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Appropriately named. Won't fit in any of my usual places for such an item. How does one protect, transport, ship, store...etc. It doesn't come apart like a Hawken-type of blackpowder weapon (no wonder they were so-popular to mass-produce back in the 80s). Beautiful, long, light and wonderfully balanced. Should be good medicine for whitetails this Christmas in Pennsylvania (& exactly why I had it built)! But...seemingly delicate and easily abused. Insights, anyone? The 42-inch barrel and the 14 1/2 LOP makes for an exceedingly long weapon.

Most are carried in a soft leather case. Mine was made out of deer skin. Full length case that had a flap which went over the butt and was tied down. You are right there is no hard case option and if there was it would be about as handy as a 2 X10 to carry. Best place to store at home is over a fireplace if your security is good.

I have a case made from a Hudson Bay blanket for mine. I believe they do make a case for it.

Found it, I remember some long hard cases from MLA Convention shoots.

http://www.skbcases.com/sports/sku.php?cat=9&pid=205

If your handy with wood working tools it wouldn't be too hard to make one, piano hinges come in long length, brass corner covers, luggage handles and clasp are easy to find also.

By the way beautiful rifle, a REAL Muzzle loader, not something dumbed down for those to lazy to learn to hunt with a patched ball and a flint lock like a primitive season was meant to be.

Double ++ Oskar! It pains me to no end to see the muzzle-loader only hunts that so many dedicated ML'ers worked so hard for that 95% of the guns you see used aren't even recognizable as a ML'er.

Lloyd3 is that a left handed rifle? I do agree it is very nice. Years ago I was a member of a long rifle association which promoted custom crafting of rifles just like yours. Percussion rifles were more popular but I always found flint to be more aesthetically pleasing.

2-Piper, nothing bugs me as much as an inline muzzle loader, shooting a sabot slug, using a solid pellet of propellant, a 209 primer for ignition, with a scope on the top of the gun. Nothing say primitive weapon like that. Well maybe a camouflaged version. Vomit.

I'm so old school I cringe when I see everyone going to scoped cross bows instead of at least compound bows, if not traditional bows. I shot my first deer using a bow, with a Bear (traditional) bow with 50 pound draw weight and no sight system. A cross bow is not a primitive weapon. It was state of the are long after long bows fell out of favor.

You use to be able to buy zip-up padded soft cases in lengths that would accommodate a 42" barreled long rifle...............I've got several of them in my shop. I always transported my rifles to and from shoots in them. KOLPIN used to make some, among others. They were a tight fit, and you could barely get the zipper to shut, but they would.

My m/loading rifles have never fired a load of b/p substitute............always real black. They have never fired a bullet, always patched roundball. Slow twists for me. The last rifle I built, for crossed-sticks competition, has shot as small as 5/8" 5 shot 100 yard groups with a patched ball.

I want to build one more, in the English half-stock style of A. Henry or J. Rigby. I have one of the finest handmade percussion locks ever made to put on it, built for me by Bob Roller.

That's really a pretty "Po-boy", Lloyd. Soon be time to make meat with it.

SRH

there were aluminum cases for them - I sold mine a while ago since i no longer travel much with a longrifle and a blanket case works for local trips

there also was a plastic hard case made for a while- cabelas sold one 10 15 years ago

if i wanted another hard case - i would post a want to buy ad on the American longrifle board and see if anyone no longer needs theirs - that is where i sold mine as soon as i posted it

Stan: Thank you! I hope to get it figured out and ready by December, God willing! We have a family trip planned back to the in-laws in Pennsy and barring the unforeseen, I'd like to have it in hand then.

The gun came from Tennessee Valley in box with a wooden frame. The gun itself was carefully wrapped in bubble-wrap and then bedding in a mess of shredded paper. The charge for the box and shipping wasn't insignificant. I suppose that I can re-use said system to get it back to my in-laws. The cases that would fit this unit are something like $600 new, and shipping for such a heavy case is also a significant cost, either by airline or by mail.



Compare the overall length to my 16 double (28-tubes, 14 3/4 LOP). Portability isn't the strong suit here.

I use an embarrassingly cheap and thin canvas slip to get my rifle from the house to wherever. I figure it will be subjected to more hazard and abuse at the range or in the field than it will be in the car, and probably none of it will be as bad as the knocks some of the originals were subjected to.

I was at the primitive range at the Friendship national matches last month and it occurred to me that the rifles being used there are handled and fired a lot - a whole lot (guys talking about using a case of powder a year). Most of the rifles have accumulated a well used patina and they look pretty darned good for it.