.32 cal barrel

[mongrel]

Tip's Frontier Shop is next door to Howard's trailer and display table on the corner. Tip sells merchandise (good stuff, too) but Howard actually makes the barrels you buy from him.

[BruceB]

Yep Mike it's Howard! I don't have his price list here right now but I'm sure you could get a straight octagon, 3/4", and 32 caliber from him reasonably and to the length you wanted.

[graybear]

I ran into a dealer today @ an outdoor expo who had a GM .32 flintlock bbl for the tc/lyman w/fiber optic sights. I asked him about it & he said he had 6 of them, brand new, $250.00 a pc. I got his card w/web address, web sight & telephone #. I don't have a gun they would fit but I thought some of you might be interested.

[snuffy]

Thanks everyone.
I agree with you mongrel about GM! They made their name with front stuffers now they bailed for a market with greener grass!
Gray Bear, I'd be interested in the contact info for those barrels even though 250.00 seems high? I'm guessing they're drop ins with thimbles and sights? Be ewll all

[mongrel]

Snuffy, if you're looking for a barrel for use with a T/C or Italian-made Hawken-style, watch the barrel diameter. The .32 calibers offered by Numrich were 7/8" diameter. The barrel channels on the Hawken-type guns are 15/16".

Of course if you're also considering building a gun from scratch, then the barrel diameter isn't an issue and ideally you want to get the lightest barrel you can find.

BTW I do still have a number of stock blanks for sale. They're good-grade curly maple and priced at $75 plus $20 shipping. It's not a huge savings over what you'll pay from a variety of vendors' websites, but it's a few dollars less anyway.

If you can stand to wait till June I'm always finding deals on good wood at the Friendship Shoots. I use most of what I buy but if someone comes along who seems to need a certain chunk of wood more than I do I'm easy to get along with -- I'll sell it for what I paid plus a fair amount to ship the blank. I don't find much good curly maple at a substantial savings over what I've already got to offer, but plain maple, walnut, cherry, and some ash are usually available at half the price or less than you'll pay, retail.

[BruceB]

Sooooo Mike you still got some of that wood out of that lot I bought the blank from???

[mongrel]

Aye, that I do....

[snuffy]

Thanks for the input Mongrel,
I can definately wait till june for a "cheap" piece of wood. I am trying 2 projects at once ( more like 15!!!! ADD) one is a .45 flinter (ultra hi) that I want to put as little cash into as possible. That one is 7/8 across the flats. The other is a .32 or .36 caplock from whatever I can gather up. It's a future project in that I plan to amass the parts as "good dealls" show up! I'd drop the cash of a plain jane stock for the flinter if it was inletted (barrel) and cheap! My plans are for a half stock on that one. Keep me in mind if you should see something at friendship ( really envious you get to go that!!) never been to a rondy but would love it!!!! Looking for one kinda close for this season.
Be well, Snuff

[mongrel]

I can sell you a barrel-inletted halfstock blank right now, cheap, if you want it, but you have to know the barrel diameter you intend to use. If you won't be getting a barrel till you find a good deal then you'll need to wait on the wood, till after that, since you have no way of knowing exactly what you'll end up getting.

I'm fortunate in that I live only a short ways from Friendship and am one of the vendors there -- I only come home to sleep, during the Spring and Fall Shoots, and I have access to the other dealers and their stuff that not everyone normally does.