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Originally Posted by Jack Cronkhite View Post
I suppose the platinum blow out plug is to help first timer errors??
last timers error is more like it,

Make sure it has British proofs, says London and looks to nice to be otherwise but Manton was one of the names the Belgiums used to sell guns.

Prices very a lot, is it cased? with accessories? Most good maker percussion SxSs I have seen were good mid grade guns and sold for under a grand to just over. I have seen asking prices into the 5 figures for perfect high grade examples.

sometimes there are bargins



Muzzleloaders are not that hard to learn, basically, its reloading in a barrel rather than a shell casing

as the old horn I once saw advised

"of all the rules you must recall
powder first, then the ball"
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