We’re presenting these answers to help provide you with a variety of opinions to help you, the reader, select your next muzzleloader. Happy hunting!
Pandemic Lifehack: Blunderbuss with InRange TV [Video]
FLAT TOP ELK HUNT | Muzzle Blasts Archives April 2020
Four a.m. comes early wherever you are. Early morning is just as dark in the Colorado Flat Top mountain range as it is in Coshocton, Ohio. The hunt prep routine is different. Instead of hopping into a pickup, then onto an ATV, my partner and I were saddling our horses and loading the equipment we prepared yesterday afternoon. It would be an hour ride to the jump-off point for our morning elk hunt.
Demonstrating Muzzleloading Barrel Rifling with Rice Barrel Co.
Rice Barrel owner Jason Schneider demonstrates ‘old school’ rifling on a vintage style rifling machine owned by the NMLRA. This demonstration was part of the 2018 TN Muzzle Loading History Banquet.
Rice Barrel Co is a longtime NMLRA Commercial Row Vendor and has supplied muzzle loader builders with fine barrels for years. Find out more on their website ricebarrels.com
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Flint Hammers, the Golden Mean and More.
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3 Years of Developing the CVA Paramount Pro
Catch this new video from the NMLRA, we talk with Tony Smotherman at CVA about what went into working on the new paramount pro.
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Top 10 Videos with Muzzle Loaders to watch during COVID 19
Pistol Marksmanship | Part 2 | Muzzle Blasts Archives
It is exceedingly difficult to explain what there is about pistol shooting, the sport of handgunning, that is so compelling as to cause it to occupy so much a part of my time, effort and thought. Can it be the diversity and challenge the sport offers? What is it that prompts one to persist ently try to better that last score, to shoot that "possible" or to look forward to that legendary perfect score, the 100-l0x?
Pistol Marksmanship | Muzzle Blasts Archives
Talking with Dennis Priddy at NMLRA Gunmaker's Hall | 2019
We catch up with Gunmaker’s Hall Demonstrator and craftsman Dennis Priddy to talk shop about some of the muzzle loaders he brought to the NMLRA National Championships in September 2019.
Dennis has been a Gunsmith for many years now. Having always enjoyed working with his hands, he was naturally attracted to building muzzle loaders as the trade uses so many skills and disciplines.
We talk with Dennis about two of his muzzle loaders, each as ornate as the last. You would think these fine rifles spend their days locked in a safe, but the first rifle shown here is his daily driver and go-to hunting rifle!
These rifles are real works of art. To see them in person, begin planning your trip to the NMLRA Nationals soon!
A Tale of Two Black Powder Remingtons
An original Jacob George | Kentucky Rifle Foundation
We’d like to thank the Kentucky Rifle Foundation for sharing this beautiful Jacob George rifle with us on facebook.
“Jacob George, 1793 to 1850, son of Henry George a gunsmith, both of Greenwich Township, Berks County, PA. This is a signed and dated rifle so look at the rifle and try to guess it's age before you read the date. This rifle a a great example of his work, probably one of the best. It's hard not to appreciate all the work that went into this example.”
Be sure to check out The Kentucky Rifle Foundation website for more of these great Kentucky Rifles.
Boone’s Trace Biathlon 2020
Duelist1954 Builds a York County Flintlock
Popular muzzleloading and black powder youtuber Duelist1954 has been working on building his own York County Flintlock for a while now. In case you’ve missed it, he’s uploaded part 17 this week focusing on his process of inletting the butt plate.
In this update I'll install the butt plate on the York County flintlock rifle.
The Romance of the Smoke -Longhunter Record Breaking Pronghorn with Eric Stanosheck
We’re excited to announce a new episode of the Muzzle Blasts Podcast this week. For this episode, we’re talking to big game hunter and Longhunter Society Record holder Eric Stanoschek about his record-breaking pronghorn trophy.
In this episode, Eric recounts this record-breaking pronghorn hunt, but also his history with modern high power rifles and his eventual conversion to hunting exclusively with muzzleloaders.
For Eric there is something special about the one-shot challenge of muzzleloader hunting, he calls it “The Romance of the Smoke”. This love of hunting and muzzleloaders runs in his family, three of his four kids and his wife hunt with muzzleloaders.
Having hunted with muzzleloaders since the early 2000s, Eric has gone on 66 big game hunts and has 42 animals recorded in the Longhunter Society program.
For him, hunting and using Muzzleloaders is about the relationship with the gun. Unlike modern firearms, muzzleloaders can be a little tricky, and that’s what Eric likes. He says, “For me, hunting with a muzzleloader is about how close I can get and how much time do I get to spend with the animal.”
The NMLRA on Shooting USA! Tonight on the Outdoor Channel!
Tonight! Thank you Jim Scoutten's Shooting USA for featuring us on tonights episode!
(AmmoLand.com)- We’re slowing things down for Muzzle Loading in Friendship, Indiana at the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association’s Nationals. It’s one part competition and one part living history from the 1820s. And we’ve got George Sutton – Mr. Flintlock from Impossible Shots – as our guide to the people and the competition that draws folks to black powder.
Plus, the long story of the 1911s that are now History’s Guns.
Then, John reports from Hollywood with the cowboy guns from the movies.
And JP shows you how to choose and set your zero. More Info…
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