't know nearly enough about any kind of gun engineeering to fix an old gun and shoot it without fear of it blowing up in my face.

an old antique like that would be better served by restoring it and going on that pbs show where people bring in their grandparents shit and they find out its worth $50k.

damn, worth a shot! the thing is in ok shape but i would sure as hell not shoot it until i had it checked out. a museum currator told me the antique/museum line would be the best way to go and probably be profitable especially if i had lineage and a story. to bad everyone in my family dies early and without a will and family histories written down!

solution : make up a story "told to you through your grandfather and his father before him" etc.

Do you want a musket, or a muzzleloading rifle? There is a distinction (at least around here). A musket is generally a smoothbore barrel. You load powder, then ball, prime and fire. It's meant to be a rank and file lead slinger, hurling great numbers at an opposing enemy that also is.. in rank and file line.

A muzzleloading rifle on the other hand is a rifled barrel. I have two of those. One is a percussion cap and the other is a flintlock. The percussion is a Thompsons Hawkens model, .50cal. I use a Green Mountain 1:72 twist barrel with Lyman peep sights. It is capable of propelling a patched roundball out to 100+ yards with great accuracy. There are a lot of tricks to getting them 'worked up' to do this, but the work is worth the reward.

Here was a contest to see who could blow the center of the bulls-eye out in 25 rounds or so..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Threerun533/50caltarget.jpg