Anyone ever put one of these together? They are pretty cheap, $500 for a basic one and 1k for a nice one. No background checks or registration or anything either. While obviously not a home defense weapon it would be totally viable to hunt with, or just take out to the range. Would be cheap to fire as well.

No I'm not that poor

Might be fun to mess around with, but I think I'd just prefer a shotgun instead. You can get a break barrel super cheap that you can use to hunt just about everything. Now of course, there is still a background check for those though if that's the concern

It’s not about the cost - it’s about firing a .50 cal 900 grain lead ball out of a hand cannon using black powder.

I have modern guns. I also hunt with primitive bows and arrows.

I've owned and hunted with several black powder rifles but never built one from a kit. Some of the kits I've looked at required substantial stock work.

Thanks for the reply. I was worried about that. Making everything fit straight and true is likely not as easy as it might seem, especially if there are existing flaws the way the blank is shipped.

Yeah I would probably just buy one tbh - the tech has gone up to make them less miserable in recent years.

Some ppl like hunting muzzleloader because if you hunt public land you can still wear camo. But tbh it is my least favorite - I would do bow or rifle any day over muzzleloader. In terms of sighting in, I feel like they take a lot more time and practice than a rifle - not just because you have to reload after every shot but they are also more temperamental. You then have to clean them very thoroughly after use because the blackpowder will corrode it, and the gun smells like chit, the cleaning solution smells like chit, and the end result is that you smell like chit.