Kibler Southern Mountain Rifle Kit Assembly at the Shawshank Museum June 2019

Jim makes one of our Kibler Southern Mountain Rifle Kits from start to finish. This video is more "show" and a lot less "tell". The kit is in extra fancy maple, 40 caliber Rice Barrel, Chambers Ketland Lock, Kibler double set trigger and hardware made by Kibler.

The assembly of our kits in 2021 is a little bit different since we use our CNC machined Kibler Ketland locks, which already come drilled and tapped for the lock bolt. There are no barrel tenons to install since they are machined right into the Green Mountain/Kibler barrels. The barrel is 2" shorter and the surface finish is a lot smoother and takes much less time to draw file. The touch hole is installed.

We did a video this way because sometimes it's nice to just watch someone work and not have to listen to them talk and talk and Jim gets tired of his own voice sometimes. We hope that it will feel like you can sit down on the couch with a cup of coffee and spend just a little over an hour to watch a rifle get put together. We don't touch every single step, but we get most of them and hope you will forgive that it's not perfect for instruction. Our goal for this was enjoyment rather than instruction.

This project was filmed in 2019 and got set aside because we got busy and it was easy to put a memory card in a drawer and forget about it. It was a beautiful setting at the Shawshank Museum in Upper Sandusky Ohio, where Katherine is from. Her dad was an extra in the movie courtroom scene when it was filmed in 1994 as Tim Robbins' lawyer. The woodshop/museum made a beautiful backdrop for this project that we thought our viewers might like to see. You will notice the cardboard cutouts of some of the characters sprinkled in the background!

Once we got home from visiting family in Upper Sandusky, we came back to our front yard in Kensington Ohio to shoot it! Yes, we know Jim needs to wear ear protection so there is no need to mention it in the comments. Katherine yells at him regularly about this, but he can't hear her with the hearing damage.

Thank you for reading our little story and watching the video!
Step 1 SMR:    • Step 1 SMR Barrel and trigger install...  
Step 2 SMR:    • Step 2 SMR Lock, triggerguard and adj...  
Step 3 SMR:    • Step 3 SMR Fitting the Buttplate on t...  
Step 4 SMR:    • Step 4 SMR Fitting and Installing Ram...  
Step 5 SMR:    • Step 5 SMR Ramrod Tip, Installing Sig...  
Step 6 SMR:    • Step 6 SMR The final assembly of the ...  
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