Muzzleloading

2020 NMLRA Youth Shoot Awards Ceremony

2020 NMLRA Youth Shoot Awards Ceremony

Don’t miss the awards ceremony for the 2020 NMLRA Youth Shoot. With 85 registered youth shooters, we had an amazing turnout.

NMLRA Black Powder Bonanza! August 14-15, 2020

Join us for a weekend of Black Powder Fun!

We will have Trap, Skeet, Pistol, Double Rifle (Sat 9am) and Sporting Rifle (Fri 4pm) all open at the Walter Cline Range in Friendship, Indiana

NMLRA Member Peter Wygant shares his 14 Gauge David Lloyd Muzzle Loading Shotgun

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NMLRA Member and craftsman Peter Wygant is a top contributor to the NMLRA facebook group. Peter often shares photos of his builds like this shooting box (Right) that he donates for NMLRA fundraising efforts.
We’re happy to see posts like this one though, where Peter gets some muzzleloaders out to have some fun shooting blackpowder.

Going to try to shoot this little beauty tomorrow.....14 gauge David Lloyd of Broad Street, London....Has London proofs and LL marked on the bottom of the barrels...Was hoping for CL, don’t know who LL is. Very light weight, can only handle 3/4 oz of shot and 2 drams of powder in her.....13/16 is the best round of skeet so far with it.....
— Peter Wygant
Well I hit 12 out of 16, not a stellar performance but I’ll have to take it. All cleaned and put away....
— Peter Wygant

How Patches affect your Roundball Shooting | Muzzle Loading Tips

Many black powder rifles, regardless of cost or craftsmanship, are quite inaccurate. Not because they are made wrong, but because the owner doesn't know what makes it accurate and therefore experiments in ignorance.

Preserving the "Journal of Historical Armsmaking Technology" Book Series


First published in 1985, this series provides a scholarly approach to understanding the technologies which have comprised the gunmaking trade since its inception.

Unscientific but Effective | Reloading a Flintlock Smooth Bore in the field with Keith Syers

Unscientific but Effective | Reloading a Flintlock Smooth Bore in the field with Keith Syers

We spent the weekend out in the woods camping with some long hunters in Eastern Indiana. Watch as Keith Syers from Ramshackle Homestead and Survival makes use of the natural environment around him to keep his flintlock smooth bore going.

Rate of Fire or Accuracy? The India Pattern Brown Bess and the 1800 Baker Rifle: Firepower Compared

In this episode of the "Firepower Series", we compare the Brown Bess and the Baker Rifle.

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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