Long rifles have been around much longer than these modern machine tools ... Williamsburg takes us through the process of crafting a flintlock long rifle circa 1700. All the videos are embedded ...

Historical timeline of the development of modern weapons ... no alteration. The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by ...

A modern firearm is likely to be mass-produced ... as he makes an 18th-century muzzle-loading flintlock rifle from raw materials. It’s a long video, but it leaves nothing out and has a really ...

“I’ve spoken with people personally who said now that they can use their modern rifles in the late season, they’ll never touch their flintlock again,” he said. “Hearing things like that ...