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Hey all, an Ohioan Here, started shooting ML'ers when I was 15, when my parents gifted me a traditions flintlock (old model PA Pellet). ML'ers are pretty much all I've shot since the army, don't really miss the modern guns all that much. Don't get me wrong, they're useful, but there's something about muzzle loading guns...
All in all, I've built about 30 guns over the last 8 years or so, most of them were sold. I generally make hunting Germanic/Austrian architecture rifles and Smoothbores (although mid-1700's and 1850's-70's inlines, SMR and scheutzen styled guns are worming their way into my interests, lately). The rifles are normally Bullet-rifles, and many of the Smooths were reamed and tapped for modern chokes (why not?). Most of the Stocks are my own laminates (Hey- Maple, with Bloodwood and Ironwood looks nice lol). I'd guess you could say I mostly make old-school type guns with a modern twist?
Wife and I moved up to the Toledo area a few years ago, started our own veg. and fruit farm, been primarily focused on getting it up and running. Had to leave a lot of the tools I was using with my family, as they were theirs lol; and hopefully next year (2022) I can get my shop set up and start turning out guns in the winter months (has to be better than working at Amazon or Fedex over the winter lol).
Current personal rainy day project: reprofiling that 26", 1"Oct Traditions barrel to Oct-round, tapered; making a cheap stock for it (an experimental $23 plywood stock, just to see how it'd go, it's turning out pretty good, not pretty by any imagination lol), and getting it up to my standards (original lock placement was horrible, ended up gas-cutting a gouge in the bottom of the pan lol). Barrel's inlet, Rammer's channel's inlet, Stocks mostly shaped. just need to get/make furniture, useful sights, and finish inletting the lock parts!
Been curious about smokeless ML'ers, off and on, as well, looks like this may be the right place to learn a bit about it.
Had been involved on another ML forum, but I suspect that I'll be hanging out here more. Too many "traditional extremists", as Doc White put it, can't have a decent discussion of Non-Disney-Davey-Crocket guns without at least one of them trying to commandeer it. This site seems to have enough room for everyone, or at least everyone has enough room that they walk on by a conversation that isn't their thing. Happy to be here, there looks like there's a lot of good people!
All in all, I've built about 30 guns over the last 8 years or so, most of them were sold. I generally make hunting Germanic/Austrian architecture rifles and Smoothbores (although mid-1700's and 1850's-70's inlines, SMR and scheutzen styled guns are worming their way into my interests, lately). The rifles are normally Bullet-rifles, and many of the Smooths were reamed and tapped for modern chokes (why not?). Most of the Stocks are my own laminates (Hey- Maple, with Bloodwood and Ironwood looks nice lol). I'd guess you could say I mostly make old-school type guns with a modern twist?
Wife and I moved up to the Toledo area a few years ago, started our own veg. and fruit farm, been primarily focused on getting it up and running. Had to leave a lot of the tools I was using with my family, as they were theirs lol; and hopefully next year (2022) I can get my shop set up and start turning out guns in the winter months (has to be better than working at Amazon or Fedex over the winter lol).
Current personal rainy day project: reprofiling that 26", 1"Oct Traditions barrel to Oct-round, tapered; making a cheap stock for it (an experimental $23 plywood stock, just to see how it'd go, it's turning out pretty good, not pretty by any imagination lol), and getting it up to my standards (original lock placement was horrible, ended up gas-cutting a gouge in the bottom of the pan lol). Barrel's inlet, Rammer's channel's inlet, Stocks mostly shaped. just need to get/make furniture, useful sights, and finish inletting the lock parts!
Been curious about smokeless ML'ers, off and on, as well, looks like this may be the right place to learn a bit about it.
Had been involved on another ML forum, but I suspect that I'll be hanging out here more. Too many "traditional extremists", as Doc White put it, can't have a decent discussion of Non-Disney-Davey-Crocket guns without at least one of them trying to commandeer it. This site seems to have enough room for everyone, or at least everyone has enough room that they walk on by a conversation that isn't their thing. Happy to be here, there looks like there's a lot of good people!