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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">My personal shooting range is located on what was once the bottom of an ancient lake that was in some places 2,000-feet deep. Of course, that was more than a million years ago, and the bottom of that huge glacier created lake is now the Missoula Valley of Western Montana. The elevation where I annually shoot 3,000+ muzzle-loaded rounds is right at 3,000 feet.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">Missoula, a city of 70,000 people, is the largest such city in the U.S. that is completely surrounded on all sides by mountains...with some of the peaks reaching 9,000 feet. There is easy access to a lot of high country where, when it begins to heat up too much in the valley bottoms to do a lot of shooting with saboted bullets, that I can load up and drive to a reasonably remote mountain valley or ridge and get in a morning of shooting with temperatures in the 40's - even in July and August.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">On my valley range, I generally sight rifles to place point of bullet impact approximately 2 inches high, to preserve my point of aim. When we take the dogs and spend a few days in the mountains to get away from city noises, I always take along a muzzleloader or two - and try to get is some high elevation shooting. I have noticed that at 5,000 to 6,000 feet, point of impact often moves up another inch or two - depending on the load and bullet.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">One test I hope to complete by the end of summer is to see if I can actually discern an approximate change in that point of impact at 4,000...5,000...6,000...and maybe 7,000 feet. The rifle I'll be using for this test is the new 30-inch barreled Traditions .50 VORTEK StrikerFire LDR - shown in the photo above. This shot was taken at one of my favorite high country shooting spots, at about 6,000 feet. The snow capped mountains in the background are the Mission Mountains of Western Montana...with several peaks up around 9,000+ feet. </span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">If you have the opportunity to shoot at such radical changes of elevation...have you noticed any significant changes in point of impact?</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">This will be posted as the July "Question of the Month" on the NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING website - at www.namlhunt.com</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">Toby Bridges</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">NORTH AMERICAN</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;" /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.285999298095703px;">MUZZLELOADER HUNTING </span></span><br />
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At the 2014 NRA Show and Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana April 25, 26 and 27, Remington Arms unveiled its latest muzzle-loaded big game rifle - the .50 caliber <b>Ultimate Muzzleloader</b>.<br />
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Our question to you is...have you ever achieved 2,300 to 2,400 f.p.s. with a load built with four of the so-called "50-grain" <b>Triple Seven Pellets</b>?<br />
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Mike is a Civil War follower and photographs Civil War re-enactments. He's looking for a great condition Dixie Gun Works (made by Euro Arms) .451 caliber hexagonal bore Whitworth target rifle. He called Dixie and was informed that they didn't have any of the rifles on hand - and that they did not plan to stock the rifle any longer. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-68819425647997265252014-02-25T09:26:00.000-08:002014-02-25T09:29:31.069-08:00New Double Features Pages To Become A Regular Feature On NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING Website!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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To bring you even more great muzzleloader hunting and muzzleloader performance articles, we are going to include at least one "Double Feature" page every quarter - and on those pages you will find two feature articles or reports. This link will take you to the first of those pages -<br />
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On this page you will find an article on hunting whitetails with the .50 caliber Traditions VORTEK Pistol (and Hi-Lux Optics Max TAC-DOT red-dot sight) shown above...plus another article that takes a look at why the Scorpion PT Gold bullets produced by Harvester Muzzleloading are the favorite hunting bullets of NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING.</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-215586007632312992014-01-31T09:57:00.000-08:002014-01-31T09:57:09.547-08:00Looking For A Knight .50 Hawkeye Pistol<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-36087840066228610352014-01-20T08:04:00.001-08:002014-01-20T08:16:47.311-08:00"Why Can't I Duplicate The Load Ballistics Published On The NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING Website?" <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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World events are so much easier captured for the public to see due to the fact that such a large percentage of people now have a camera with them at most times - whether that camera is an actual digital still or video camera...or simply a cellphone with photography or video capability. Snapping photos, either still or moving, has never been easier.<br />
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Somewhat in the same light, inexpensive yet reliable chronographs have made it so much easier for the typical shooter to clock the bullet speeds of his loads. On a somewhat regular basis, <b>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b> hears from muzzleloading shooters who have acquired a new chronograph - and a few have been shocked to find that, shooting the same rifle...powder...charge...sabot...and bullet...ignited by the same No. 209 primer or percussion cap...they are getting velocities that are often 50...75...or even 100 f.p.s. different than the loads and data we've compiled on all of the pages found at the following link -<br />
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That does not surprise me. The fact is, on any given day, I experience the very same thing. It simply boils down to the fact that you are not going to get the same velocities on a -10 degree (F) morning that you achieve on a +80 degree (F) or warmer afternoon. Likewise, a variety of other factors also come into play that will affect the day to day velocities any shooter achieves, including the percentage of relative humidity in the air and the elevation of the range where you are shooting.<br />
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I've been on hunts where mornings were below zero and afternoons well into the 50's. Yes, it will affect point of impact...but normally not enough to be of any real consequence. A 50 or 60 degree temperature change will very commonly move point of impact up or down an inch or two - but with a properly sighted modern in-line rifle and a good center hold on the chest cavity of the game being hunted (at 50 to 150 yards), shooting a 250- to 300-grain saboted spire point bullet at 1,900 to 2,000 f.p.s., should put the shot squarely through the kill zone, perhaps an inch higher or lower than where the crosshairs were at the shot.<br />
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Here at <b>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b>, we try to hit our range two or three times a week in April, May and June, then again in late September, October and early November - basing when we shoot on temperature. Our range (shown above) is located in a shallow valley about 15 miles northwest of Missoula, MT. For us, the ideal shooting temperatures are 45- to 55-degrees - often meaning that during early Spring and late Fall, we shoot more in the afternoons - while in late Spring and early Fall we hit the range in the mornings. <br />
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The ballistics data on the website was compiled from the shooting we've mostly done within that temperature range. Still, we do a great deal of shooting when it's much hotter...or much colder. This ongoing testing is conducted to see how those weather changes affect velocities, accuracy and point of impact. Our published loads and data are simply a base, shooting during the most ideal weather and temperature range, in order to allow a comparison of rifle, powder and projectile performance.<br />
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During 2013, between our coldest and hottest shooting sessions there was an extreme spread of almost 110-degrees (-10 the coldest and +99 for the hottest). Shooting our 30-inch barreled Traditions .50 <b>VORTEK Ultra Light LDR </b>test rifle, loading with 110-grains of <b>Blackhorn 209</b> and the 300-grain <b>Scorpion PT Gold</b>, we experienced right at a 90 f.p.s. variation in velocity (fastest during cold weather and slowest during extremely hot weather). Still, every shot would have taken a whitetail at 100 yards.<br />
