squirrel gun recommendation

[tuscarora]

I've got a hankering to build a flintlock squirrel rifle. I have reasonable skill level, I am a carpenter, bricklayer, home builder by trade, and I have built a few production kit guns, which seemed to take little skill.

 I have also built numerous longbows and recurve bows. Which is my passion.  I would like to build a fine flintlock though.

  Not looking to do a full inlet, would prefer if most of that were done reasonably close prior. Any recommendation?

[rollingb]

How about something like Track of the Wolf's "Jacob Dickert" kit?
I've built 3 of'em and they make a dandy little rifle.  
   Build Track's Jacob Dickert, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania longrifle parts set, with 13/16", or 7/8" straight octagon barrel - Track of the Wolf

[Mike Brooks]

I'd recommend one of Jim Kibler's kits.
Kit Gun - Kibler's Longrifles

[RobD]

i agree with mike - i think jim's kits are the cream of the crop, and even the barrel dovetailing is done for under lugs and sights.  great value right there.

[Eric Krewson]

My latest build was Tenn squirrel rifle from a precarve. Unfortunately the precarve was pretty sloppy, cut off center and it took a lot more work to make it right that I would have spent on on shaping a blank. No more precarves for me.

It all depends on how much hands on stuff you want to do. I have only made three flintlocks but prefer to build from a blank that has had the barrel channel and ramrod hole drilled for me. I like the hands on approach and want to feel like I build the majority of gun, not the stock duplicator.  I wanted to learn the process so the more I had to do the more I learned.

I am a bow builder as well.

[tuscarora]

I looked online at the Jim Kibler kits...nice looking stuff right there. I'm kind of partial to the plain  look, so I probably will not go the fancy route.

[Hanshi]

I like what I see in the Jim Kibler kits.  There are others, to be sure, including Pecatonica, TVM and maybe Tip Curtis.