The NMLRA Pistol Range is happy to see warm weather arriving in Indiana. Shooters from around the area are packing up their shooting boxes and heading to the range each month for friendly competition, friendship, and fun.
2021 NMLRA Pistol Match Dates
Join the NMLRA Pistol Shooters for several weekends of muzzleloading fun at the Walter Cline Range in Friendship, Indiana. These weekend matches are focused on friendly competition, friendship, and introducing new shooters to the sport.
Whether you shoot a traditional or modern muzzleloading pistol, these matches are a great way to brush up on your pistol shooting skills and have a great time all at once!
2021 NMLRA/NRA Regional Long-Range Black Powder Cartridge Knockdown Silhouette Match
Talking Shop, Shooting, and Barrels with Jason Schneider of Rice Barrel Company
This week we’re talking with Jason Schnieder, owner of Rice Barrel Company. Rice barrels has been known in the muzzleloading world for fine barrels for many years now, and with interest in muzzleloading growing, we wanted to sit down with Jason and learn more about how the record setting Rice Barrels are made.
Pushing Blackpowder to the limit | Shooting at 1200 yards with Ian Egbert
A weekend of black powder cartridge rifles, fellowship, and competition
July 2020 APEX HUNTER Long Range Precision Muzzle Loading Rifle Match | NMLRA
The July 2020 Long Range Muzzle Loading Hunter Match
July 25-26 marked the second “Long Range Muzzle Loading Hunter Match” here at NMLRA headquarters in Friendship, Indiana.
Marksmen began arriving Friday night to get their gear sighted in on the NMLRA range. Some shooters remarked that our range behaves unlike any other range as they dialed in their scopes for expected crosswinds.
2020 NMLRA Youth Shoot Awards Ceremony
The Creedmor Era | Research Press
Want to learn more about the Creedmoor Era? Research Press has an entire webpage dedicated to it including information on the military rifle matches, the rifles, and ammunition used, chronology, and history of the home range available here
How do you minimize the effects of wind on rifle, and wind on body when shooting?
Announcing the NMLRA Long Range Muzzleloading Hunter Match, July 25-26, 2020
Now with $2,400 in Prizes!
July 25 and 26, Shoot Saturday or Sunday or Both. Same course of fire both days
(Not an Aggregate)
$30.00 for one day, $50.00 for both days. Medals for 3 places. Apex Hunter side match after main match $20.00 pay in, winner take all.
Practice period 0800-0900, Shooter Meeting at 0930
Drawings for gift certificates and merchandise:
2- Vortex Optics gift certificates valued up to $800.00 each.
1-Arrowhead Rifles gift certificate value $100.00
2- Fury Bullets gift certificates valued at $50.00 each
$500.00 in EGW gift certificates
Rules:
15 lb. weight limit as shot. Rifles will be weighed at registration.
Any sight- open-peep-scope.
Black Powder or black powder substitute, Maximum Allowed by Powder or Rifle Manufacturer. No Smokeless Powder
Front and rear rest allowed, must be separate. (No lead sled type rests)
Course of fire main match:
15 shots for score.
Spotters Allowed.
5 full size Silhouette animals at 300 Meters, 385 Meters, and 500 yards.
3 sighter shots at each yard line.
18 minutes per scoring relay.
APEX HUNTER Match Course of fire
No spotter allowed.
Yardage and Target announced at shoot
Limited to first 20 shooters
Special Prize drawing for APEX Hunter Shooters
Match Director reserves the right to make any changes to rules, course of fire, or safety concerns as deemed necessary.