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march1781

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I am Trying to find a good website to buy a kentucky rifle or a kit. I want a not expensive one and i just dont know where to find a kit or a gun. If you could tell me where to find one That would be great.
Justin
 
Try Dixie Gun Works for an inexpensive kit like Traditions or Pedersoli. I bought my Pedersoli kit there.
 
There are cheap kits, and there are good kits, but there are no good cheap kits. RockyJ has a good suggestion though. Tip Curtis, or TVM will give you a decent gun "in the white", at a decent price. If you want a kit that is the easiest to build, and of the highest quality, and with the best chance of good success, JIM CHAMBERS.
 
Deer Creek has some. ph.765-525-6181. No web site. There Traditions Kentucky kit is 199.00. Dilly
 
TVM - Tennesee Valley Manufacturing - Jack Garner has quality parts sets, these require a fair amount of work but are every bit as nice as the others. Last set I purchased came to about $600.00 deliverd, 38" swamped an tapered Lancaster with brass furniture.

Depends on the amount of work you feel comfortable with. I prefer only the barrel and ram rod inletted, it gives me more freedom in designing the build. Of course I am gravitating towards blanks now as that is the ultimate freedom.
Chambers makes a nice product, but it is a kit in practically the same way a Lyman, Traditions, T/C is a kit. The majority of the work is completed for you and the price is just shy of $1000.
 
march1781 said:
I am Trying to find a good website to buy a kentucky rifle or a kit. I want a not expensive one and i just dont know where to find a kit or a gun. If you could tell me where to find one That would be great.
Justin

If you want a Kentucky rifle kit you will have to spend some money. JIm Chambers would be my first choice. There are others.
If you want a cheap generic ML then go to the import stuff. But don't call it a "Kentucky" its comparable to the cheap mass produced junk Leman produced, the subsidiary Connestoga Rifle Works made some real "gems".
But its not a Kentucky no matter what moniker they put on the box to sell it.
You simply cannot have it both ways. There are not good cheap MLs. You might check TVM's finished guns.

Dan
 
ApprenticeBuilder said:
TVM - Tennesee Valley Manufacturing - Jack Garner has quality parts sets, these require a fair amount of work but are every bit as nice as the others. Last set I purchased came to about $600.00 deliverd, 38" swamped an tapered Lancaster with brass furniture.

Depends on the amount of work you feel comfortable with. I prefer only the barrel and ram rod inletted, it gives me more freedom in designing the build. Of course I am gravitating towards blanks now as that is the ultimate freedom.
Chambers makes a nice product, but it is a kit in practically the same way a Lyman, Traditions, T/C is a kit. The majority of the work is completed for you and the price is just shy of $1000.

Mentioning Lyman and these others in the same sentence with the kits Jim Chambers produces shows a lack of understanding.

The T/C will be a T/C no matter what. The Chambers kits are semi-completed traditional rifles that will finish as historically correct firearms of the type chosen with best quality parts throughout.
The Lyman, Traditions and TC stuff makes a ML nothing more, they are neither historically correct or high quality. They were created for those who want a ML at the lowest price.

Dan
 
Mentioning Lyman and these others in the same sentence with the kits Jim Chambers produces shows a lack of understanding.
I would guess that the lack of understanding is yours. The mentioning of Chambers kits in the same sentence as T/C or Lyman was in reference to the amount of work already completed, not the quality of the product. :wink:
 
You get what you pay for!

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Another vote for Jim Chambers as their website is amazing and I hear nothing but great reports about them.

When get around to making one of my own in the future, it'll be a Chambers kit I go with.

Doc
 
:grin: Sitting Fox. Ray will really work with you. GUNN
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I appreciate your interest, unfortunatly I sold it at a trade show the first part of March, that rifle was produced from a $370.00 parts set.

The pictures were just to show that you can build a beautiful rifle out of a set of parts that don't cost $1000.

If your building for a living and mass production is your game then Chambers cannot be beat, about 8 hrs production time for a plain rifle.
 
ApprenticeBuilder said:
Mentioning Lyman and these others in the same sentence with the kits Jim Chambers produces shows a lack of understanding.
I would guess that the lack of understanding is yours. The mentioning of Chambers kits in the same sentence as T/C or Lyman was in reference to the amount of work already completed, not the quality of the product. :wink:

I, kind of, misunderstood your first reference to Chambers and T/C as well. I cut my teeth on a T/C and a Lyman back in the 80's and probably had about 8-10 hours in each of them from start to finish. The Chamber's Isaac Haines I built is a completely different story. Even though it is "90%" complete, I know I have at least 120 hours in it from start to finish even though it was not technically my first "kit" gun.
 
that is a nice gun, and what you say is true, but do you really think March1781 can do that well first time out of the gate?
 

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