It has been a pleasant day here at the NMLRA Education Center. Students working on their Kibler Colonial Rifle Kits are learning some of the finer techniques of longrifle decoration from Mike Brooks and Wayne Estes. While Kibler Southern Mountain Rifle students continue hardware clean up and stock sanding. 

Advancing on some of the lessons from yesterday on sock moulding lines, students observe as the instructors layout more complicated patchbox decorations and buttplate engraving. One student from Virginia, is personalizing his Kibler Colonial Longrifle with some motifs found on the original Virginia “Brass Barreled Gun”. It’s great to see students work to personalize their kits with history that relates to them, something hard to do with modern firearms.

To sign up for our class waiting list to be notified first of new classes with the NMLRA, visit NMLRA.org/education. We have several more classes to announce later this spring and would love for you to be a part of them!