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Before heading out on a 2013 Missouri Breaks hunt the week before Thanksgiving, the sighting of the rifle was tweaked to bring the point of impact up about an inch - and 5 days later a single shot dropped a nice 10-point buck at 140 yards. As the weather changes, tweaking the sighting of any modern in-line rifle should be an ongoing thing...especially when a major weather and temperature change rolls in. - <b>Toby Bridges, NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dave wants to know...<i>"Where can I find parts for the Austin & Halleck Model 420 rifle?"</i></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-46240718999759522472013-11-15T08:15:00.000-08:002013-11-15T08:15:23.091-08:00NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING Newsletter...Summer-Fall 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been busy here at <b>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b> since we published our Winter-Spring issue of this newsletter back in March. We've had a lot of shooting to do this year, which got a little tough here in Western Montana as we had one of the hottest summers on record, with a record number of days into the mid to high 90's. Still, we managed to get it done, doing all of our shooting early in the morning, when temperatures were right at 50 degrees. Generally, we would get in about two hours of shooting before the temperature topped 65 - and that's when we would load up and head back to the office.<br />
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We had two new rifles to wring out, the .50 Traditions <b>VORTEK StrikerFire</b> and the .50 <b>Redemption</b> from LHR Sporting Arms - and through summer and early fall we managed to put about 500 rounds through each. Our early report on the <b>Redemption</b> can be found at <a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/mlrifle8.html">http://www.namlhunt.com/mlrifle8.html</a> . And our first report on the <b>VORTEK StrikerFire</b> can be found at <a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/mlrifle9.html">http://www.namlhunt.com/mlrifle9.html</a> . That's the <b>VORTEK StrikerFire</b> in the photo above right.<br />
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Deer and elk hunting seasons have been underway here in Montana for about three weeks, and I've gotten in 9 days of hunting - passing on three whitetail bucks. Two were small 4x4's, and one was an equally small 5x5. All had, at most, 14 inch spreads. So far, I've seen just one bull elk...headed up a ridge almost two miles away in the last 15 minutes of daylight. I put in two more days on that ridge and never saw him again. Early next week, a hunting partner and I are headed over to the Missouri Breaks to spend 7 or 8 days hunting big mule deer and river-bottom whitetails. Hopefully I'll be able to share the details of a successful hunt on the <b>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b> website before the end of the year. In addition to hunting deer, I also plan to do some fall turkey hunting...and busting a few pheasants with a muzzleloading shotgun.<br />
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The website has grown...a lot...since last year. In fact, as this is written, this year we've added 61 new pages...and intend to add 4 more to the 2013 Article-Report menu before the end of the year. Between now and the first of the year, we're also working to upscale the look of the site a bit as well. To help the nearly 150 or so pages currently found at <a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/">www.namlhunt.com</a> to download quicker, we're also making the navigation of the site less cluttered by publishing a series of navigation pages, eliminating the huge drop down link menu that often took 20 or 30 seconds to download. Here's a look at how we've simplified the 2013 Article-Report page -<br />
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The 2012 Article-Report menu has already been re-constructed in the same manner, and before January 1, 2014 the 2011 article and report menu will receive the same treatment.<br />
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If you've spent much time on the website over the past couple of months, then you've surely noticed that we are providing more coverage for the older style traditional muzzleloaders. Our goal is to ALWAYS keep on providing the same great coverage of modern muzzleloading as we have in the past, and to expand our coverage of the traditional side of our sport. Muzzleloading at all levels has gotten way too fragmented. There is still way to much bickering between modern minded muzzleloading hunters and purist traditional muzzleloading hunters. Here at <b>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b>...muzzleloading is muzzleloading - and we will represent both sides of the sport.<br />
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Our industry also needs to do some serious organizing. As a rule, most muzzleloader oriented companies are now doing little to nothing to promote and build muzzleloader hunting opportunities. Here's a look at that problem...and how the muzzleloading industry needs to model itself after the archery industry...or we just might begin losing way too many muzzleloader hunting opportunities -<br />
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If you are successful in your hunts this fall and winter, send us a few photos and details of your hunts so we can share them with others. Traffic on the <b>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b> website has gone through the roof. For the 12 month period from November 1, 2012 to October 31, 2013, the website was called upon 3,057,315 times by the muzzleloading hunters of North America - 419,766 times in October alone.<br />
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Thank you for helping make the site <b>Today's No. 1 Source For Muzzleloader Hunting Information</b>. - <b>Toby Bridges, NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A Petition has been filed to legalize <b>Blackhorn 209</b> in Nevada. The State of Nevada is the ONLY state to ban the use of this modern top-performing muzzleloader hunting propellant by name. Take a few minutes to send the Nevada Wildlife Commission a message - that muzzleloading hunters need to make those decisions...not a board made up of affluent residents appointed by the Governor who do not hunt with a muzzleloader...or who, very likely, have never even shot a muzzleloader. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Legalization of the powder will be a topic of discussion at the December 6th commission meeting. If you have not already, send an e-mail in support of this black powder substitute. For more details and a link and an e-mail address where you can comment - <strong><a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/blackhorn209-10.html" title="">Click Here</a></strong>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The State of Nevada is the ONLY state to ban the use of this modern top-performing muzzleloader hunting propellant by name. Take a few minutes to send the Nevada Wildlife Commission a message - that muzzleloading hunters need to make those decisions...not a board made up of affluent residents who do not hunt with a muzzleloader...or who, very likely, have never even shot a muzzleloader. For more details and where to send your e-mail, go to the following link...</span><br />
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Through the remainder of 2013, and all of 2014, it is the goal of <strong>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</strong> to publish at least one traditionally oriented muzzleloader hunting article each and every month. A September feature on hunting small game with small bore rifles is a good look at how the website will present the traditional side of this old shooting sport. That article can be found found at the following link - <br />
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Another traditional muzzleloader hunting feature will also lead the menu of October articles and reports. That article shares the challenges of shooting and hunting with flintlock smoothbore muskets and Indian Trade Guns. It shares a deer hunt with a bit of muzzleloading history - the very first of the North Star Trade Guns ever produced - plus takes a look at the tremendous variety of smooth-bored long arms produced through the ages...and the modern reproductions of quite a few of those models.<br />
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Every <strong>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</strong> traditional muzzleloading article will be a combination of muzzleloading history and personal <strong><em>"hands on"</em></strong> experience.<br />
