Opening day of the early muzzleloader season here in Pa was Saturday October 14, and by 8:00 am Ian had this nice doe standing broadside at 35 yards. Ian is hunting with his .54 caliber Pennsylvania Mountain Rifle that he picked up last year. Ian is an avid shooter and hunter, and this was his […]
Congratulations to Eric for his 1st Place ribbon at Dixons Gunmakers Fair this weekend for the excellent job he did on his first ever flintlock build. Eric attended our Arms Making Workshop the last 2 years where he learned the necessary skills to build and complete his Colonial American Pistol! Awesome job Eric!
George is a student in our Arms Making workshop and has now built himself several rifles, returning year after year to perfect his skills. He is also an avid hunter who spends a lot of time in the woods working up the perfect load for his rifles. He recently harvested a doe using his Straight […]
Tom Shaw, a longtime student in our Arms Making Workshop, harvested this beautiful Pennsylvania Turkey this year with his smoothbore, Pennsylvania Mountain Rifle that he built during last year’s Workshop. Congratulations to Tom on a beautiful turkey harvest using a rifle he crafted himself!
Thom Stein, a longtime friend and local hunter here in York PA, shot this monster 12 point with his .54 caliber flintlock rifle that was custom built by Brad. Thom said he weighed in at 200lbs!! Congratulations to Thom on a beautiful buck!
We would like to congratulate George Stiles on his recent turkey harvest. George is a student at our Arms Making Workshop, and he built this .54 caliber, straight rifled, Colonial Virginia rifle during his time at the shop. He said it shoots number six shot really well out to 25 – 30 yards and gets […]
George was hunting in New York this weekend with his custom built, Straight Rifled, Colonial Virginia rifle. George built this rifle from one of our Virginia Rifle kits during our Arms Making Workshop and he couldn’t wait to get out in the woods and see how it did. He had a great weekend, and ended […]
We received a phone call and a follow up email from Jeff over the weekend, who couldn’t wait to tell us about his first deer kill with a muzzleloader. He was using one of our .54 caliber Virginia Rifles we built him… “Brad and Shane I just wanted to let you both know how happy […]
George has a custom built, 54 caliber J.P. Beck rifle that we built him a few years back. He was out hunting this weekend in Pennsylvania for our early muzzleloader season when he caught a glimpse of this doe from his tree stand. She came about 40 yards away and George nailed it! He’s a […]
Winston took this Turkey on April 20 while hunting up in Michigan where he lives. It was the first turkey he took with his Colonial American Fowler, which he just recently completed. He has taken our Arms Making Workshop a couple years in a row now, and took what he learned during class and applied […]