Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Muzzleloaders Steve Zihn Flintlock set for sale

Hello to all. I made these 2 guns for a man some years ago, and he is loosing his sight. I feel very bad for him, but reality is something we can't avoid. So he has asked me to help him sell the 2 guns as a set. He may agree to break them up and sell each one separately, but at first he wants to try to sell them together.
Both have hand made stocks. The pistol has one of my hand made barrels. I also made the patch box and side plate on the rifle by hand and the butt cap on the pistol too.
The rifle has a 50 cal swamped Colorain barrel and a Chamber lock. The pistol has an L&R lock.
Lancaster 50 cal Pistol 008 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]
Lancaster 50 cal Pistol 005 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]
Lancaster 50 cal Pistol 004 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]
Lancaster 50 cal Pistol 003 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]Lancaster 50 cal Pistol 006 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]

11290001 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]
11290005 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]
12030002 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]

P. B. Wrist-side by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]
P.B. Trigger G. by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]
[img]https://live.staticflickr.com/4283/35622516166_f933af15f1_b.jpg[/img]PB Zihn-York 4 by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]

PB Zihn-York 4 by Steve Zihn, on [bleep]
PB Zihn-York lock by Steve Zihn, on [bleep]
The owner wishes all correspondence to go through me and all money transactions too. I can be contacted at szihnwyoming.com The price for the set is $5,100 and I pay the shipping to the 48 states. Any shipments outside the USA or to Alaska or Hawaii will be split with me paying up to $100 in the cost of the shipment and the buyer paying anything over $100.
Payments must be either US Postal Money Orders or cash.

WOW!

Awesome firelocks, Steve! Very sorry for the owner’s predicament.

Thanks Kaywoodie.

Please spread the word. Maybe we can help the guy.

wow!

Nice work on those. Will make someone very happy.

Do you expect somebody to shoot those?

They are far too beautiful!

Tyrone,

If they belonged to me, I’d shoot the heck out of em!!! 😁😁😁

My bucket hunt would be a euro hunt for rottwild or damwild with something of the quality and beauty of one of Steve’s Jäger rifles!! To dream!!!!

Have a great weekend!

Kw

Wow, just Wow!

Would love to hear details of the stock. What kind of wood is it and what finish was applied? Colorants/stains/dyes?

Tyrone, the owner has killed several deer with the rifle, so yes they are for shooting and hunting. It shoots VERY well too. I made him a Jaeger rifle before he got the Longrifle in the picture and he killed elk with that one. They are very fancy and artful, but they are still RIFLES and I make them to hunt with and to shoot.
So no need to leave such thing sin a safe. Hunt with them. I take pains to make them reliable and accurate. I want my customers to fill freezers with them, of the accuracy and reliability would not be needed.

Gringo Loco.......the stocks are both Sugar Maple and 100% hand made. I have mixed my own dies in the past and I did that by mixing different die powders from time to time, but I made those guns long enough ago that I can't remember what the mix was for the stains. ALL my stains were alcohol based however, but for a few that I used Acid stains on at the request of the customers. Water and alcohol bases stains work best in my experience when compared to oil based stains.

The finish is low gloss Tung oil which is easy to maintain. The rifle in the picture has been hunted with many time in Idaho, in rain and snow and as you can see, the finish is holding up quite well. I like tung because it's easy to match if a customer wants to touch it up 10-20 years later.

Dang, it would be a pleasure to own those.

The temptation to make smoke with them would be tremendous!

LOL! Those are just out of my league I guess!

You made the World a better place with those!

Real art there

Ok, the owner just told me to go ahead and sell them individually if I get any interest. He also has a very nice period correct powder horn to sell too.

Steve,

How about pictures of the powder horn and prices for all three items.

DF

Ok Dirtfarmer. that's a good idea.

The owner says he will take $3500 for the rifle if the buyer pays shipping costs.
$1500 for the pistol if the buyer pays shipping costs.
The Horn is $135 and again, the buyer pays shipping costs.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA by .com/photos/156296479N08/]Steve Zihn, on [bleep]

Nice.

Steve, did you do the horn, too?

DF

Yes many years ago.

Damn nice horn! And priced right. Won’t last long.

For sure. I would have expected it to be priced higher.

Won't last long.

DF

I went ahead and un-boxed it and measured. The LOP is 13-7/8"

is the horn still there?

The horn is sold pending funds.

P!ease I beg someone,anyone save me from myself. Buy that rifle. I can see me hunting elk behind the house with it.

Deerstalker,

You know you want it! You owe it to yourself! Go for it!

Listen to Kaywoodie

Beats the whey outa having $$$$ in a CD!!

thanks Steve!

My Pleasure Paul.
The horn leaves here tomorrow .

the horn is hear and looks fine.

Congrats on the acquisition, Domit! Nice horn!

thanks!! it is nice, it got me to thinking how did the old-timers actually fill there horns? a bit at a time down the little hole I guess. hanging on my bison euro head right now. thanks again Steve.

domit,

I always use one of these for horn fill. But mine has a .223 case on top. And I have many old school GOEX powder Cans.

https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/89/1/POWDER-CAP-B

thanks for the tip. this grasshopper is slow to learn-ketchup. any tips and advice always welcome.

Not much action on the 2 guns, even after they are "broken up" as a set. Oh well, may not be the right time of year to sell.
We'll just have to wait and see.

Steve does the button on top of the but plate pop the patch box or is there another function?

Yes that's the patch box catch.

Beautiful guns!
It takes a while to find the right home for something like these. Fewer folks going into the traditional shooting sport and fewer still who are serious enough to own higher grade guns such as these.
I have a high grade Lancaster flintlock,a very nice custom Hawken, and a Chief's grade trade gun. The value of any one of them is more than any two of my modern guns combined. I get more enjoyment and pleasure from the muzzleloaders by far.

Hopefully, it won't take too long for the right person to see these, they deserve to be used and appreciated.

silly question but can brass be powder coated or aged to make it darker?

Next time you’re out shooting. Rub some black powder residue on it.

That works but you can also use the Birchwood Casey "Brass Black and rub it back with 0000 steel wool

ok thanks

Steve any interest on the other 1/2 way finished rifle ? what does it weigh ? app.

Hi Domit.

Yeah I have had 3 men call, but so far no commitments.
Because it's not fully built I can't say the weight yet, but I would guess it's going to be about 8 to 8.5 pounds

Just for information, a man did commit to buy the pistol and rifle, but so far no money has come, so I can't yet say they are off the market. Waiting to hear back.

Both sold now.