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The host of this website, Toby Bridges, has often been accused of being <strong><em>"Anti Traditional Muzzleloading"</em></strong>, due to the great amount of coverage given to today's modern in-line rifles and top performing loads. Nothing could be farther from the truth.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRRIzD2toODrgeeTUKhYYHMQ0XIGFntEbJ71eFzNm2gwm4Cvijh7iNKvKd_-_rNdms2fji53vW0l0S8_e-Tsrb5D4RlFeIKNcYuEJlEUla2gaX_J93tVdicbT-1PLdWWtb8mzXywM0uA/s1600/Custom+ML+Rifles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRRIzD2toODrgeeTUKhYYHMQ0XIGFntEbJ71eFzNm2gwm4Cvijh7iNKvKd_-_rNdms2fji53vW0l0S8_e-Tsrb5D4RlFeIKNcYuEJlEUla2gaX_J93tVdicbT-1PLdWWtb8mzXywM0uA/s320/Custom+ML+Rifles.jpg" width="253" /></a> Bridges has written hundreds of magazine articles on traditional rifles, and has thoroughly covered those guns in 10 books he's written on muzzleloading - including the book shown at left - <strong><em>"Custom Muzzleloading Rifles"</em></strong>, published by Stackpole Books in 1986...which was also the first year he shot and hunted with a Knight <strong>MK-85</strong> in-line ignition rifle.<br />
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He is as experienced and knowledgeable about the older style front-loaded rifles as anyone in the World - and is also considered the top authority on loading...shooting...and hunting with today's modern in-line muzzleloading rifles. He enjoys playing both sides of the muzzleloader hunting game.<br />
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Bridges himself has built several dozen traditionally styled <strong><em>"custom"</em></strong> muzzleloading rifles - including the two fine rifles shown on the cover of this book. One was a big .54 caliber <strong>Hawken</strong> rifle built to handle massive 120-grain powder charges behind a patched round ball, the other a short and slender lightweight full-stocked .45 caliber <strong>Kentucky</strong> rifle for his 9-year-old daughter.<br />
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Two articles already slated are <strong><em>"Loading & Shooting The Traditional Muzzle-Loaded Shotgun"</em></strong>, which will primarily cover older style <strong><em>"non-choked"</em></strong> scatterguns, and another article that's a look at <strong><em>"The Old Masters"</em></strong>, which will share the gunmakers of the past...and the early history of muzzleloading in America.<br />
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Through 2014, the website will also work in a few reviews of several traditional reproduction rifles that are currently being offered, perhaps spotlight a present day custom riflemaker or two, report on accessories for the older style muzzle-loaded guns, and we'll share some loading tips for achieving best accuracy and game taking performance. On this website, it is the ability of any muzzleloader and load to take game that is given priority.<br />
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The website started life as <strong><em>"High Performance Muzzleloading"</em></strong> back in 2003. By 2006, it became very evident that many out dated and backward hunting regulations were hampering the continued growth of muzzleloader hunting in the U.S. - so that year the name of the website was changed to <strong>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</strong>. Since then, the site's efforts have been very influential in getting many of those non-serving regulations changed.<br />
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It has been the modern side of the muzzleloading industry which has supported the fight to liberalize muzzleloader hunting regulations - so all can enjoy and participate in the muzzleloader hunting seasons. The fact is, close to 90-percent of all muzzleloading hunters today hunt with the modern in-line rifles and loads. That's why the coverage of muzzleloading on the website has swung so heavily in that direction. What the website hopes to accomplish through stepped up coverage of traditional muzzleloading guns and hunting with them is to share the enjoyment and challenge of that side of our sport - to encourage more of the 3- to 3 1/2-million muzzleloading hunters in this country to use traditional muzzleloading equipment for at least some of their muzzleloader hunting. - <strong>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING </strong><br />
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There are several different riflescopes now on the market which feature a reticle having multiple cross-bars, cross-plexes, cross-hairs or circles, offering built-in holdover for shooting at longer ranges...well, long range for a muzzleloader anyway. Do they work? Most certainly, but to fully benefit from using such a scope, today's muzzleloading hunter needs to know a thing or two about setting up a rifle and load in order to tap the full benefit of such optics for today's top performing muzzleloading big game rifles.<br />
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Here, we will be using the <strong>TB-ML</strong> muzzleloader scope from Hi-Lux Optics to provide pointers which will allow the muzzleloading hunter to sight in the primary crosshair at 100 yards with an accurate combination of powder...charge...sabot...bullet...and primer...then rely on three lower cross-bar plexes for placing shots at 200...225...and 250 yards. The reason why we've chosen this scope is that the <strong>TB-ML</strong> model was developed out of all the shooting conducted for all of the information packed muzzleloader performance articles and reports that are published on the <strong>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</strong> website. We know that the locations of the longer range plexes were not determined through calculation...but rather through placing thousands of rounds downrange... because we did that shooting.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR4bJoNVbeq5wWxZf684aaZvsEQEOh3jp9fp9HF5ZOu62h9FnC4JEG9b8PshLT7moUAf1fzoPUmtRjR8jXl5kXv3itaOSO2pjXA02Qg8h5O9OlG9wtJy7FjW2RC_5EQarxHYp3U1hTIg/s1600/TBMLReticle.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR4bJoNVbeq5wWxZf684aaZvsEQEOh3jp9fp9HF5ZOu62h9FnC4JEG9b8PshLT7moUAf1fzoPUmtRjR8jXl5kXv3itaOSO2pjXA02Qg8h5O9OlG9wtJy7FjW2RC_5EQarxHYp3U1hTIg/s320/TBMLReticle.png" width="320" /></a><br />
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Take a look at the <strong>TB-ML</strong> reticle in the drawing at right. Note the three shorter cross-bars below the center crosshair. The locations of these <strong><em>"aiming points"</em></strong> were determined more by velocity and bullet ballistic coefficient than any other factors. The reticle was developed using a .50 caliber rifle loaded to get a saboted 250- to 300-grain bullet with a .210 to .250 b.c. bullet out of the muzzle at between 1,925 f.p.s. and 2,000 f.p.s. If you are saying to yourself that such a wide range of bullets and velocities cannot all print <strong><em>"on"</em></strong> exactly the same at all these ranges...you are absolutely right. But, for hunting, they don't have to.<br />
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The rifle shown in the photo at the top of this post actually belongs to a very good friend, and this summer (2013) I tweaked his load and scope to make it a deadly 250-yard big game rifle. However, it is exactly like one of the rifles I now tend to shoot more often than any other - the .50 caliber Traditions <strong>VORTEK</strong> model. And like all four of my <strong>VORTEK</strong> test rifles, this one is also topped with one of the Hi-Lux Optics 3-9x40mm multi-reticle <strong>TB-ML</strong> muzzleloader hunting scopes. The load it tends to like more than any other is 110-grains of <strong>Blackhorn 209</strong> behind the saboted 300-grain <strong>Scorpion PT Gold</strong> bullet and black <strong>Crush Rib Sabot</strong>, both produced by Harvester Muzzleloading. At the muzzle of this 28-inch barreled No. 209 primer ignition in-line rifle, the load is good for 1,952 f.p.s., generating 2,535 foot-pounds of energy. On a really good day, when conditions are ideal, and the shooter is up to it, the rifle and load will often punch a great sub 1/2-inch cluster at 100 yards, such as that shown here.<br />
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More typically, the groups I shoot are more like 1 1/4- to 1 1/2 inches, measured center-to-center. While little things like 20 to 30 degree warmer or colder temperatures...shooting at 2,000 to 3,000 feet different elevation...or say a change of the humidity by 30- or 40-percent can cause the exact point of impact to shift a 1/4 to 1/2 inch from day to day, the fact remains that such accuracy will still take any big game animal with a center chest cavity hold at 100 yards.<br />
