Kyle Kalasnik
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Aug 3, 2014
- Location
- Potter County, PA
I am looking to purchase a American Revolution era to Civil War era reproduction musket or rifle. The purpose of this firearm will be for recreational target shooting.
Although I own and am very well versed and comfortable with safely using modern firearms, I am very unfamiliar with black powder. I have fired off a few rounds of a friends “modern flintlock”, and have been doing lots of reading and research on how to properly and safely handle, load, fire, clean, and maintain flintlocks and percussions
I am wondering should I start with a percussion or a flintlock, as I previously said I am novice when it comes to this and like to approach anything “potentially dangerous” with caution.
I have an original 1842 Springfield Smoothbore (made in 1844j that hangs in my man cave, but I would never attempt to fire it.
As far as the reproduction aspect, I just love the looks of the reproductions whether they are 1861 Springfields, 1842 Springfields, 1816 Springfields, Harpers Ferry models, Brown Besses, Kentucky / Pennsylvania Rifles, Committees of Safety, etc...
I figured that since I’m gonna spend this amount on a firearm, I might as well spend a few more bucks, because I would like to get it defarbed ( is that even a wise idea?). Basically I want an classic black powder firearm, that is reliable and well built.
So the long and short of it Is, what do you all recommend? Manufacturers? Models? Flintlock or percussion? Smoothbore or rifled? Defarbed or not? And any other advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for you time.
Although I own and am very well versed and comfortable with safely using modern firearms, I am very unfamiliar with black powder. I have fired off a few rounds of a friends “modern flintlock”, and have been doing lots of reading and research on how to properly and safely handle, load, fire, clean, and maintain flintlocks and percussions
I am wondering should I start with a percussion or a flintlock, as I previously said I am novice when it comes to this and like to approach anything “potentially dangerous” with caution.
I have an original 1842 Springfield Smoothbore (made in 1844j that hangs in my man cave, but I would never attempt to fire it.
As far as the reproduction aspect, I just love the looks of the reproductions whether they are 1861 Springfields, 1842 Springfields, 1816 Springfields, Harpers Ferry models, Brown Besses, Kentucky / Pennsylvania Rifles, Committees of Safety, etc...
I figured that since I’m gonna spend this amount on a firearm, I might as well spend a few more bucks, because I would like to get it defarbed ( is that even a wise idea?). Basically I want an classic black powder firearm, that is reliable and well built.
So the long and short of it Is, what do you all recommend? Manufacturers? Models? Flintlock or percussion? Smoothbore or rifled? Defarbed or not? And any other advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for you time.