Yard sale bargin
 

A couple of weeks ago I was riding around with mom and dad checking out some yard sales and stumbled across this $30 jewel. It's a .45 cal Miruko. I am not as fortunate as Sabotloader and find an MK-85 but for $30 I figured it might be fun to play around with some. I need to get out and shoot but it's rained everyday for the past week. I have to put a new nipple in it and hopefully I will get to shoot some soon.

any muzzy for $30 is a good deal. Unless of course its a rust bucket.

A fellow at a Rendezvous was shooting what appeared to be the exact same rifle one year. It was doing a fine job. And was a good looking gun. I think you got a heck of a deal.

Sweet deal.

Sometimes we scratch our heads on why that ML ever found itself on a table in a garage/yard sale. There's lots of reasons why and I'll just mention one reason.... out of many.

Some folks enter-into knee-jerk reactions when their sidehammers continually hang/misfire. They get so pizzed-off they darn near give the ML away. They want it out of the house sometimes A.S.A.P.

I know! - I've been there, as recently as last December. Took a CVA Bobcat and Traditions Deerhunter into a pawnshop and told the owner I wanted back out that front door without those two MLs.


Needless to say, he didn't offer me fair returns for them. My "steaming mad" frame-of-mind one week earlier in the hunting woods, turned into a pretty bad hatred for those two MLs and I accepted the pawn shop owner's purchase offer.

..... and guess what?,...... I don't miss those two MLs one-bit and perhaps the former Miruko owner doesn't miss his either. Multiple times I have purchased MLs on the cheap - fixed them and resold them. I could have fixed both the Deerhunter and Bobcat.

..... but I wanted them out of my gun safe and out of my house A.S.A.P. Why?..... I hated them.

Needless to say the Miroku isn't in bad shape. I really didn't find anything wrong with it. Just couldn't pass it up being so cheap. I am sure I could make out very easily if I re-sale it but I will shoot it and see how well she shoots. It seems to have a very good balanced. I will find out Monday as it is supposed to dry up around here. I have never been a .45 cal fan ever since my first ML back in 1980. I had scrounged up $45 and purchased an old Jukar .45 cal. However, I have less in this one and I am sure it will shoot well. I cleaned it up and slugged the barrel and lapped the bore. I know it's an older rifle but I thought it could use a little polishing.

last summer a friend of mine in boise said that a friend of his had a whites for sale at a gun show .he wanted to know if i wanted it.i said if it looks ok see what you can get it for.when he came up to his cabin later that week he handed me a whites s/s sportsmans warehouse edition 26 inch barrel with a dirty barrel that cleaned up beautiful. price 150.00 if someone hated this one and got rid of it i thank them

My neighbor has that same rifle with a flintlock ignition. It shot round balls half decent when it would go off. Turns out the frizzen was too soft for reliable spark. He bought a T/C Hawken .50 flinter and hung the Miroku on the wall.

BPS

Price was right on that one slowburn. :D

Many ML enthusiasts probably get frustrated for one reason or another, and probably most don't truly know enough about the rifles to understand value/condition, etc.

My dad found a percussion ML pistol one time at his gun club, laying on a shooting bench. There was a note under it that said "This gun is NOT lost, you can have it!!!!" It wasn't a valuable gun, but it was in decent shape and he said it shot ok. Somebody had had enough I guess. LOL

That is quite a find - it certainly has 'classic' lines. Have you been able check out the bore?