[VIDEO] Kibler Kit Assembly Class Day 4 - Easy ways to add detail to your Longrifles

Day 4 of our Kibler Kit Assembly class with Mike Brooks and Wayne Estes has come and gone. Students spent the day rounding the final bend on their rifles, finishing additional carved details, and started tweaking ramrods to fit snuggly in their pipes.

[VIDEO] 2020 Kibler Kit Assembly Class with Mike Brooks Day 3

In case you missed it, we’re continuing with our video coverage of the Kibler Kit assembly class with Mike Brooks. During day 3, students begin staining their stocks, aging brass and we follow Mike as he helps a student repair a crack in their stock.

2020 Rich Hicks Memorial Match

How do you measure the success of a rifle match? Is it by the number of registered shooters? If so, our overall entering numbers are improving. However, the cartridge shooters have dropped off. If we use fine shooting, good sportsmanship, generosity, and beautiful weather as the gauge, then our match was outstanding. The food was tremendous! However, the wind was very strong and unpredictable.

Colors of the Fall - New Muzzleloader Hunting Teaser from Leatherwoods Outdoors!

If you like traditional muzzleloader hunting but don’t know about Leatherwood Outdoors, you have a lot of great videos to catch up. The team at Leatherwood Outdoors head out into the Pennsylvania woods each year with their flintlocks to hunt deer.

Pushing Blackpowder to the limit | Shooting at 1200 yards with Ian Egbert

This week we’re talking with Ian Egbert, an active muzzleloading and blackpowder cartridge shooting competitor. Ian was drawn to the history of muzzleloaders after attending a civil war battle reenactment at 8 or 9 years old, but soon fell in love with shooting and competing with blackpowder.

The 2020 Wes Hartley Memorial Over the Log Shoot

The 2020 “Wes Hartley Memorial Match” is in the books for over the log, or “chunk”, shooting enthusiasts of Vallonia, Indiana. Started 52 years ago by a group the line calls the “old-timers”, the match was kept alive in a year where many annual shoots were canceled.

The Lost Brigade Revisited | Muzzle Blasts Excerpts

Seems as though every single thing on God’s green earth possesses a subtle, inescapable, somewhat droll sense of humor. Even the basic, rudimentary forces of nature herself have a way of laughing/poking fun at you when you least imagine or expect it... And if a lad (or in this case, several lads) be smart, they’ll learn to laugh right along with Ma Nature and/or everybody else.

what are some good commercially available range/tackle boxes that folks use on the firing line?

Questions and answers from Facebook

“What are some good commercially available range/tackle boxes that folks use on the firing line?”

-Barry Geipel

Here are some of the most informative comments from the post.

Nathan G - I grew up using a craftsman toolbox. Plenty of room in the bottom for powder and patches and the tray is good for all the small stuff.

Judy M - MTM makes a great muzzle loading box! Reasonable priced and holds all your gear.

Chris K - Plano tackle box.

Denny R - Judy’s got your answer MTM is a great company that is supported our national muzzleloading rifle Association for years And the box is designed for muzzleloading

Bob S - I use a metal tool box that belonged to my Uncle I've got some Walnut I've planned to make one with. Been sitting around about 10 years now.

Gregory P - Try Sycamore Stations https://sycamorestations.com/


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Returning to the Wabash | Reliving History by Surviving in a Dugout Canoe with Eli Froedge and Jason Jacobs

One year to the day later, we’re back at the frontier home of Eli Froedge and Jason Jacobs as they recover from another expedition in their dugout canoe. In 2019, the pair set out to travel the Wabash river, not far from Eli’s home, south into the Ohio River.