# of builds

[Ken G]

8 to 10 with a full time job is pretty impressive in my book.  Especially given the quality of your guns.  My hats off to you.

Ken

[Dave K]

OK, I will stand up be counted and embarrass myself with my many builds. Someday, I will muster the courage to scrap a good piece of wood.

[C Wallingford]

I will build 3-4 per year. Most of mine are of the poor boy style. Not as labor intensive.

[Ed Wenger]

I've only been at this for a little over two years.  I've been shooting muzzleloaders much longer, but I'm really hooked on building.  Last year I finished ten and have four done this year to date.  I'm about 3/4 of the way through my latest.  Like everyone else, family, work and life set the pace...

[Buffler Razz]

Working on my first right now, started it in January and would like to be done to shoot her this fall.

[James Rogers]

Putting together my first one by myself now.

Using a Mike Brooks fowler kit stock of English walnut.
It's the only pre-carve that has a high enough comb to be able to shoot with, comes without the lock area inlet, and the forestock is square up to the nose.

If I get it finished this year then I can say I build one a year. 

[M Tornichio]

I have been averaging 2 rifles a year for the past few years. I hope to accomplish more, but I seem to be constantly working on work and my house. Life in general seems to get in the way.
Marc

[Ky-Flinter]

I've only built 2...  first one almost 20 years ago and finished #2 early this year.  I have #3 started.

-Ron

[flehto]

Built more LRs when I had a fulltime job...seems when I retired ,the motivation also  "retired". Presently do 2-3 LRs /yr. and could build more but  seeing I struggle w/ the art work, have a constant struggle between getting more done vs my inate "fussiness"  and at 76 have developed macular degeneration in the right eye which is, by far, less of a deterrent than the other 2 previous "excuses". Am thinking of building "plainer" LRs which can be just as attractive as the more embellished ones and  which would enable me to "produce more", but then the thought comes to mind...at 76, numbers don't really count for too much......Fred

[ironwolf]

I had 8 mos. in my last rifle, No. 2. However, that was a little over two years ago. I have the barrels and parts for 3&4 but haven't really gotten started
Kevin

[Ephraim]

Right now I am building 3 tenn's one york co. and an English sporting gun.
Will I get them done this year maybe I got to be in the right frame of mind to work on any of them. I have always built that way but I build just for me so time is not important. 
Ephraim

[BillPac]

I am trying to finish my first real build, been a looooong time in the process!
BillP

[don getz]

While I was in the barrel business I had very little time to build guns, even tho I liked doing it.  I didn't really keep track
of how many I did in my spare time, but, after I retired 10 years ago, I made a list of all those guns I had built, as well
as I could remember.  Since retirement 10 years ago, I have built about 50 guns, and finished No. 74 back in May.  The
crazy thing is, I still enjoy it.  I'm going over to the shop tomorrow and help a friend who has put one of our old Isaac
Haines kits together......going to help him with some final shaping, and when he has the final sanding done, we're
going to give it the Nitric acid stain treatment.....sure do like the colors you get with it.......Don

[famouseagle]

Sometimes your old guns turn up in surprising places - like the KRA show.

[don getz]

Eric...yea, I forgot about one of my early guns that showed up at the KRA.  An early Jager, built about 1979, shortly
after getting into the barrel business.  I think it was number 5.  An old gent had it laying on his table, I looked at this
thing and it looked strangely familiar.  I picked it up and sure enough, there it was and still in good shape.  Just like seeing an old friend.........Don

[Nate McKenzie]

5-6 a year since I retired 5 years ago. Before that about one a year for 25 years.

[northmn]

Don't really know how many I built.  I took a 15-20 year break between my last and what I am doing now.  I would like to keep it at one a year and do better work at this time.  Used to get ideas that I could make one that don't miss before the summer shooting season and hurried more than I should, also built some for others which I will not do again as it darned near spoiled the hobby.  Currently working on two smoothbores as I sold my last one.  I have made about 5 smoothbores now in addition to several rifles.  One big thing that slows things down for me is the cost of parts in addition to time and interest.  Another is that I like to make a lot of the components.  Now time to pursue improvement on engraving and do some checkering.

DP

[Roger Fisher]

I have built either 19 or 20 since 89. Nearly all from a blank with channel and hole.
Fowlers, So Mt., full stock Hawken, Jaeger, 2 Schuetzens (His and Her) and last but not least Chunk Gun.

I must admit I'm no carver and no engraver.  I like to build (winter time hobby) but must admit also I still like to shootem more than build 'em!

This rainy holiday got to be a drag, no shoots and the neighbor lady isn't around
So I started to inlet the bolster and tang on a smoothy today.  Should keep me outta trouble!

[Michigan Flinter]

 I am trying to build a rifle for each of my grandsons and I like to use a blank and mostly handtools .Modern tools and me don't get along real well in building them.To easy to screw something up in my case.Two grandsons have Lancaster school ,another a southern mountain simlar to a Bean and one with parts I had laying around that I call from the Reform School .My nine year old grandson asked me what I was doing this last winter when he was down in my shop and I told him making a rifle for one of my grandsons his reply well grandpa when you make mine remember that I'm right handed but left eye dominate!  Eric D. Lau Riverdale Mi