While there have been many great builders over the past 50 years who have helped revive the recreation of the historically correct long rifle, there are many talented newer builders such as Allen Martin, Eric Kettenburg, Jim Kibler, Mark Wheland, Ken Eckenroth, Chuck Dixon, and others. There are more and more builders all the time as evidenced by AmericanLongrifles.org, a group of forums serving the interests of builders of traditional muzzleloading arms, with over 3000 members including most of the top builders alive today. AmericanLongrifles.org(ALR) was started in 1997 by Mark Elliott at same time that Gordon Barlow was creating the Contemporary Longrifle Association (CLA). The CLA is a membership organization consisting of students, collectors, and artisans producing contemporary (20th century and later) hand made recreations of long rifles, their accoutrements, and associated arms and crafts of pre-1840 America. The overflow crowds that fill the Lexington, KY Convention Center each August for the CLA annual meeting and show is evidence of the popularity of the contemporary long rifle and traditional crafts. There are also large suppliers for muzzleloading supplies such as Dixie Gun Works and Track of the Wolf as proof of the vibrancy of the contemporary long rifle. Then there are the numerous parts suppliers such as Jim Chambers Flintlocks, R.E. Davis, and L&R, for locks; Rice, Rayl, and others for barrels, Dunlap Woodcraft, Tiger Hunt, and Freddie Harrison among others for stock wood. Then there are hundreds of other individual artisans producing small parts and supplies for resale by the like of Track of the Wolf, Dixie Gunworks, Dixons Muzzleloading Shop, Stonewall Creek Outfitters, Tip Curtis, and others.