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I was explaining the differences between a rifle and a smoothbore musket to one of my classes yesterday. I found that several kids were interested in how rifling is done, so I started looking for a short video demonstrating how rifling was cut and ran across this excellent video. It's from 1969 and follows the gunsmith at Colonial Williamsburg building a rifle from start to finish. If you have about an hour it's fascinating.
 
We don't have a gunshop at the Village, but I'm going to share the video with our staff.
Thanks for posting!
 
NutmegCT said:
We don't have a gunshop at the Village, but I'm going to share the video with our staff.
Thanks for posting!
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I thought you'd appreciate it. I wound up watching it start to finish during my planning period yesterday. I was truly impressed by the level of craftmanship he demonstrated.
 
He was there in the early '70's. Watched him work while standing within feet of him, talked about octagon barrels and "tiger-tail" maple stocks. We visited Williamsburg regularly back then, it was much less restricted than just a few years later. We wandered around, able to go into about any of the buildings and shops without challenge, the blacksmith forge and farrier, too. By '77 it had all changed.
 
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