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Through the course of a year's worth of test shooting, I punch a lot of standard paper targets...and often get a little bored. One enjoyable way to get in some beneficial shooting, especially when shooting with a multi-reticle scope, is to play around with cardboard cut outs that simulate somewhat life size shooting at game. The above piece of cardboard is roughly 18 to 19 inches from top of what would be the back to bottom of the chest cavity. It also measures right at 40 inches in length - relatively closely simulating the body size of a whitetail buck.<br />
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That 10" diameter paper plate also roughly simulates the so-called <strong><em>"kill zone"</em></strong> of a whitetail. In other words, any reliable bullet design that can be put into this area with <strong>AT LEAST 800 F.P.E.</strong>, and which is capable of transferring that energy to the target, will cleanly bring down a mature whitetail or mule deer buck. Keeping hits in that <strong><em>"zone"</em></strong> is the key...and this is where the multi-reticle muzzleloader scopes can be key to being successful.<br />
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The 9 shots inside the kill zone shown on the cardboard silhouette at right include 3 shots at 200 yards (3.1 inch spread)...3 shots at 225 yards (3.6 inch spread)...and 3 shots at 250 yards (4.7 inch spread). The proper hold-over cross-bar reticle of the Hi-Lux <strong>TB-ML</strong> scope was used at each range...and the three overlapping groups have an extreme spread of 6 inches (center-to-center). <br />
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All 9 of these shots would have effectively put down a 200+ pound buck. At 250 yards, a 300-grain <strong>Scorpion PT Gold</strong> bullet (.250 b.c.), that left the muzzle at 1,952 f.p.s., would still be flying at around 1,300 f.p.s. at that distance, and would hit with 1,125 foot-pounds of retained energy.<br />
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The 260- and 300-grain <strong>Scorpion PT Gold</strong> bullets were the bullets shot most during the development and refinement of the <strong>TB-ML</strong> scope, shooting 110 grains of <strong>FFFg Triple Seven</strong>. The charge got the 260-grain .220 b.c. bullet out of the muzzle of a 27-inch barreled Knight <strong>Long Range Hunter</strong> model at 2,018 f.p.s., and with the rifle sighted 1-inch high at 100 yards, then using the 200-yard cross-bar would print right at 2 inches high at that distance. The same rifle, loaded with 110-grains of <strong>FFFg Triple Seven</strong> and the .250 b.c. 300-grain <strong>Scorpion PT Gold</strong> was good for 1,909 f.p.s. at the muzzle. Again, sighted 1-inch high at 100 yards, then using the 200-yard cross-bar reticle, at 200 yards the heavier and slower bullet would print on the average 1 inch below point of aim. <br />
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Due to the lower b.c. of the lighter 260-grain bullet, somewhere between 150 and 200 yards, it begins to slow faster than the higher b.c. 300-grain polymer-tipped spire-point. Using the 225 yard cross-bar at 225 yards, the 260-grain <strong>Scorpion PT Gold</strong> will print pretty much <strong><em>"on",</em></strong> while the 300-grain version of the same bullet prints about an inch high. Out at 250 yards, the 260-grain bullet hits the target around 2 1/2 inches below point of aim - the 300-grain bullet averages nearly 2 inches above point of aim. Still, when it comes to maintaining <strong><em>"minute-of-whitetail"</em></strong>, all of this is a moot point. On more than one occasion I have conducted similar tests, shooting three shots at each range (using the proper cross-bar) with each bullet (with rifles sighted to print 1 inch high at 100 yards), and the extreme spread of all 18 shots rarely opens to more than 6 inches.<br />
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With a center chest cavity hold on deer sized game every one of these shots printed inside the <strong><em>"kill zone"</em></strong>, and would have taken game. Since developing the <strong>TB-ML</strong> scope with Hi-Lux Optics, I've only had to rely on the longer range cross-bar reticles a half dozen times to take game for the table. However, I have used the scope on several different rifles to bust some 200 to 250+ yard coyotes, groundhogs, and other predators or vermin. My longest shot was on a coyote that I had lasered at 256 yards. I held just above center, and squeezed off the shot. That yodel dog never knew what hit him.<br />
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The 110-grain charges of <strong>Blackhorn 209</strong> I'm now shooting out of the .50 caliber 28-inch barreled <strong>VORTEK</strong> and the 30-inch barreled <strong>VORTEK Ultra Light LDR</strong> are just a bit faster than the charges of <strong>FFFg Triple Seven</strong> used when determining just where the longer range cross-bars of the <strong>TB-ML</strong> would be located. Even so, that really has not changed the points of impact much once out at 200...225...250 yards. The overlapping three 200, 225, 250 yard groups (9-shots) punched with my friend's Traditions <strong>VORTEK</strong> were shot with a muzzle velocity of 1,952 f.p.s., not 1,909 f.p.s. - and all 9 stayed in the kill zone.<br />
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The multi-reticle muzzleloader scopes do indeed work...and work very well. However, no one should ever shoot at game at a range they have never shot at - no matter what some scope makers may lead you to believe. The best advice anyone could give the muzzleloading hunter that's either new to a multi-reticle muzzleloader scope, or who is anticipating the purchase of one is to get out and shoot often at those longer ranges.<br />
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Another tip is to make absolutely sure that the reticle of the scope is perfectly squared with the bore. If the crosshairs have even the slightest tilt (not square with the bore) to one side or the other, it will result in the shot being off to the side. Sure, the crosshair itself is centered in the scope, and can still be sighted to print dead on at 100 yards. But if the crosshairs are not level with a perfectly leveled rifle, then the 200...225...or 250 yard reticles will be off to one side or the other of the primary crosshair - which should be directly above the cross-bar being used. <br />
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If it's not, then the scope is not squared with the bore. If you already have a multi-reticle scope on your rifle, next time you are aiming with one of the longer range cross-bars, plexes or circles of your scope...note where the crosshair is on the target. If it is slightly off to the right...your shot will go off to the right. If it is off to the left...guess where your shot is going. <br />
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Also, keep in mind that these scopes are still very, very useful when shooting considerably slower loads or much lower ballistic coefficient bullets. While the so-called <strong><em>"200 yard"</em></strong> reticle...or the <strong><em>"225 yard"</em></strong> reticle...or the <strong><em>"250 yard"</em></strong> reticles may not be on <strong>AT THESE DISTANCES</strong>...they will still allow you to hold on at some longer range...and that would be up to you to do plenty of shooting to determine exactly where each prints the load you are hunting with.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By
the end of 2012, traffic on the website topped 1.5 million, and the audience it
reaches just keeps on growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the
past 12 months (April 14, 2012 to April 15, 2013) more than 2,000,000
muzzleloading shooters and hunters have referenced the website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All indications are that by year's end,
muzzleloading hunters in the U.S. and Canada will call upon </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/">www.namlhunt.com</a></span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 2.5 million times.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Why
the phenomenal growth in the number of muzzleloading hunters turning to the
site?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answer is pretty easy, they
cannot find anywhere else a wider range of muzzleloader performance information
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"how
to"</i></b> muzzleloading accuracy tips, load data, technical information,
history, or updated details on the latest muzzleloader hunting legislation,
which can and will dictate what you can or cannot hunt with during the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Muzzleloader Seasons</b>, than what is now
published on this one website.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Currently,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b>
is fighting an extremely non-serving muzzleloader hunting regulation in the
State of Nevada, which makes it illegal for the modern day muzzleloading hunter
to use one of the most popular muzzleloader hunting powders available today - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackhorn 209</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more on this, copy and paste this link - </span><br />
