Firearms
Muzzleloaders
Front-loading black-powder arms — flint and percussion. Build kits, finishing, loading, and the long global history of the muzzle-loading gun.
Live Blunderbuss Kits Compared A buyer’s guide to every blunderbuss kit — Traditions, Pecatonica, Stonewall Creek 4-gauge, the Rifle Shoppe Ketland, and the finished imports — with a which-should-you-build verdict. Live
Live Hand Mortars The short, 2½-inch-bore muzzleloader built to lob a grenade, a signal, or a firework — its history, the kits and originals you can buy, and how to actually shoot one. Live
Live A History of Muzzleloaders The muzzle-loading gun across five centuries and every continent — hand cannon to rifle-musket, the wars it fought, and the designs that worked. Live
Live The Rifle Shoppe Ketland Blunderbuss Building the Rifle Shoppe’s British Ketland blunderbuss — an investment-cast parts set copied from an original, in .75 caliber: the buyable, museum-accurate premium build. Live
Live Stonewall Creek 4-Gauge Blunderbuss Building the rare Stonewall Creek 4-bore blunderbuss — a Rayl brass barrel, a Chambers English lock, a Keck precarve stock, and a true ~1-inch coach-gun bore. Live
Live Traditions Blunderbuss Kits Building Traditions' .54 flared-barrel blunderbuss kits — KR500 percussion and KR510 flintlock — from box to a finished, shootable piece. Live