American Longrifles

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 1/15/2019 | F Jardim

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The School Dedicated To Longrifle Building
Knowledge is a fleeting thing if steps aren’t taken to preserve it. Whether it’s building the pyramids or a family recipe, if knowledge isn’t passed on to subsequent generations, it is eventually forgotten and lost. Thirty-four years ago, the passionate desire to preserve the 18th century gun-making techniques, by which American longrifles were handcrafted, led to the creation of an extraordinary training seminar by Professor Terry Leeper, Ph.D., of Western Kentucky University (WKU) and master gunmakers Wallace Gusler and Jon Bivins.
Three years later the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA) began cosponsoring the seminar and it remains the premier resource for serious subject-matter students. While classes are technically challenging, the instructional team has years of experience at meeting both the basic and most advanced skill levels of the participants. It is serious scholarly instruction in the true master-and-apprentice style.

Prior to every seminar, the instructors assemble a study collection of original and contemporary black-powder firearms (frequently valued in excess of a million dollars) for participants to examine and learn from hands-on investigation and observation. A glance over the five-volume Journal of Historical Arms making Technology that grew out of the early seminars indicates the depth of knowledge available for the asking. If you want to learn how every part of a firearm was made over 200 years ago, how to make the tools and dies required and what materials were used, there are instructors at the seminar who know.

Every year several of the best contemporary artisans/artists who specialize in making guns and related accouterments in the manner they were made over two centuries ago, gather and spend nine to 10 days passing on that knowledge for the 50 to 70 students who attend. Read the rest of American longrifles.

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Here’s a video on the making of the US Army Springfield 1861, and how it was used in the Civil War.

Did you know that it was being made at both the Springfield Armory and the Harper Ferry Armory in 1861? The US Army Colonel in charge of Harpers Ferry thought the armory might be seized by the Confederates so he burned it down. BUT, he did not destroy the fabricating machines which the Confederates took South and started producing their own Springfield 1861’s!

Video here, narrated by Boromir/Ned Stark (Sean Bean)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5NtBFVUB3Q

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3369375/posts

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