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Member’s Work Bench => General Gunsmithing => Topic started by: doggoner on September 30, 2025

Title: Rifle making in the Great Smokey Mountains
Post by: doggoner on September 30, 2025
Here is an interesting read on rifle making in the Great Smoky Mountains put out by our very own government. Don't tell the purple hairs or they'll roll over and die.

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/popular/13/ps13-1.htm

doggoner
Title: Re: Rifle making in the Great Smokey Mountains
Post by: bmtshooter on October 01, 2025
That is much more detailed than what was in the old "Foxfire" books.   

Thanks
Title: Re: Rifle making in the Great Smokey Mountains
Post by: Hanshi on October 02, 2025
EXCELLENT!
Title: Re: Rifle making in the Great Smokey Mountains
Post by: Red Badger on October 09, 2025
Quote from: bmtshooter on October 01, 2025That is much more detailed than what was in the old "Foxfire" books.   

Thanks

I don't know... my foxfire series has the individual steps on making a rifle and how to construct the auger system for making rifled barrels... I know I will never have the time, or patience to create a barrel from a steel blank, but just knowing I have the knowledge to do it lets me sleep at night.
Title: Re: Rifle making in the Great Smokey Mountains
Post by: Fredredcj on October 12, 2025
The resourcefulness of our ancestors is amazing
Title: Re: Rifle making in the Great Smokey Mountains
Post by: hotfxr on October 18, 2025
That was my family. They settled in TN around 1740-1760 and have been causing trouble ever since! They were the ones on high ground for the most part.

Thanks for the link.
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