The Education Center on the grounds of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association will be bustling on the weekend of July 24-25. The staff is pulling together a great show of artisans with their different items to browse and purchase. Below is a list of the vendors and items that will be here to look at and some for purchase.
Seems like people just have a natural talent for doing stuff...making things. Things that aren’t merely functional, sturdy, more or less historically accurate and get the job done – things that look like somebody just ripped them out of 250/260 years ago and stuck ‘em right up in front of your face. Weapons, clothing, accouterments that grab you by your heart-strings and whisper; “Hey, you need to buy me – now”! My friend Chris Crosby is one of those supremely talented, tremendously motivated sort of craftsmen
In this book, Briggs and Stevenson demonstrate how the relationship of the Moravians to longrifles did not end with Andreas Hoger. Wachovia became a center of the early gunsmithing trade with talented craftsmen like Andreas Betz, Valentine Beck, and Jacob Loesch. The Salem rifle became a “gold standard” for early southern rifles that influenced the style of the non-Moravian craftsmen.
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