What We do
Custom Muzzle Loading Arms
Flintlock and percussion rifles and pistols, knives and accoutrements custom built to your specifications. Our mission is to provide our customers with well made, safe and properly functional muzzle loading firearms of original design, inspired by traditional style, using the finest materials, with attention to detail and quality.
We make it your way
We will custom build your firearm to fit your measurements, style, and shooting needs. Each gun is unique; no two are alike.
Our work is guaranteed
Your satisfaction is paramount. If it breaks, we will fix it, for free.
Why we do it
A love of old ways
Since I was a child , I've had a fascination with the way most anything was done in days gone by, and always looking to find out how "they" did it back then... Add a deep love of Nature and an equally deep need to do it "My Way," pretty much set my life's course.
History teaches us on many levels; "Those who fail to study history are destined to repeat it." Then there are those of us who choose to reenact or play at repeating it; "Living historians."
Some of us are lucky enough to do what we love for a living, meagre though it may be! "If you love what you do, you're always playing."
My History
There was a time before, when I had difficulty reconciling a love of the sea and a love of the mountains, and then I came to the Northwest. Most of my adult life, I've been a boatbuilder and sea captain. Can't do that anymore, and now I build guns, knives, and accoutrement for those who keep their feet on solid ground! If I love it, I have to build it; that applies to boats, guns, books and music.
Member of the Cockade Rifles of the N-SSA, NMLRA, and NRA, I rendezvous in buckskins and shoot Civil War guns dressed like a Rebel! That's me on the left, with the straw hat and the Guinness.
Every gun I build should be my best.
I learn from every thing I do. I believe that's what we're here to do. Learn. If you quit learning, you quit living, so don't ever stop.
I put that philosophy to work on the guns that I build, each one an improvement over the last. Apologies to my Son-he owns pistol #1! Just kidding, it works and looks great; he's never had a problem with it, and can pretty much kick my butt with it on the target range. That's it to the left...
That is my promise to you: I will put all that I have learned into the building of your gun, and it will be the best I've ever built.