Muzzleloaders | Traditional Flintlock Rifle Kits - Kiblers Longrifles
Has anybody built one of these yet?
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I’ve build a SMR and a Colonial before starting to make mines. These are high quality kits and worth every penny. If you want the simplest and least expensive one, go with the new barn gun kit.
I have not built a rifle in a long time. I might have to give that barn gun a try. One curious thing though. I have several books on long rifles and other period arms and I can not remember reading about the grease hole.
The grease hole is something specific to the early 19th Tennessee rifle. Hershel House chose to put one on his build in Foxfire vol 5. Some example can be found in books about Southern gun as you can see in the attached pics or this old article https://americansocietyofarmscollectors.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1971-B23-Tennessee-Rifles.pdf
But these are amazing to shoot, super light and handy. Not sure if Kibler has put a cast-off on his, but I put one my Foxfire build and the sights lines up perfectly when shouldering it.
You want to be a mod of this sub? It seems you know more about the subject than I do.
Maybe some day, but at the moment I don't have time to spare nor the energy to take this kind of responsibility.
I can understand. However, feel free to post any article in any language you like.