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White-tailed deer hunting season only has a few weeks left. Gun season ended in December, but archery season continues through Feb. 4. Squirrel, turkey and grouse seasons have already come and ...
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The NMLRA also sponsors an activity known as The Longhunter. The Longhunter program is designed to encourage the sport of muzzleloading while hunting large game due to the challenges and thrills such activity entails. It is associated with the Big Game Records Program which is the only trophy recognition program strictly for the muzzleloading ...
The Muzzle Loaders Associations International Committee (MLAIC) is the world governing body for competition with muzzle-loading firearms, both originals (made prior to 1900) and replicas thereof. MLAIC organises World Championships on even-numbered years, with European and Long Range Championships run in odd-numbered years. [ 1 ]
The American longrifle evolved from the German "Jäger" rifle; a popularly recognizable form of the "muzzleloader" was the Kentucky Rifle. Although by definition they must be reloaded after each shot in a time-consuming fashion, they are still produced for hunting. Comparable artillery pieces are termed rifled muzzle loader (RML).
Muzzleloading artillery evolved across a wide range of styles, beginning with the bombard, and evolving into culverins, falconets, sakers, demi-cannon, rifled muzzle-loaders, Parrott rifles, and many other styles. Handcannons are excepted from this list because they are hand-held and typically of small caliber.
(March 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The grain is the traditional measurement of the weight of bullets , black powder and smokeless powder in English-speaking countries. It is the unit measured by the scales used in handloading ; commonly, bullets are measured in increments of one grain, gunpowder in increments of 0.1 grains ...
Muzzleloading is the shooting sport of firing muzzleloading guns. Muzzleloading guns, both antique and reproduction, are used for target shooting, hunting, historical re-enactment and historical research. The sport originated in the United States in the 1930s, just as the last original users and makers of muzzleloading arms were dying out. The ...