Southern Mountain Rifle Kit +$330 Lock Billed Separately
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Pricing
Payment Portal for $330 Ketland Lock to Ship with Kit$900 Base Price Kit = $1230 Total - $330 Ketland Lock billed separately (do not purchase through the store)
$1230 total Standard Maple (approx. 5-35% curl) or Cherry. $900 plus $330 lock billed separately
$1400 total if Fancy Maple (approx. 35-65% curl) or Walnut. $1070 plus $330 lock billed separately
$1570 total if Extra Fancy Maple (approx. 65-90% curl). $1240 plus $330 lock billed separately.
Shipping typically runs around $40-$100 but varies based on location.
Description
- Styling from the 1820s based on the work of Whitson in western North Carolina
- Stock has a pull of about 13.75” and a drop of approximately 3 5/8” and no cast off
- Available in curly maple, walnut or cherry wood or provide your own stock (2 " by 61" by 7" minimum blank size)
- Buttplate is approximately 1.375” in width and 4.5” in height.
- Iron mounted
- 44” custom profiled barrels. Breech .938” and waist approximately .700”. A very nice contoured barrel. It comes standard in square bottom rifling.
- Kibler's CNC Ketland Flintlock
- Kibler's CNC machined double set triggers.
- Stock CNC machined for extremely close tolerances and fine surface finish
- All holes drilled in the stock.
- Minimal work required for part fitting.
- Barrel has all sight dovetails cut, the underlugs are machined into the barrel, and the barrel is drilled and tapped for a White Lightning style touch hole liner which will come pre-installed
- Breech plug is fully machined and shaped and comes fit and installed
- Comes with all parts necessary to complete the rifle
- Right hand only.
- A very precise and well-designed kit with beautiful lines and styling.
Included parts
- Stock
- Barrel
- CNC Ketland Lock
- Kibler Double Set Trigger
- Touch hole liner
- Buttplate
- Trigger Guard
- Ramrod Pipes (3)
- Lock bolt washer
- Underlugs (4)
- 5/16 Hickory Ramrod
- Tapered Ramrod tip
- Front sight
- Rear sight
- Lock bolt
- Forward Tang bolt
- Rear Tang bolt
- .037" Pin stock
- Buttplate screws
In the white
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This service is available as an add on to a kit gun order. This is $700 for this service.
Your kit will arrive assembled, ready for you to customize and finish.
Finished rifles
We recommend the work of talented and experienced gunsmith, Chuck Edwards, for those who would like additional finishing work done on their Kibler Rifle. He can be reached at (573) 421-5098 and his online page is found on Facebook. He has finished out many Kibler rifles and does fantastic work. The pricing will vary depending on the work and should be discussed with Chuck.
I recently completed my Kibler .45 Southern Mountain Rifle kit, and the experience exceeded every expectation. The precision and quality of the components made the assembly process smooth and genuinely enjoyable — everything fit together beautifully right out of the box.
For the finish, I used Kibler’s tannic acid and iron nitrate, then gently rubbed it back with an abrasive pad to achieve a warm, natural depth of color. I completed the finish with Beck Flintlocks’ oil and wax, which brought out a soft luster and a smooth, hand-rubbed feel.
The end result is a rifle that looks authentic, feels perfectly balanced, and carries the satisfaction of true craftsmanship. It’s an incredible feeling to build a firearm of this quality yourself — one that’s both a work of art and a joy to shoot.
Thank you to the Kibler team for creating such an outstanding kit and making the experience of building a traditional longrifle so accessible and rewarding.
The Southern Mountain Rifle is a high quality flintlock kit. Kibler has done a great job with these and I am proud to own one. Mine is in .36 caliber and shoots great out to about 150 yards. I can't wait to try it out on some Mississippi squirrels and deer!
These component kits are admirable in their quality and architecture. The inletting
is consistently precise. However the lock that arrived with this kit had a hidden flaw that allowed the frizzen to fracture at the juncture of the face and the pan.
The exposed grain structure was very fine but the beginning of a fracture had
probably begun during heat treatment and let go when I snapped the frizzen closed. Things happen when you’re dealing with heat treated components yet
I’d never experienced a broken frizzen after many years of shooting firelocks.
This is probably a one-off and in no way tarnishes my admiration for the
Kibler enterprise.
👍!! As always, what more can I say.
Everything arrived in great shape and in less time than I expected. As stated, the southern will take a little more work than the kits done on the 5 axis machine. The stock had one small inclusion on the butt that I would not expect for fancy maple but I think will be unnoticeable after finish. All in all I am pleased up to this point but I am just at the beginning stages. I am approaching archery season here so I have not had much time to work on it. I will report back once I have completed it.
Shipping
Liquid Shipping
Liquids will not ship in the kit box. There are different regulations that apply to the chemicals that we sell and they will need to ship ground, when the kits will ship USPS Priority Mail. Plus, it would really stink if a liquid were to leak on your beautiful new kit!
Order tracking
You will receive tracking information when your item ships. For kits, you will be contacted before shipment and after shipment so there is no need to worry about a kit box shipping when you are out of town. All other packages will ship when available and you will be emailed a tracking link.
Get in touch
If you have questions, feel free to email us at info@kiblerslongrifles.com or give us a call at 330-551-5844. Even if you have to leave a message, we promise to get back with you right away. Bree can answer most questions and she will be sure to ask Jim when needed.