Hello everyone.
I am a long time lurker here and think it's time to introduce myself. Have always been fascinated with muzzleloading from the time I was a child.(Davey Crocket and Hawkeye TV programs reinforcing the numerous library books I could find) I built my first rifle, a Hawken, with the help of Bud Brown's book "The Way We Did It" and a Kit Carson blueprint in 1978. Since then, nothing else, until I retired in 2010 from teaching Biology for 38 years. Have completed 4 rifles since then. You, as a group, have helped me immensely with the information contained in this forum. I could usually find an answer to my questions without asking.
