Update as of 4/12/24

As of this moment, I have 89 guns to tear down & prep plus a bunch of nipples
to make and an assortment of little stuff like belt hooks to ship.

It's spring!
That means MUD SEASON
That means the road is posted to 6 tons.
That means large delivery trucks can't get here.
That means I am nervously watching the packing material supply
hoping that we don't run out before the roads are un-posted.

Two weeks ago all the snow melted.
Last week we got a snowstorm that lasted a few days and dumped over a foot of snow on us.
Mud season means you can't really PLOW that snow without tearing up the roadway.
There were a couple of long power outages, one was a few days long.
The good news is that it was in the 50's for the past few days and all of the snow melted again!
The bad news is that the melted snow means more mud.
You know the old cliche' about New England: if you don't like the weather, wait a minute...

We got in a couple of small shipments of stuff from various vendors.
One of the shipments included some Enfield muskets that
we had been waiting forever for and some long-overdue French 1733 pistols.
Now if they could just get their collective act together and ship some fowlers, then I'd be happy.

Stuff we are out of and is currently backordered:
- All socket bayonets. They aren't giving me any hints about when we'll see the resupply
-By the time you are reading this, I will be out of the padded gun cases.
I have had a large quantity on backorder from the US manufacturer since December and my stock of them is finally giving out.
I'll check with them when I get a chance to see what the ETA is
-Musket sized hammerstalls. Got a ton of pistol sized, but ran out of musket sized
-Slings
I hate running out of stuff as keeping track of backorders is a lot of extra work for me but
it is a weird world out there and random stuff is hard to get suddenly for no clear reason.

The guns that are here are the orders highlit in blue below.
Each one is just as much a priority as all of the others.

There are a few accessory orders in green down near the bottom of the list that I'll be packing up to ship ASAP.
Please don't nag me about small non-gun orders like belt hooks and spring vices.
We ship USPS boxes once a week at best.
Remember, this a rural gun shop, not Amazon.com!
There is no full time, highly automated shipping department.

Historical Shooting Inc shooting classes are still running,
only it is winter so things have quieted down a bit.
While you are waiting for your musket to be built, come on up and take a
historic firearms class so you'll know what to do with it when it arrives!

This is the list of current orders I am working on.

I will TRY to update this list when I get a chance, usually on Monday towards the end of the workday because
Monday is paperwork day but I cannot guarantee this...shop work always takes priority over paperwork.
Generally it get updated monthly because I'm just swamped with work here and can't spare hours of HTML code writing every week.

Please DO NOT contact me and tell me it hasn't been updated in a few days, my priority is working on your gun.

Emails from people complaining that the list is not up to date get deleted without a reply.

Please DO NOT contact me and complain that someone lower on the list than you is marked “Ready to prep”. It is because I had one of that model ready to go already.

Please read and understand the following instructions before asking me questions about your place on the list

HOW TO READ THIS LIST:

-All orders below are listed by invoice number, regardless of what was ordered

-For orders in black letters on white background, your item is not built yet

-Orange background means the invoice is on layaway and not paid for yet.

-Red highlights are a note for me, like a special task to perform or there is something I need to ask for clarification on

-Blue background means the gun is complete but still has to go through the shop and be reworked to make it fully functional

-Yellow background means we were told the gun is complete in the overseas vendor's warehouse
and is being shipped to us here in NH in the next shipment. It still will have to go through US Customs etc.

-Green background means the gun is complete, functional, tested and ready to ship

When looking yourself up to see where you are, don't look at your overall place in line, what matters is how many of the same model you ordered are ahead of you.

This list is primarily for my use to know what to work on next. I share this info as a courtesy only.

As each order is filled, it is removed from the list and everyone else below moves up. Any specific info on a particular order is on the right hand column.

This is the ONLY information available about the status of your order, please do not ask for any other information.

Accessory - only orders are pulled once a week to ship separately unless something Is backordered.

WHAT THE NOTES MEAN

The notes are self explanatory but people routinely write to me to ask what words mean instead of simply consulting a dictionary.

“Ready to prep” means the gun is complete, has arrived here at our shop but still needs to be torn down, inspected, vented, reworked if needed and tested.
This could take an hour or this could take a couple of days, depending on what that particular gun needs.

“Ready to ship” means it has been prepped and tested and is ready to pack for UPS

“Expected in next shipment” means it is complete and on it's way to us from the shop overseas, it will be marked
as such until it arrives here and is uncrated & logged in, at such time it will be marked "Ready to prep"

“Waiting for rest of payment” means the gun is prepped & tested, but was purchased via deposit and we are waiting for the rest of the payment

“Paid in full” means that the gun was on layaway and shows the balance is paid in full