Pennsylvania/Kentucky Long Rifle

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I'm looking to add one to the herd (another victim of the "Holy Black" disease). I'm after a "user" - read affordable, and it must be percussion fired. I was thinking 50 caliber. Does anyone know of a Canadian supplier of modern reproductions that are reasonably priced? Thanks in advance.
 
Yup, I'm set on the long rifle style in percussion. Most of the stuff I have been finding is collector grade, custom boutique builds. All very beautiful, with associated price tags. I'm looking for something I can use and not worry about putting "character" marks on it.
 
Since when can TOTW and Dixie not ship kits? I have been buying parts, including pistol barrels from them for more than 5 years and they ship it all - no border problems ever.
 
Flawed is an understatement.

Just fooling around with TOTW kit builder, and it looks like I'd be into it for around $1K USD. Not cheap, but this hobby never was. A guy might have to make it out some of the BP shoots in the area this summer (if we actually get a summer this year) and make some contacts.
 
Go to the Alberta Black Powder Association website. There are BP shoots around Alberta, BC and Sask beginning in a week or so through Thanksgiving.
 
I bought a Traditions Kentucky rifle Precussion kit at Bass pro shop in Calgary about 1 1/2 yr ago kit is not too hard. I have yet to fire the rifle but look forward to it. Check out their web site.
 
There are lots of Canadian choices. Rusty Wood carries quite a selection. Pdersoli is available here and makes what you want. The sell forum on here has a BP section and has a number of rifles for sale that seem to fit what you are looking for. As for caliber, game bigger than deer I would go 54 if I could. Deer 40 to 50 works fine, check your local min, here in Alberta you need a 45 or bigger to hunt big game.
 
I went through this a while back myself. In the end the only reasonable "budget" option came down to Traditions. There's the smoothbore Indian stuff but I decided that I didn't want to take the chance on those. I found and bought an Armi Sport (sub brand of Chiappa) and I heartily recommend avoiding these like the plague. The lock was useless and flawed from beginning to end. And as you're finding out the kits from TOTW and other similar providers end up being well up there in price by the time you put something together.

Which means that for roughly in the $400 to $600 range we're left with Traditions.

The Traditions web site does show percussion versions for both their Kentucky and Pennsylvania rifles. So they can be had. The question is if any are in Canada. I know that a LGS near me typicaly has one or two made up Traditions rifles kicking around. And one of those was a long wood Kentucky style some years back. But since then when they did have one it was always one of the Hawken styles.

And I did notice that Epps handles Traditions. Maybe email or call them and ask about what the wait time is like to order up a percussion Kentucky mode.
 
Thanks for the input guys. I will have to check those leads out. I am still looking, but at a less than frantic pace now. I picked up a 50BMG, and have a new AR on my plate. So many wants, and so little money...
 
As the owner and user of quite a few traditional BP shooters, depending on what you want to do with it, I'd suggest you look at a .45. With round ball and 30 gr. of fffG, it works great for small game and fun target shooting - splitting balls against an axe, etc., and it hits about the same point of impact as a 250 gr. Maxi ahead of 70 gr. of powder. The maxi is potent medicine for anything up to moose.
 
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