Wheel Gun Wednesday | Black Powder Revolvers

Thank you Buck Buchanan for sharing this beauty for #wheelgunwednesday Pietta “Shooters Model” NMA .44 revolver shot at Friendship at the fall national 1993. Scored a 99-5X at 25 yards in the “As Issued” Aggregate.

Did better in the Caplock Aggregate. Took 1st Place in the Expert Class with my Yazel .36. Agg score 290-13X/300. Shot a 93-2X at 50 yards. Beat the national champ and 43 master competitors. On “cloud 9” that year.

“Been busy with a different shooting sport and hadn’t done much with my black powder pistols in a long time. Dug them out today to dry fire them and now I’m itching to get them back out to the range some day. Wanted to share this revolver. A fantastic shooter. Helped bring me three revolver championships in a row as well as a national record. Good times. Can’t wait to visit friendship again some day.” Thank you Jason Gregoire for sharing this with us.

Daniel Howell on the revival of folk crafts and traditional skills | Muzzle Blasts Podcast

Daniel is a young father in the Western United States.

We're talking with Daniel Howell this week. Daniel has been involved in rendezvous out west for many years now, but in adult life has transitioned into studying and living by "primitive skills". A woodworker by trade, Daniel has continued to travel back in time, so to speak, re-learning what our forefathers and mothers lived by. 

Daniel is from the western US, so we get into some of the history and differences between what he studies, versus what someone like me from east of the Mississippi river studies. We talk about the skills and craft behind muzzleloading, as well as its history in the United States and how muzzleloaders went hand in hand with skills like foraging, woodworking, blacksmithing and more.

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Accepting the 2020 "1 of 1000" Horn from the Honourable Company of Horners

Each year at the Honourable Company of Horners Annual Horn Fair, the guild presents the NMLRA with the "1 of 1000" horn, a one of a kind handcrafted powder horn. This horn is shared by the NMLRA with the members of the 1 of 1000 endowment

Watch as this year's horn is accepted by "Muzzle Blasts" editor, Dave Ehrig before it is taken on the road to display before the September Banquet.

The horn is given away to a randomly drawn 1 of 1000 member each year at the 1 of 1000 member banquet. We'd like to thank the Honourable Company of Horners for their continued support of the NMLRA, and living history education.

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This year’s Horn was crafted by Walter Mayberry, and it is a true beauty.