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being first published on the internet in 2003, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NORTH AMERICAN<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>MUZZLELOADER
HUNTING</b> has done more than the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NATIONAL
RIFLE ASSOCIATION </b>and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NATIONAL
MUZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">combined</i></b> to get such non-serving and
often extremely discriminatory muzzleloader hunting regulations changed in
order to allow <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ALL</b> muzzleloading
hunters to enjoy our sport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since 2006,
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of riflescopes during the muzzleloader hunting seasons in Georgia, Kansas,
Nebraska and Wisconsin...for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ALL</b>
muzzleloading hunters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 11 other
states which still proclaim it is illegal to use a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"riflescope"</i></b>
during such seasons, the federal government has since also mandated that these
states <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MUST</b> make special provisions
for sight impaired muzzleloading hunters to use a scope - thanks to the efforts
of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
are still a few other non-serving muzzleloader hunting regulations on the books
in several other states, which we fully intend to keep on tackling.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
late summer 2011, the website went through a complete overhaul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beginning in late July of that year, we
eliminated all older articles and reports...and started out with a clean
slate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since then, we've built and
published more than<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>100 information
packed and well illustrated pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
newsletter is being put together and distributed in mid April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far this year, we've added 18 Feature
Articles/Reports, plus added to the menu links to shorter articles, reports or
news we've published on the four affiliated muzzleloader hunting blogs we also
host.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b> also has its own <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Facebook</b> page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
four more recent (April) articles and reports include a new page that looks at
how <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackhorn 209</b> actually produces
its best accuracy when the bore is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NOT</b>
wiped between shots at...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/blackhorn209-4.html">http://www.namlhunt.com/blackhorn209-4.html</a></span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> ) ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> A feature written by our new Associate Editor Dr. Jim Clary,
which takes a look at the benefits of the Harvester Muzzleloading <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Crush Rib Sabot"</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Scorpion PT Gold</b> bullet at...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">( </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/mlperformance.html">http://www.namlhunt.com/mlperformance.html</a></span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> ) ...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> A look back at one of the most widely used saboted bullets of
the 1990's - the 300-grain Hornady .452" diameter <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">XTP</b> hollow-point at...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/mlbullets11.html">http://www.namlhunt.com/mlbullets11.html</a></span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> )...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> And how today's muzzleloading hunter can best determine his
or her maximum effective range at...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/mlmaxrange.html">http://www.namlhunt.com/mlmaxrange.html</a></span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> ). </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our
goal for 2013 has been to add another 50 pages to the website by the time 2014
rolls around, and we're right on target to do just that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In May, we plan to add several more great feature
articles or reports.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0rzsyLvNWiVlMZnJSIcxio0Irt1_QX4OwoDTRzjLwMYkyCVHai_71neg9HeAu2XS_MA0ezXreqKS20tMaec2qjAXg3SfFOHFqqu1SM5jSPESyxLf9gYuZpS7SJYgqeYsWd0TZ600-A/s1600/Scoped_Whitworth_FL+-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0rzsyLvNWiVlMZnJSIcxio0Irt1_QX4OwoDTRzjLwMYkyCVHai_71neg9HeAu2XS_MA0ezXreqKS20tMaec2qjAXg3SfFOHFqqu1SM5jSPESyxLf9gYuZpS7SJYgqeYsWd0TZ600-A/s320/Scoped_Whitworth_FL+-2.jpg" width="227" /></a></div>
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use of a riflescope on a muzzleloader has been that such optics were not used
on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"original"</i></b>
muzzleloaders - which is far from the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Muzzleloading target shooter and hunter James R. Chapman is often
credited for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"inventing"</i></b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"perfecting"</i></b> such telescopic
sights, about 1840.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wrote about such
sights in his book, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"The Improved
American Rifle"</b> - written in 1844 and published in 1848.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those early <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"riflescopes"</i></b>
were made much like a pair of eyeglasses - for the individual shooters' eye
sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quite a few of the finest rifle
makers of the 1840's and 1850's <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also
built these early telescopic rifle sights - with the help of a local
optometrist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
May feature to be published on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NORTH
AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b> website will take a good look at how the
riflescope was developed hand-in-hand with the long range bullet rifles of the
1840's...leading to the establishment of the first ever riflescope
manufacturing facility in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1855 by William Malcolm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The accompanying photo shows a modern made
copy of a circa 1855 Malcolm scope, mounted on a circa 1855 styled hexagonal
bore .451 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Whitworth</b> long-range
rifle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scope has been reproduced by
Leatherwood/Hi-Lux Optics.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
other feature scheduled for May will compare the long range trajectories of a
dozen or so currently popular saboted muzzleloading bullets for the .50 caliber
in-line rifles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Check back to see if we
include the saboted bullet you currently hunt with, or at least a bullet with a
very similar ballistic coefficient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Several new product test reports will also be featured through the
month.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Likewise,
we plan to publish from 3 to 5 information packed Feature Articles/Reports each
and every month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the majority of
the materials presented on the website will continue to cater to the 90+
percent of today's muzzleloading hunters who have turned to the modern in-line
rifles, we will also include a number of pages devoted to the muzzle-loaded
hunting rifles and loads of the past.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</b>
will continue to be the leading source for everything that is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Muzzleloader Hunting</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go to the site at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #4f81bd; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/">www.namlhunt.com</a></span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> and save it as a favorite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Toby Bridges, NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING </b></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #740000; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Watch For The Summer-Fall 2013 NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING
