Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Muzzleloaders Show off your Traditional Smokepoles.

Thought I would start a new thread where we could show off our traditional Smokepoles.

Mine from Top to Bottom:
50 cal Austin&Halleck Mountain Rifle
50 cal Thompson Renegade
50 Cal Thompson Treehawk
54 cal Thompson Hawken

A .50 caliber T/C Renegade flintlock and a .54 caliber T/C Renegade percussion that I put a GM .58 caliber barrel on. Love the .58.

OK . . . Here are three I have pictures of -

Custom .45 cal longrifle. Had it made so I could change the locks and switch from flint to percussion as I desired.



CVA Mountain Rifle, also .45 cal. Older "Made in USA" model.



Custom Leman .54 cal. This will be the grandson's when he is old enough to hoist and shoulder it - at this moment he's only 9 months old . . .


I have more, but these are the only ones I have pics of on PB . . . Also still working on a fullstock Leman in .58 cal.

Man Otter, that custom .45 is sweet!

50 cal. Lyman Great Plains rifle


50 cal. CVA pistol and 50 cal. CVA mountain rifle.



45 cal. Derringer.

CVA SXS 20 gage converted to flint



Hudson Valley fowler

Here's my J&S Hawken, an exact replica of a pre-1840 original that Don Stith has in his collection, built by John Bergmann this spring from Stith's parts. It has a .54 cal, 1-56" twist, 36" X 1 1/8" - 1" tapered Rice barrel, RE Davis lock, 14 1/4" inch length of pull on the maple stock, and weighs 10.8 pounds. The sights, of course, are non adjustable fixed buckhorn. Windage was dead on when I sighted it in. I had to file down the front sight some to get a 75 yard zero with 100 gr of FFg, a .530 ball, .018 pillow ticking patch lube with Trapper's Mink Oil. It balances extremely well, even with that long barrel, because of the taper to it.













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Lyman GPR 50

BMR,

That's a beautiful rifle!

It certainly is! An exceptional piece of wood you have there.

Truly Stunning... Captchee That Hudson Valley Fowler's an amazing rifle too. I'm very curious, How long is it?

thank you
barrel is 52 inches .
total length is 68 inches from but to muzzle2

My .45 caliber caplock by Jim Lofland of Boothwyn, PA., made in 1976, a maker I know very little about.













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ROMAC - The wood on that rifle is absolutely stunning. Never seen anything like that on a muzzleloader . . .

Cap - outstanding as usual . . .

BMR - cool Hawken, nice figure on the wood . . .

Traditional muzzleloaders always catch my eye and get a second (or more) look by me at any gun show or shop I visit. From the least expensive factory models to the high dollar customs by the many craftsmen who can do the great work, they are always like a magnet to me.

How do I load a photo?

Thanks for the compliments on the rifle, guys. I went through a couple of "Hawkens" - a Hastings Hawken made for Cabela's and a Pedersoli Rocky Mountain Hawken - thinking I was getting an accurate reproduction with each. Turned out that while they were very nice, they had several things that were not correct, so I ended up selling both (and luckily not losing any money). When I heard about Don Stith and his parts sets for various Hawkens, I just had to go with one of his. I still have a couple of T/C Hawkens, though, a .54 and one with a .58 Green Mountain barrel, and an early, USA made CVA Mountain Rifle in .50, all excellent rifles.

Hatfield 50:


Pedersoli 45:


New Englander 12ga:


.58Renegade:



same renegade, but with a 56smooth bore barrel mounted:



Cherokee .32, same gun about 8 years ago or so, then a couple months ago:

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bottom one is the .58renegade already posted, the top one is my other .58 with a 1-70 twist green mountain barrel.
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.40 Cal recreation of an A.Verner rifle put together by a friend. Sure wish I could get a deer to wander in front of it.

All Sweet Rifles.
My next rifle is going to be a .32 cal. I sure wish T/C still made those Cherokee and Senecas.