I posted this link down in the rifle sub-forum but thought it would fit well here as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWormsx8nug&list=PLX7ShyVYmgCbExTOXCPk-Uy4Wm6mrK4Lm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWormsx8nug&list=PLX7ShyVYmgCbExTOXCPk-Uy4Wm6mrK4Lm)
I first saw this in a middle school history class in the early nineties.
And to cause further confusion among the younger crowd and wistful nostalgia among the elder...
The teacher even had a reenactor (another teacher actually) bring his flintlock in the next day for us to see.
Wow. 300+ hours into making a rifled musket from scratch.
Master Gunsmith: blacksmith, foundry-man, carpenter, machinist and engraver.
Isaac Davis: Father, Husband, Farmer, Gunsmith, Captain of the Acton Minutemen.
This would be a good video to show anyone who makes the excuse that their groups aren't tighter because they just have a factory-stock barrel. I knew that the process was primitive, I did not know that they had to roll and hammer a flat sheet around a mandrel.
This is one cool video. Amazing... ..:..
And watching him make a lock from scratch.....
Kinda takes a bit of the shine off the AR I "built".
Quote from: Miller on March 01, 2014, 01:47:51 AM
And watching him make a lock from scratch.....
Kinda takes a bit of the shine off the AR I "built".
LOL - ain't that the truth.
I'd always wondered how they did it back then. Man - talk about labor intensive. And a whole lot of skill and knowledge went into their work.
Stock built by Wallace Gusler in 1959 at 19 years old, the young man in the video.
http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=13852.0 (http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=13852.0)
Interesting !
Gives even more meaning to " Molon Labe " !
Outstanding video. Many documentaries skim around and skip things.
It's great to watch every part come together.
There is nothing like taking raw materials and transforming them into something incredible.
And yes, it makes all of our home gunsmithing efforts look amateur in the extreme!