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The k you so much. I had to move to Missouri, but am hoping to start up videos again soon.

Thank you so much for the compliment. I’m glad you enjoyed! I hope to be doing more videos soon.

Awesome! Thank you for watching!

Yup

Thank you.

Thank you and thanks for watching!

I had to move to Missouri. I built a cabin here and am building my new gunshop now. Hope to be making more soon.

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🤣🤣🤣. Tally Ho!

I explain where to place it in video 2 or 3 I believe. But I don’t think it was shown how I drilled and tapped it. I used a 5/16” bit and tapped it for the “White lightening” touchole liner. You can purchase them at muzzleloader builders supply or Track of the wolf. I’ll do a video sometime and show more in detail how to do that.

It’s only on the outside. There are what are called Tapered, straight and Tapered and flared (swamped) barrels. If you can’t see transitions looking down the outside of the barrel, it’s probably a straight barrel. They tend to be more end heavy. Tapered and flared (swamped) takes the nose weight out.

Yes. I didn’t have one for the video. Planes work great! I still prefer to use chisels for the ramrod channel but for the barrel channel I start with chisels and then go to a plane.

The video of me shooting at the end and the video of me explaining a brief history on flintlocks, is the the rifle that was built in the series. Looking back I would’ve done a few things different on my videos but still think my camera guy did an awesome job. I plan to make more videos soon.

Same here. Disabled Marine. Best way to contact me is through my email at goldenmeanflintlocks@gmail.com where we can exchange numbers or if you have someone that can send me a message on Instagram.

Love the Ferguson.

I hope to do an entire series on that someday. It’s a huge process and takes at least two guys to do it. Finding committed help with that is difficult but I’ll sure try someday.

Books on building g are difficult to find. But books like “Rifles of colonial America” and others are great for pictures so you can study them to see how their lines are. Mike Miller has a series out on DVD where he goes through step by step. You can order his dvd through Pioneer video.

I’ve had a terrible time locating books that go step by step on the building. Gunsmith of Grenville county is good. Other than that, I just bought books and studied their lines in the images and slowly I learned lol. Sorry I’m not more help with that.

Yes, we lost the footage of the first one when I was carving it. I had to make another rifle for the last video.

The barrel actually isn’t the hardest part. Forging the lock and the springs and getting everything to function properly is the hard and most time consuming part. Making a barrel takes 1 day to forge it, 3-4 days to ream it, 1 day to file it, 1 day to make the plug, and 4 hours to rifle it. Less than a dozen people still know how to do all that. And if you’re in a profession to make a living, not too many people can afford that. A 100% completely hand made rife including each screw costs about $35,000. I plan on doing a video one of these days on forging and filing each part. But that will be in the future sometime.

@@goldenmeanflintlocks9713 the lock and springs and the lock are absolutely fiddley, but the barrel bored and reamed and rifled and kept straight from a flat bar of steel is objectively the hardest part and required more specialised precision equipment. As a viewer the fact it’s not included is pretty lame In my opinion considering in the states you can go buy all of that stuff CNC made and ready to go. probably not a massive deal to most people but I couldn’t even watch the video after you pulled out that premade barrel. I hope you do a full Musket from scratch as the video looked high quality along with the editing, so it’d would get a watch from me

Absolutely! Some of my customers shoot elk with there’s. Had another customer take his to Africa for big game as well.

Thank you! I live around Sedalia area.

I order mine from Rice, Colerain and Ed Rayle.

Thank you! I will after I get my shop built! I’m really glad you enjoyed.

I order from Rice, Colerain and Ed Rayle.

There’s a video you can buy on “pioneer videos” on the NMLRA website. Also, the colonial Williamsburg gunsmith video is a good source too. If you’re jus looking to buy one that’s been machine made, Rice, Colerain and Ed Rayle make great barrels and other barrel makers as well. Hope this helps you.

Hello!

The one where I’m doing the shooting video is the rifle built in the episodes. We lost the footage of the carving, staining and finishing of that rifle. So I had to do another rifle to explain the carving and finishing.

Glad you enjoyed.

Thank you so much! I really appreciate that!

I don’t offer classes yet, but hope to in the future. My smoothbores are $2,500 and rifles around $3,000 depending on how fancy.

Thank you for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed!

Thank you so much!

Thank you! I’m hoping to make more. Just been a hectic last couple years.

I am researching that one a lot. I will probably try to do a video on it if I try to build one.