Building a Kentucky Rifle Part Two
18th Century
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2h 24m
Enjoy another 2-1/2 hour program with Hershel House demonstrating options on building flintlock rifles with a swaged muzzle cap or a two piece muzzle cap, silver wire inlay, inletting a silver name plate in a gun barrel, tuning a gunlock, making a traditional worm for cleaning a gun & how he sharpens his tools.
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