March/April 2026

ON THE COVER:
Detail from Longhunt, an original oil painting by Lon Brauer.

CONTENTS:
3 Letters from Our Readers
7 People to Watch Andy Ordelheide — Andrew Scott Wills
9 Doin’ It Yourself Making a Sawbuck Packsaddle — T.C. Albert
17 Shooting the Bull Back to the 1851 Navy Model & The Gunfighter Shoot-Out Challenge — Mike Nesbitt
27 Dispatches from New England Northern Confluence — Vincent C. Spiotti
35 18th Century Traveler Those Ohio Rifles Can Be Real Shooters — Matt Wulff
43 The Builder’s Bench Building the Three-Box Bean Rifle — Jim Parker
47 Buffalo Trace 1765 “The Silly Fashion of Those Times, for Riflemen to Ape the Manners of Savages”—How to Make Leggings — Nathan Kobuck
61 On the Game Trail The High Country — Clint Epps
70 Graig Osborne: The Longrifle School of Hard Knocks — Andrew Scott Wills
85 Lost and Alone — Mike Moore
91 Thirty Years Strong: The Contemporary Longrifle Association — Katie Horn
95 Classified Ads
96 Index of Display Advertisers