Newsletter About October 15th.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING is a free site for visitors,
no matter whose rifle, scope, powder, sabot or bullet they may load...shoot
...and hunt with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now, a small
handful of sponsors help keep this site on the internet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For continued growth and to insure the site
stays on the internet, NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING needs a few more
members of the muzzleloading industry or the hunting industry in general to pitch
in and help cover the cost of building and maintaining this website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muzzleloader hunting is hunting, and more
muzzleloading hunters keep up with their sport right here than anywhere else. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-22310581919603580992013-03-28T08:10:00.000-07:002013-03-28T08:10:08.344-07:00World's Best Deer Camp Chili!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The following link will take you to what it takes to turn out a first rate gourmet chili. It's been a hit in every deer camp I've brewed a batch...and a favorite of family and friends. If there's a special large get together in your future...here's a meal that will make it just that much more special.<br />
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<a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/wildharvest2.html"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.namlhunt.com/wildharvest2.html</span></a> <br />
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If you have some special ingredients that make your chili special as well, please take a minute or two and share with us in a comment.<br />
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Toby Bridges,<br />
NORTH AMERICAN<br />
MUZZLELOADER HUNTINGAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-44643925177279321512013-03-20T16:16:00.006-07:002013-03-20T16:16:56.684-07:00Modern In-Line Muzzleloading Pioneer William "Tony" Knight Dies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">December 21, 1945 - March 18, 2013</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">William "Tony" Knight passed away on March 18, 2013. The world of muzzleloading has lost one of its greatest contributors, and he will be sadly missed by all who truly knew him. He was one of the greatest people I've known in my lifetime, and at one time my dearest and closest friend. My hope is that in spirit he's up there still running the hills and hollers of northern Missouri, chasing those big whitetails and long bearded gobblers...with his favorite dog Ginger at his side. Let us never forget him. - <strong>Toby Bridges, NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</strong> has published a tribute to Tony Knight,,,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Go To <a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/mltribute.html">http://www.namlhunt.com/mltribute.html</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-65876661083468790292013-02-28T09:21:00.002-08:002014-06-05T06:50:34.638-07:00Hunting With The .451 Caliber Hexagonal Bore Whitworth Rifle<br />
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One of my favorite rifles to take to the range five or six times a year is the big .451 caliber reproduction of the hexagonal bore <strong>Whitworth</strong> rifle shown in the photo above. When summer temperatures soar into the upper 80's and 90's in Western Montana, and it gets just too hot to do a lot of shooting with plastic saboted bullets, that's when I pull out the <strong>Whitworth</strong> rifle. But, first I have to make up a batch of bullets. And while it does take a while, it's not difficult.<br />
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The bullet starts out as a standard round sided cylindrical 500-grain cast bullet - produced with the Lee Precision 459-500-3R bullet mold. The bullet, as cast, is right at .459" in diameter (for loading into the big .45 caliber black powder cartridges, i.e. .45-70, .45-90, etc.). <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2THXsiGvwl9PVjfcQcWmCARE4Xs58BJxN2vhInBOKo9JzWMg_YBTqvY2kd-TdhJh4wHjF2uJ43GDOEtzQU-lDsRH7uHoHpN0Nlj82vT95NWNU2Ee8_wZ0UPHFs-uKrm7OnfIi4fCLw/s1600/Whitworth+Bullets+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2THXsiGvwl9PVjfcQcWmCARE4Xs58BJxN2vhInBOKo9JzWMg_YBTqvY2kd-TdhJh4wHjF2uJ43GDOEtzQU-lDsRH7uHoHpN0Nlj82vT95NWNU2Ee8_wZ0UPHFs-uKrm7OnfIi4fCLw/s320/Whitworth+Bullets+001.jpg" height="271" width="320" /></a> Next, I thread a custom built swaging die into my cartridge reloading press...feed the long spitzer shaped nose of the soft pure lead bullet into the die from the bottom...bring up the ram of the press and align an extension with the bottom of the bullet...and push the bullet through the swaging die. What pops out the top is a "somewhat" hexagonal bullet that measures .448" across from hexagonal flat to hexagonal flat. The die was formed with the same turn-in-21 inches pitch found in the hexagonal bore of the rifle. (No "rifling"...instead, the bore is formed hexagonal and turns with a 1-in-21 inches rate of twist.)<br />
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<strong>Shown Above - The 500 grain cast Lee bullet as from the mold, right. The same bullet swaged, center. The 580-grain Whitworth bullet offered by Dixie Gun Works, left.</strong><br />
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The undersized bullet still makes some contact with bore...offering just a little resistance. I have shot them as they are formed, but have easily gotten far superior accuracy when the bullet is wrapped with two layers of Alox lubed cotton-based paper. The fit is a little tight, but the paper wrapped base of the bullet can still be worked into the bore, then using a short starter that's been shaped to fit down over the nose of the bullet, a healthy whack gets the paper wrapped bullet into the bore. It's then easily pushed down the bore with the <strong>Whitworth's</strong> steel ramrod to seat on the powder charge.<br />
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My particular <strong>Whitworth</strong> copy came from Dixie Gun Works, back in 2005. The rifle is still offered, and sells for $1,300. For more on the rifle, go to -<br />
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<a href="http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=922"><strong>http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=922</strong></a><br />
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Dixie Gun Works recommends loading 60-grains of FFFg behind the big 580-grain hex-shaped lead round nosed bullet they offer. My first shooting was done with these bullets, and the rifle shot okay with the 1.340" long projectiles...but they loaded extremely tight. That's when I had a friend, who is one heck of a machinist, produce the hex swaging die for me. (Before anyone writes and inquires, he let me know in no uncertain terms that the die I have was the first...and last such die he would ever produce.)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1wejz_prViB_TbcJpsIObArT7d_Sz1Yky9Auo2xaG8j_ZD3Ytf3XdysE6eib947d9-uMt0JF_5h9fVWCjK8Tkmdtm8IP_rMQDp3OrXXUIyPSzsgao91vgEJd8UkG0Ouj_V5vvF8qTSA/s1600/125+BH209+-+275+Parker+BE+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1wejz_prViB_TbcJpsIObArT7d_Sz1Yky9Auo2xaG8j_ZD3Ytf3XdysE6eib947d9-uMt0JF_5h9fVWCjK8Tkmdtm8IP_rMQDp3OrXXUIyPSzsgao91vgEJd8UkG0Ouj_V5vvF8qTSA/s320/125+BH209+-+275+Parker+BE+001.jpg" height="317" width="320" /></a> At first, I swaged the Dixie bullets, and found I could print 3 to 4 inch 200 yard groups. Anyway, I could after I installed one of the superb Hi-Lux Optics recreation of a circa 1855 <strong>Wm. Malcolm</strong> 6x long telescopic rifle sights (as they were known back then). My rifle came into it's own when I started casting the lighter, but slightly longer 1.360" long Lee 500-grain bullet, then running it through the swaging die and wrapping the bullets with lubed paper. My favored charge has been 80 grains of GOEX FFFg black powder. The rifle and load have printed a few very impressive 2- to 2 1/2-inch 200 yard groups. At the muzzle, the big 500-grain bullet exits at 1,326 f.p.s. - generating 1,945 foot pounds of energy. Out at 200 yards, it is still good for 1,053 f.p.s. and 1,231 f.p.e..<br />
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<strong>Photo At Right - Best 200 yard Whitworth group shot, so far, with swaged Lee bullet.</strong><br />
