building a muzzleloader from a kit?

[Catfish]

A muzzle loader will only shoot as well as what you build it from. If you have no idea of how you will do, you might want to buy the cheapest kit you can find and see if you like putting them togather. If you know you like wood working and tinkering get a kit with top shelf parts. I never put a kit together, but did build a flint lock from parts I picked up around here and at Friendship. It was done with good quality parts and was a real shooter. I later changed it so I could use eather a flink or precusion lock. From what I have seen of kits there is very little fitting and mostly just putting a finish on them.