I built one back when the buckskinning Mountain Man thing was going real strong, some what before the new fangled inline not really a traditional rifle craze started.
I built one of the CVA Mountain Rilfe kits before they went cheep with them. The hardest part for me was fitting the curved butt plate everything else had been prefitted pretty well then it was just a matter of sanding the stock some very minor inleting around the barrel and finishing the wood and metal. I shot that gun for over a decade even shot a couple pretty nice bucks with it fifty caliber round ball will take down a deer pretty fast to.
I am thinking about getting another rifle Kit from somplace like Tracks of the Wolf they are hevily researched Pennsylvania rifles and other muzzel loaders when you buy the "kit" they give you a lot of options not just caliber but wood type, barrel length, furniture, ect.The problem for me is i got BRF and keep building them but when my second is finished I am going to start on the Pennsylvania i think. Price wise they are right up with building yourself an AR but I think they may be a bit more politically correct since you could hang it over the fireplace if you had one and no body would bat an eye.