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Back when I first got the rifle, still shooting with the open sights, I took a couple of does with the Dixie bullet, both at about 50 yards. Last year, I made up my mind that I was going to put something down with the <strong>Whitworth</strong> out at about 200 yards. One area I planned to hunt in Montana (out on the plains) allowed the purchase of up to 7 doe tags, so I purchased several just to put some meat in the freezer...and to take one at longer range (200 yards) with the .451<strong> Whitworth</strong>.<br />
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The second evening in camp, I carried two rifles out to a small portable camouflaged blind I had set up at the edge of a river-bottom alfalfa field. I packed my .50 Traditions <strong>VORTEK Ultra Light LDR</strong> just in case nothing walked to within 200 yards of the blind...and I took the <strong>Whitworth</strong> in order to take a doe that did get within 200 yards of the big and heavy bullet shooting rifle.<br />
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About an hour and a half before sunset, close to 40 whitetails worked out into the field, including a small 4x4 buck, but I had already filled my buck tag on the first morning of the hunt. I had forgotten my laser range finder in the pack I had worn all morning while looking for deer in the hills behind camp. I rested the Whitworth on one of the <strong>Bog Pod CLD</strong>-3 collapsible tripod rests, and sighted through the Hi-Lux <strong>Malcolm</strong> scope. The sun had already dropped behind a high ridge to the West, but I could still see the multiple targets in front of me very clearly.<br />
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<strong>Photo Above Left - The adjustable rear mount of the Hi-Lux Optics 6x Malcolm scope can be quickly moved from one yardage setting to another - once those settings are known.</strong><br />
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When I walked out to the deer, I saw why it had gone down so quickly. The big 500-grain cast & swaged Lee bullet had caught the deer only about two inches down from the top of the back. That big chunk of lead had blown out about four inches of backbone...and unfortunately ruined about six inches of backstrap.<br />
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Mid day the following day, I walked out to where I had field dressed the deer, and took a laser reading on the front of the blind - 172 yards. Back at camp, I set up a portable target board I had brought along...at 172 yards...and took a shot from the <strong>Bog Pod</strong> rest. The hole was right at six inches above point of aim. Then, I moved back 26 more yards, and took a shot from exactly 200 yards, for which the scope was set, and the hole in the target was right at one inch above point of aim - pretty much how it had been sighted. It was clear that with the doe standing just 28 yards closer, the trajectory of that big bullet was close to six inches higher.<br />
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This coming summer, I'll do a good deal of shooting to determine the 300-yard setting for the <strong>Malcolm</strong> scope...and will likewise do some shooting with the .451 <strong>Whitworth</strong> at 225...250...and 275 yards. My goal for this fall is to fill one of those doe tags with the <strong>Whitworth</strong> at 300 yards. Rest assured, I'll never forget my range finder again. - <strong>Toby Bridges, NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</strong> <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-6520880677572526862013-02-27T17:37:00.001-08:002013-02-27T17:37:30.980-08:00Iowa Hunter Attributes 242-Yard Shot On A Whitetail Buck To Lot's Practice On The Range And Precision Placement Of Long Range Reticles Of His Scope!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><em>"As the smoke rolled out over the field the deer ran at top speed for cover. He made it about 40 yards before crashing in the open field. The Barnes bullet had found its way to within 2 inches of my aim. The extra hold offs in the scope are precise and unbelievable."</em></strong><br />
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Iowa resident Mike Ross, hunting the late muzzleloader season this past January, pulled off a great 242-yard off-hand shot with his Knight .50 caliber Long Range Hunter, taking a nice buck with a single bullet centered through the chest cavity. He attributed the success of that shot to spending a lot of time on the range with the rifle and the Hi-Lux Optics multi-reticle TB-ML scope - and to the precise placement of those reticles in the scope.<br />
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Here's a link to his story of the hunt.<br />
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<a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/mladventure2.html"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.namlhunt.com/mladventure2.html</span></a> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-2817622858030430972013-02-20T13:55:00.003-08:002013-02-20T14:53:39.691-08:00Hot New Loads For The 260- And 300-Grain Scorpion PT Gold Out Of The Traditions VORTEK Ultra Light LDR <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's a look at a hot new load for the Traditions .50 VORTEK Ultra Light LDR that's knocking right on the 2,200 f.p.s. door, shooting 130 grains of Blackhorn 209 and the Harvester Muzzleloading saboted 260-grain Scorpion PT Gold polymer-tipped spire-point. The recoil of the load is very tolerable...and the accuracy is outstanding!<br />
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<a href="http://traditionsmlhunt.blogspot.com/2013/02/hot-new-loads-for-50-vortek-rifle.html">http://traditionsmlhunt.blogspot.com/2013/02/hot-new-loads-for-50-vortek-rifle.html</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-71633020940339698452013-02-10T07:40:00.001-08:002013-02-10T07:40:55.139-08:00Nevada Department of Wildlife Ban Of Popular Muzzleloader Hunting Powder Is Discriminatory - And Likely Illegal!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> During the
summer of 2011, the Nevada Department of Wildlife took away the right for
muzzleloading hunters in the state to use a modern formulated propellant that
not only makes loading and shooting a rifle of muzzle-loaded design less tedious
and more reliable, but safer as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That new powder is being marketed under the brand name <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Blackhorn 209</b>, by Western Powders of
Miles City, MT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In July of 2011, NDOW sent a notice
to all hunters who had drawn a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"muzzleloader
only"</i></b> Nevada big game tag, announcing, </span></span><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">"The department has recently
received numerous questions regarding the use of Blackhorn 209 during the
muzzle-loading only season. Per <u>NAC 503.142 (1)</u> only blackpowder or a
blackpowder substitute such as Pyrodex or Triple Seven may be used as a
propellant. The use of smokeless powder is prohibited."<o:p></o:p></span></b></em></div>
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<em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></em><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This warning went on to distinguish that
what separated <b>Blackhorn 209</b> from the other two powders mentioned, <b>Pyrodex</b>
and <b>Triple Seven</b>, was the fact that the newer powder relied on a
nitrocellulose base rather than the carbon base used to produce the other two
black powder substitutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NDOW published
this warning in its August issue of OUTDOOR EDUCATOR as well.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>At the September 2011 Nevada Board
of Wildlife Commissioners Meeting, under the topic issue <b>"Muzzleloader
Black Powder Legal Issues"</b>, Chief Game Warden Robert Buonamici told
the nine-member board that prior to the hunting seasons his Division (Law
Enforcement) had received quite a few calls as to whether or not if <b>Blackhorn
209</b> powder was legal to use during the state's muzzleloader seasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He admitted that his staff did not know, so
researched the issue - first referring back to the adopted regulation code
which prohibited the use of smokeless powder during the muzzleloading hunts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He pointed out to the commissioners that the
U.S. Department of Transportation has designated <b>Blackhorn 209</b> as a
smokeless powder.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The call to outlaw the use of this
powder was made entirely by Chief Buonamici and the NDOW Division of Law
Enforcement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What Buonamici failed to
share with the Board of Wildlife Commissioners was that also sharing the very same
North American and United Nations hazardous materials classification codes (NA3178
