well as others here have said you have lots of choices .
Jim chambers has some wonderful pieces on his web site .
however keep in mind that these are not what I would call kit guns .
Jims pieces are top of the line and while they are sold in a form that resemble a kit “IE pieces “ these are builders kits and are not simply screw together like production kits such as Lyman , CVA , Thompson and such .
this also goes for the rifles found at Track of the wolf or pecatonica River
here are a couple more links for you
Pecatoncia River
http://www.longrifles-pr.com/Track of the Wolf
http://www.trackofthewolf.com/(S(hazp4b45t30204555qzlhzre))/index.aspxSitting fox
http://www.sittingfoxmuzzleloaders.com/intro.htmlfor any of these , if your going to get into building. get some book s that will show you how to do them properly .
I learned Long, long ago from recreating the American long rifle by Shumway .
thought today most folks seem to be recommending The Gunsmith Of Greenville County by Peter Alexander
the reason I say this is that you have choices from everything blanks to pre-carved stocks , partially inlet to fully inlet in the white pieces that normally only need the finish work done .
now the other venue you can go is to by a used rifle and simply restock it .
see most of the production kits out there suffer greatly in that they come where the parts just drop into place . this leads folks to think ;haaaa pretty simply .
well IMO ALL these suffer from way to much wood and a better rifle will result if you do alittle study from the above books ..
the wood on the lower end kits like CVA and traditions use is also of poor quality and doesn’t lend well to carving and wire working .
some also come with plastic stocks .
I bet I do at least 10-15 restocks of these rifles a year .
take the little CVA bobcats / realy these are a pretty fair rifle for the money . but if you do some work , buy a blank and read the books listed above , you can make your own kit that will result in them looking like this .
these are all CVA conversions , i hope this will show you what can be done with these rifles
CVA bobcats
Tradditions Deer hunter
CVA Kentucky
CVA SXS converted to flint and re stocked
for more info on this you can find and article i wrote as well as a very good article by Steve Zehn on building from a blank to finished rifle in the TMA journals or by following this link
http://www.traditionalmuzzleloadingassociation.com/forum/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=76 now most certainly another option is the production rifle kits / Lyman and TC IMO make the best . their parts are quality and most time while their wood is still alittle lacking , it is of fairly good walnut .
now price wise , don’t let production kits fool ya . if you look around you may just find that a good custom builders kit from say sitting fox or north star west will come in just a 100 or so above the cost of what TC and Lyman are wanting .
recently I priced a traditions kit for a fella . I about fell off my chair . so I steered him to Pecatonica river and sitting fox . both have much better choices concerning woods as well as styles of rifles but they do take more work .
as far a jims rifles “Chambers “ well his name says it all really . if you can afford the cost , you wont find a better builders kit available
