We're on one of the NMLRA "Woods walks" at the Walter Cline Range in Friendship, Indiana this week testing out our Traditions St. Louis Hawken just like the Mountain Men of the 1840s would have.
Sighting in our Traditions St. Louis Hawken .50 cal Caplock Muzzle Loader
Everything you need for your first trip to the range with your Hawken
Now that our Traditions Hawken is built, and we have a shooting pouch to carry our tools and a powder horn to carry our powder, it's time to head to the range for some fun. This is the muzzle loading cross over event of the year as we bring all of our winter projects together for some fun at the range.
Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 9 Final Assembly
Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 8: Staining, Oiling and Finishing the Stock
Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 7: Bluing your Barrel
Next on our list here is bluing the barrel, barrel rib, tang, and any other “white” iron pieces like screwheads. First though we are going to soak a cotton ball in some rubbing alcohol and wipe down all the pieces we want to blue. This is going to clean off any dust or dirt from the shop, but also remove any skin oils or other oils that may be on the parts to give us our best shot at an even blued finish.
Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 6: Preparing your Stock for Stain
Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 5: Brass Aging
Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 4: Brass Finishing
[Video] Building the Traditions Firearms Kentucky Rifle
Charge Media presents a short and quiet video on finishing up a Traditions Kentucky Rifle kit.
Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 3: Dryfitting
Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken Part 2 | The tools you'll need
In this video, we walk you through all the tools you’ll need to build this kit. This video was made after the kit was finished so we could accurately show you all the tools used. The basic list provided by Traditions is enough to get started, but we found there are some more tools that can really help the building process of one of these kits.
Let's Build a Traditions St. Louis Hawken
[Video] Shooting the Traditions Mountain Rifle .50cal Percussion with Buckskins and Blackpowder
Traditions Nitro Fire - Everything you need to know | New Hunting Muzzleloader 2020
The July 2020 Long Range Muzzle Loading Hunter Match
July 25-26 marked the second “Long Range Muzzle Loading Hunter Match” here at NMLRA headquarters in Friendship, Indiana.
Marksmen began arriving Friday night to get their gear sighted in on the NMLRA range. Some shooters remarked that our range behaves unlike any other range as they dialed in their scopes for expected crosswinds.