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A Traditional, NON CORROSIVE Longrifle Hardware Finish

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Step into the classroom as Mike Brooks and Wayne Estes teach students how to assemble their own Kibler Longrifle Kits. In this video, we follow along as Wayne Estes shows a student how to fire blue the metal hardware for their Kibler Southern Mountain Rifle Muzzleloader kit

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The Crockett Longrifle Project featured in "Garden and Gun"

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It is very exciting to see Greg Murry’s book in the flesh AND being featured in ‘Garden and Gun” Magazine. It’s not every day that muzzleloaders appear in such a popular publication.

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 9 Final Assembly

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 9 Final Assembly

We’re finally ready to do our final assembly on this Traditions St. Louis Hawken Kit. We’ve got all of our parts treated, our stock is ready to go, and it’s time to see what it looks like all together!

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 8: Staining, Oiling and Finishing the Stock

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 8: Staining, Oiling and Finishing the Stock

With our hardware finished, we’re ready to move onto finishing out stock. In the previous parts of this series, we’ve done a lot to this stock to make it fit and feel right, but the stain and oiling is going to be the most dramatic change, so buckle up and let’s get to it.

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 7: Bluing your Barrel

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 7: Bluing your Barrel

Next on our list here is bluing the barrel, barrel rib, tang, and any other “white” iron pieces like screwheads. First though we are going to soak a cotton ball in some rubbing alcohol and wipe down all the pieces we want to blue. This is going to clean off any dust or dirt from the shop, but also remove any skin oils or other oils that may be on the parts to give us our best shot at an even blued finish.

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 6: Preparing your Stock for Stain

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 6: Preparing your Stock for Stain

When it comes to your stock finish, a lot of the process comes down to personal choice. For my kit, I’m going to do a little sanding, some whiskering, some scraping, and some burnishing. To start though, we’re going to get a nice even surface on the stock with some sandpaper.

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 2 | The tools you'll need

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 2 | The tools you'll need

In this video, we walk you through all the tools you’ll need to build this kit. This video was made after the kit was finished so we could accurately show you all the tools used. The basic list provided by Traditions is enough to get started, but we found there are some more tools that can really help the building process of one of these kits.

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken

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Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken

In this series, Muzzle Blasts Field Agent Ethan cracks open a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Kit and builds it. These kits are a simple and affordable way to get started in muzzleloading, and kits are bigger than ever with COVID 19 keeping many at home.