"Easy to learn on" kits?

[Hawk78]

Building a kit from a big factory can teach a person something about sanding and doing some metal finishing but not a lot more.
Buying a couple of good books that give instructions for assembling a muzzleloader along with a old, used, High School Metal Shop textbook to learn about doing the things that will need to be done would be a better use of money at this stage of the game.

You just informed me what resources I need to build a Track of The Wolf gun, thank you sir!

 

[gabedard]

I like the finish of your scout rifle, cool. And what is that hanging with it? A wrist guard?
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No finish on the Scout yet haven’t sanded it down yet
wrist guard indeed!
Primitive Osage bows hanging above

 

[leam]

I've started watching Jim Kibler's videos, nice stuff. It looks like he's taken the time to make it extra easy for new builders.

 

[Bighorserider]

I just watched Kibler's videos. He makes a beautiful rifle from a kit unlike any I have ever put together. Undoubtedly most people could build a great rifle fairly easily but you wouldn't learn much about gun building.

 

[leam]

I write (Children's Science Fiction) for a hobby, and have two ebooks on Amazon. Like many beginning writers, I drafted and re-drafted and really didn't get much done. There's a writer's self-challenge (nanowrimo.org) where you write an entire fifty thousand word novel in a November. It sounds impossible until you do it. It is exhausting.

The first time I "won" the challenge, there was a brain shift. I had written a novel. A real novel. It was a strong contender for the worst novel ever, but I had succeeded. Writing other novels became easier. While I still have a lot to learn, I do not have the "I can't do it" wall in front of me. It's been trampled over, hacked up, and used for kindling.

That's the role Jim's kits fufill. Those of us who "know" we can't build a rifle get over that "impossible" wall. It might be bug ugly, and we'll still have decades of learning ahead of us, but our feet will be firmly on the path.

 

[Sidney Smith]

I just watched Kibler's videos. He makes a beautiful rifle from a kit unlike any I have ever put together. Undoubtedly most people could build a great rifle fairly easily but you wouldn't learn much about gun building.

From what I've gathered, Kibler kits although gorgeous guns, are not the most involved works. Might be just the ticket for someone without much skill. But I still stand by my earlier comments about buying tbe cheaper kits to learn on. A mistake on a Kibler might cause someone to question building one themselves. A screwup on a cheap kit might not be so bothersome.

 

[Buckskinn]

Unless you are truly all thumbs I don't see how you could screw up a Kibler kit. Heck I started on a Chamber's kit knowing nothing and had a massive learning curve, but I have 2 rifles that turned out very nice.