Muzzle Loader Building

Building a Kibler Kit with Mike Brooks and Wayne Estes | August 2020 Day 5

Follow along with the Kibler Kit assembly class from Mike Brooks

Building a Kibler Kit with Mike Brooks and Wayne Estes | August 2020 Day 4

Follow along with the Kibler Kit assembly class from Mike Brooks

Building a Kibler Kit with Mike Brooks and Wayne Estes | August 2020 Day 3

Follow along with the Kibler Kit assembly class from Mike Brooks

Building a Kibler Kit with Mike Brooks and Wayne Estes | August 2020 Day 2

Follow along with the Kibler Kit assembly class from Mike Brooks

Building a Kibler Kit with Mike Brooks and Wayne Estes | August 2020 Day 1

Building a Kibler Kit with Mike Brooks and Wayne Estes | August 2020 Day 1

Follow along with the Kibler Kit assembly class from Mike Brooks

4 Bore Rifle Build with Bill Raby Parts 6.5 & 7

4 Bore Rifle Build with Bill Raby Parts 6.5 & 7

Bill Raby is continuing his 4 bore rifle build on YouTube. He’s uploading videos weekly now as he progresses through this unique build. Be sure to catch his videos for some of the most in-depth build videos currently online.

Unboxing a Jim Chambers Flintlock Kit with Blackpowder TV

Black Powder TV unboxes a muzzleloader kit from our friends at Jim Chambers Flintlocks LTD! Check out the video today

Up Close and Personal with an RW Wright Flintlock Pistol from 1977

The pistol features a 54 caliber swamped barrel, but from the looks of the rifling, this was once a rifle barrel or section of a rifle barrel. Having shot it several hundred times, at NMLRA events, Max says it's quite accurate.

Demonstrating Muzzleloading Barrel Rifling with Rice Barrel Co.

Rice Barrel owner Jason Schneider demonstrates ‘old school’ rifling on a vintage style rifling machine owned by the NMLRA. This demonstration was part of the 2018 TN Muzzle Loading History Banquet.

Rice Barrel Co is a longtime NMLRA Commercial Row Vendor and has supplied muzzle loader builders with fine barrels for years. Find out more on their website ricebarrels.com


Building a Lancaster Flintlock with Bill Raby | Part 66

Bill Raby is nearly done building his Lancaster Flintlock Rifle. This in depth series seeks to give you a real look at longrifle building from start to finish. Bill is doing a great job sharing this process. If you are wanting to build your first muzzle loader, or your 10th, give this series a watch!

An All Around Gun | Building a Swivel Breech | Muzzle Blasts Archives

The idea for this gun came to me on a deer hunting trip in November 1985, while canoeing down the flooded Muscata­tuck River in southern Indiana in pursuit of whitetail. I had seen several does, but no bucks. It seemed, however, that in every other tree there was a squirrel. Normally, our gray and fox squirrels are very shy, but a week of being trapped by floodwaters had made them careless.

Flint Hammers, the Golden Mean and More.

This article appeared first in the November Issue of Muzzle Blasts Magazine in 1979. NMLRA Members can read this and every other article ever published. Sign up today

Benjamin Quearry, Gunmaker's Hall Chairman, shares some advice on keeping busy during COVID 19

As I write this the governor of Indiana has closed down the state due to the COVID-19 virus. Many businesses are closed. Schools are closed. Right now, we are at home, doing our civic duty to prevent the spread of this terrible virus. This is scary stuff. Without my faith in God even I’d be nervous.

Installing a Breechplug | The Apprentice’s Notebook Part 1

A good measure of your rifle's safety, reliability and durability de­ pends in how the breech plug is installed. Fitting that plug is not a job to be taken lightly but it is how I usually begin a rifle.