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I have built one Kentucky pistol, and two Kentucky rifles (one flintlock, one percussion). I hunted and took deer with each of the rifles and enjoy black powder shooting.

The pistol, being primarily for display, I blued the barrel several times to get that deep rich blue, and there were 15 coats of hand rubbed Tung Oil finish on the stock. It was beautiful even if I do say so myself.

The pistol was stolen from my home in a burglary in 1984 and was never recovered (at least the police said they never got it back - this was New York State and I assume thy got it back and decided that I shouldn't have it.)

It was a neighbor across the street's son, we never officially caught him but we knew. He wound up in prison anyway, and back in again, and again. When he was in our house he did some stupid stuff and that was a big clue - he stole a mug full of change, but left cash money sitting in a desk drawer, borke into the gun cabinet and played with all of the military guns, but never touched the really valuable ones, and went out the back door as we came in the front.

Yes, BP is messy to clean up, and you can't shoot more than a few rounds before you need to clean the bore to allow you to load, but it's still a blast.

If he wants to throw it away, he could throw it my way.