trade gun questions

[sachel.45]

been thinking about getting a trade gun kit but was wondering if anybody had any experiance with the ones im looking at. im looking at a track of the wolf trade gun kit. the northstar west trade gun and sitting fox. i kinda like the track of the wolf kit because of all the options and it seems like a good price and an eaiser kit to complete which is nice but i dont know anything about them can anybody help?

[longcaribiner]

I have an older Northstar, made by Curley Gostomski himself, before he died.  It is great, no complaints at all.  It is my small game and sometimes my large game hunt gun.   I can't say that the new ones are as good,
i really haven't handled one.  I got it used at the Eastern in 1988.  Even then I shelled out $350 for it.  Worth every penny. 

[coyotejoe]

The Track kit is a very easy build, more like assembly than building, and parts are of very good quality and, as you mentioned, there are several options in barrels, even rifled barrels. The Sitting Fox kits have an attractive price and probably make up a decent gun but I've never actually handled one. All of the modern trade gun replicas make a heavy gun because barrel walls are much thicker than the originals which were ground to very thin barrel walls. Also the modern replicas use the same exterior barrel profile regardless of bore size so the smaller bores, 28 and 24 gage are even heavier than the 20 gage.

[sachel.45]

thanks for the reply have you built one?(if you have im probably going to have a lot of questions) it looks like the only thing that looks hard is drilling and tapping the flash hole everything else seems preety much done (i think im going to have there gunsmith do the soldering and such on this one) i think im going to go with the track of the wolf kit only hard part now is getting the money