The UK muzzle loading market

[Feltwad]

To date the UK market for muzzle loading guns and firearms is absolutely flooded it is defiantly a buyers market One of the big auction houses for this type muzzle loaders this weekend on the 1st July has the following for auction
Percussion original longarm with 63lots from £ 120 +
Original Flintlock long arms 26 lots from £!00 +
In the repros Muzzle loading Shotguns with 29 lots from £60
.Repro Muzzle loading pistols 65 lots of single barrel and revolvers from £90
Repro muzzle loading Rifles 21 lots starting from £100
Feltwad

 

[TFoley]

Only thing to remember is that here in UK ANY replica is classed as a current firearm - Section 1 for rifled arms and Section 2 for shot guns - muzzleloading or not.

 

[Rudyard]

Only thing to remember is that here in UK ANY replica is classed as a current firearm - Section 1 for rifled arms and Section 2 for shot guns - muzzleloading or not.

Thats one reason Ime half a world away. Plus in the UK you don't get climate just weather .
Regard Rudyard

 

[Bushfire]

If only you could hunt big game with them there!

 

[Rancocas]

Can you get real black powder in the UK?

 

[cositrike]

Can you get real black powder in the UK?

Yep

 

[Rudyard]

If only you could hunt big game with them there!

The powers that be decided NO black powder gun or any sort of bow can kill Deer ect some foot pounds rubbish the Beer talkers probably dreamt up All they know is snobbery & 243 & 270 . Even the 600 nitro isn't allowed It was made to flatten Jumbo's But hasn't the Muzzle velocity so is debarred .Not that it was ever a UK option . And what did Robin hood use ? not a 243 Ime sure . The Snider & all such & Ml's again are banned . Here in NZ All Deer & Ferrol any thing ( unfortunately Not politician's ) are classed as introduced Vermin & are hunted with whatever goes off bang or sends a shaft fast enough . Most Pig hunters have dogs & go in with a knife, slasher or old bayonet so aside of the pick up with dog boxes in the back its positively Medieval. . Me I mostly use flintlocks but I have hunted with wheellocks & snap matchlocks the game doesn't seem to notice they are unfit for the purpose .
Permanently in Exile .Rudyard

 

[TFoley]

Can you get real black powder in the UK?

Not a problem where we live. Henry Krank's own brand, Swiss and the recently-introduced Polish brand from the oldest powder mill in Europe. I think you'll find that they had BP in Great Britain before the USA came in to existence....

 

[Erwan]

Can you get real black powder in the UK?

Yes, they can, they have gunpowder, and we, on the other side of the Channel, have less and less...

English BP was the best black powder..... after the French until the 19th century...