black powder shotgun?

[coyotejoe]

<snip>. Just look at this site, hundreds of posts about rifles, pistols and revolvers and just this one thread on shotguns.

Actually that's not true. Use the search feature, there are quite a few threads about scatterguns in this forum. Not as many as the pistol/rifle threads, but there a lot more than just this one.

Not as many? Not even in the same ball park!!!  When I searched the word "shotgun" the most recent posts were from 2007 and they just mentioned the word but really were not about ML shotguns. Remember that this is a site dedicated to traditional muzzleloaders and attracts those few sportsmen who are interested. That's a small niche already, then ML shotguns are a small part of that small niche.  Gun makers and importers will offer anything they can find a market for. If it's not available that's because there just isn't sufficient market. If they once did but no longer do, same reason. CVA no longer offers ANY traditional sidelock guns. I look at the guns in Walmart and find not one sidelock. They don't stock them because they can't sell them.

[Cuts Crooked]

Well Joe, you said "just this ONE thread".

Albiet, I found these...
 http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,3499.0.html
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,19004.0.html
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,3606.0.html
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,2465.0.html
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,38031.0.html
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,44545.0.html
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,4606.0.html
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,19826.0.html
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,14521.0.html
http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,2266.0.html  ...just on the first page of my search. That looks like a lot more than "just one". And those were topics about scatterguns or thier assessories, not just ones that mentioned them in passing during a thread about something else.
Be that as it may, there doesn't seem to be the level of interest in BP scattergunning as in other aspects of muzzleloading, but there does seem to be a dedicated core group of scattergunners. As others have noted there just aren't enuff of us ta make it profitable for manufactures to cater to us.

[coyotejoe]

Yep, the first one was from Jan.'03 and got no replied. The next was from Oct. '03 and got two replies. Next was back again to Jan. '03 and got one reply. Then Dec. '02,  July '04 and that's as far as I looked because that pretty much says it all doesn't it?
  I guess I assumed it was understood that my comment
was in reference to the forum as it stood at the time. Obviously I know there have been a few over the past years being as I've been a party to most of them since I joined this illustrious group three years ago.
Point being, obviously the muzzleloading shotgun appeals to only a small portion of a small group of sportsmen.