Review of my Mongrel-made .36 squirrel mangler

[mongrel]

Yeesh. Honestly, I don't do anything but put 'em together, occasionally bleed on one (okay, on pretty much all of 'em before it's all said and done). Maybe the difference is that the thought always uppermost in my mind is, "It has to shoot." That comes before making it pretty, making it PC, obliging someone's notions of how it SHOULD be done. The gun has to shoot. It's first, foremost, and always a gun, and it has to shoot.

Maybe the "mojo" is that focus and doing my best to involve the customer in every step from choosing components to watching the gun be built to finally knowing it's on the way. I don't know. But I do know my guns have to shoot.

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  MONGREL MOJO!!!   

[hotfxr]

Hey Mongrel, when I come looking to have you build me the ultimate plains rifle, you won't hold the "mojo" moniker against me, will you? 

[mongrel]

As long as "ultimate plains rifle" doesn't involve use of the word "Hawken" all will be well....

[gunmaker]

If you think that's the most fun a girl could have---wait till you knock a big bushy tail off a limb the 1st time.  Way to go Widget. ....Tom

[hotfxr]

As long as "ultimate plains rifle" doesn't involve use of the word "Hawken" all will be well....

Thanks to my new family on this forum my misconceptions have been dashed to the rocks and I have been climbing the ladder of muzzleloader knowledge one rung at a time all the while realizing that the more I learn, the less I know. The only time the word "Hawken" comes up anymore is when naming rifle builders of the early 19th century or talking about a garden store that used to be around here. Of course I had to bite my tongue hard at the Rondy yesterday when amongst the shooters that name was bandied about most freely.