That's true about Dixie - they have beau coup flint kits, including several Kentucky/Pennsylvania/Tennessee rifles a Jaeger, Hawkens, Brown Bess and "Trade" Guns (sort of a cut-down military musket). I can't believe the price difference there is now (or rather, lack of,) between kits and finished guns. Kits used to go for about half or less than a finished gun. Now you only save about 20 per cent by building it yourself. Buying the individual parts and putting together your own "kit" is more than buying the rifle totally finished. Expect to pay over $100.00 each for just the lock, stock and barrel. The last kit I bought was a CVA "Mountain Rifle" for $90.00 in 1982. These were offered with curly maple stock, and all steel/iron furniture, except the pewter nosecap and German silver capbox. It turned out to be a beautiful gun. Most all the kits I see nowadays for Hawken-type rifles have brass fittings. In a moment of weakness I traded it even-up for an Enfield Rifle (I was leaving buckskinning for CW re-enacting). That still keeps me up a night, sometimes.