The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Didn't want to impose on the post for the 1847 Walker, so I thought I share these, bunkysdad I guess I don't need it after seeing the rust on the pistol. It is sitting on desk top just gathering dust.

Nice finish on yours.

A CVA Jukar. I have one just like it, it was a CVA kit gun I built in the early 70's or so.

Lots of fun to fire, especially at night!

Dolk

I like the closed eyes and the flinch.

polymerase2 wrote:I like the closed eyes and the flinch.

That and the CLICK wait wait Fzzzzz Boom . Had a picture that my daughter in law took of me shooting my 50cal Flintlock rife. Her timing was dead on, caught the pan flash and the ball of fire comeing out the muzzle. Will see if she still has it around somewhere .

Properly prime the pan, sharpe flint and a well tuned lock and you will not be able to hear any fizzzzzzzzz....boom, just Boom. Nice Jukar, what's with the rust? Oil that weapon, then take it out and shoot it. You need help with it just PM me and I can walk you through the loading and firing, as well as cleaning. Remember not to use anything but regular FFFg black powder, part of that fizz boom crap is counter guys at gun shops telling people they can use pyrodex in a flinter. Not in the pan you can't, you can use it for the main charge if you put in a five grain BP starter first. Black powder flashes fast when sparked, and only a small amount is needed in the pan. Second rookie error is too load the pan, all you need is enough to cover the bottom of the pan to reach the bottom of the touch hole in the barrel. Been shooting flinters for some time, love them, and that Jukar will make you a good shooter, even got a rifled bore, nice.

I guess I did over do the FIZZ a bit, I use only Real Black powder in all my flint locks. W hen I first started shooting Black Powder it seemed like it took a long time to actually ignite the powder charge. Rust, that comes from sitting on desk top and not taking it out and I am totally ashamed to have anything of mine in that condition. I started with black powder back around 1973-74 sometime like that, the little flinter actually shoots much better than what a lot of people think it will. I have not shot a lot in the last year or so other than my trusty Ruger 10/22 and My Ex Henry 22cal rifle, my wife shot it, liked it and informed me that it was her's and if I wanted one I had better go to the gun shop and get one for myself (thought that's what I did ??)

Jukar was turning out some pretty good stuff back then. Many folks bought these to use as wallhangers, over time styles changed and the pistols ended up in the attic, then out at the tag sale for $40. I look for them all the time

Junk Yard Dog wrote:Jukar was turning out some pretty good stuff back then. Many folks bought these to use as wallhangers, over time styles changed and the pistols ended up in the attic, then out at the tag sale for $40. I look for them all the time

Every so often I still find one at Flea Markets, and a few of the vendors know that I like the muzzle stuffers so they keep their eye open for me, and yes Jukar, CVA did make some decent products, I bought a 45cal percussion pistol kit for my son around 1982 he built the kit and it turned out very nice. He enjoyed shooting that one a lot, once when we were loading up to go home he wanted Just One More shot.. He loaded up, capped and shot, in his haste he loaded proper powder load but for some reason left the patch off the ball. When it fired the ball darn near just rolled to end of barrel and dropped to the ground. We had that ball mounted for his room as the shortest shot he ever made. If it was not for all the rods, screws and all the other metal parts that help hold me together I would be out back shooting every day, my shooting range is anywhere from 10 ft out the back door or go the long distance of 400 ft if it is going to be a noise maker.

The funny part was that CVA never marketed their guns as decorators, yet many were used that way, but the Japanese did. They made their "Tower" pistols as both decorator and shooter models, both pistols shared parts and looked the same from a distance. Only up close you could see how cheap the decorators were made. I have two Japanese made tower pistols, one is very nicely done, well finished lock, properly aligned touch hole, beautifully blued hexagonal barrel with sights, and a frizzen that sparks. The other has a round barrel in the white, but otherwise looks the same, has a touch hole drilled almost below the level of the pan, and the frizzen might as well be made of aluminum, imported by Hawes in the 70's, unknown if ever intended as a shooter and just made badly, but useful only as a decorator. These days you see these pistols pop up on GB with very little information to go with them and people bid them up to hundreds of dollars not knowing they have a 0 chance of getting a shooter. I always tell people who want a first flint shooter to get the Pedersoli Kentucky, I have seen them on sale for under $300 sometimes, and always a good shooter, totoday'sersion of the old Jukar Kentucky type pistols.

I got one of the Tower pistols at a flea market one day, paid $20.00 for it. This one was the decoration model, had a piece of pipe instead of barrel. I called Deer Creek and with in four or five days had all the parts I needed to turn it into nice shooter. Typical of most things my grandson wound up with it, I just can't say no to this boy.

I am surprised there was anything on the gun worth using, on mine the lock is crap even past the soft frizzen, the stock has cracks, and the barrel looks like something off a Zip gun. The other one, while it looks almost the same from five feet away, is very well made. Let me see if I can find a pic of the two of them.
Here is the good one, just after I bought it, the box of ammo was bought with it ,


Here we are, they are the two on the bottom

JYD you have a lot of really nice stuff.