and UN0499) which he used to deem <b>Blackhorn 209</b> </span></em><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">"illegal"</span></b></em><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> are all other </span></em><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">"black powder substitutes"</span></b></em><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, including the two </span></em><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">"legal"</span></b></em><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> powders mentioned by name in Nevada's
muzzleloader hunting regulations - <b>Pyrodex</b> and <b>Triple Seven</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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arms"</span></b></em><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> or as </span></em><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">"propellant solid - smokeless"</span></b></em><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Through correspondence with members
of the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners, the NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER
HUNTING Association has been told that the regulation, as it stands, can be
attributed to bad information and bureaucratic status quo within the Nevada
Department of Wildlife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That bad
information came from NDOW's administration, and many of the originators of the
regulation are now gone - including Director Ken Mayer, who has been fired, for
the second time.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></em><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">"Nevada's ban of Blackhorn 209
should make sportsmen question many other non-serving hunting regulations on
the books around the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were
told that to change the regulation in Nevada is a slow process, and that
process would require that a petition first be filed - even though those
serving on the Board of Wildlife Commissioners are now aware that the
regulation was railroaded right through by a biased and agenda driven<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>high ranking individual or a division of
NDOW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strangely, it was done so without
any opposition from the Commission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
legality of how this exceptionally poor and bogus regulation has been allowed
to stand needs to be investigated...and perhaps have its day in court ,"</span></b></em><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> states Toby Bridges, founder of the NORTH
AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING Association.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nevada is the only state to ban the
use of <b>Blackhorn 209</b> powder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
couple of other states, namely New Mexico and Utah, had considered a similar
ban, but realized that since the powder shared the very same federal and
international regulations governing other black powder substitutes, such a ban
would run into tremendous opposition from muzzleloading hunters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Collectively, the modern </span></em><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">"non black powder"</span></b></em><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> muzzleloader propellants are now used by
more than 90-percent of all muzzleloading hunters.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What has made <b>Blackhorn 209</b>
so popular among the fastest growing segment of muzzleloader hunting, those who
have switched to equally modern in-line primer ignition rifle models, is the
cleanliness of the powder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other modern
muzzleloader powders leave a great deal of fouling in the bore, and for best
accuracy that fouling has to be wiped from the bore after each and every
shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The light fouling left behind by
charges of <b>Blackhorn 209</b> does not affect the accuracy of the load.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, many shooters have shot all morning
or afternoon, firing upwards of 50 shots or more, and still maintain great
accuracy without cleaning the bore once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That cleanliness also means that there is a lot less chance of not
getting the projectile properly seated directly in contact with the power
charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Firing a muzzleloader with the
projectile setting an inch or two off the powder charge creates an extremely
dangerous situation.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The new powder is also far less
corrosive than the powders named </span></em><em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">"legal"</span></b></em><em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> in the Nevada regulations, and due to its
nitrocellulose base, <b>Blackhorn 209</b> granules are far more uniform and
result in extremely consistent volume measured charges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This in turn produces the most consistent
accuracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps NDOW's fear of the
powder is that it is too good, allowing the state's muzzleloading hunters to
more easily make a clean and effective harvest of the game being hunted.</span></em></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></em> </div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(On Friday, February 8, 2013 - this <strong>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELODER HUNTING</strong> release was sent to the major media providers in the State of Nevada, as well as to many within the shooting & hunting industry, plus to a large number of those working within the outdoor media. For more on this issue, plus more on the qualities that make Blackhorn 209 extremely popular, and a look at all the uses of nitrocellulose, go to - <a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/blackhorn209-2.html">http://www.namlhunt.com/blackhorn209-2.html</a> .)</span></em></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-38709807675106652642013-02-04T10:03:00.001-08:002013-02-04T10:06:14.047-08:00Nevada Department of Wildlife Bans Blackhorn 209 - NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING Responds! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Following is an e-mail sent to the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners in
regard to the Nevada Department of Wildlife ban on the use of Blackhorn 209
during the muzzleloader only seasons and hunts in that state...
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Dear Nevada Wildlife Commission; </div>
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What does the State of Nevada have against
nitrocellulose...or Blackhorn 209?</div>
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The manner in which the Nevada muzzleloader hunting
regulations attack this powder, by brand name, shows extreme prejudice - and
likely violates interstate commerce laws. The Nevada Wildlife Commission needs
to give all of this very serious thought, and truly question those responsible
for such a stand against a revolutionary new muzzleloader propellant that is now
taking muzzleloader hunting by storm across the country. Should there be any
personal bias involved, it could end in some extremely costly legal
litigation.</div>
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The manner in which the agency and the commission allows
several powders, by brand name, to be used during the muzzleloader only season,
then bans the use of another powder, by brand name, is extremely discriminatory
- especially since the powders, including Blackhorn 209, all share the same
technical classification - as determined by the U.S. Department of
Transportation - and the United Nations. </div>
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Over the past 12 months, the NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER
HUNTING website has had more than 1.7 million visitors, and they are now reading
about how the Nevada Wildlife Commission and the Nevada Department of Wildlife
are wrongly robbing Nevada's muzzleloading hunters of the opportunity to go
afield with a superior muzzleloader propellant. Here's a link to a report
published Sunday, February 3, 2013.</div>
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<a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/blackhorn209-2.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #d52a33;">http://www.namlhunt.com/<wbr></wbr>blackhorn209-2.html</span></span></a> </div>
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I would be very interested in hearing from any of you in
defense of such non-serving muzzleloader hunting legislation. The end of this
week, NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING will issue a release, addressing this
issue, that goes out to much of the media there in Nevada, and to the national
outdoor media and to the shooting & hunting industry.</div>
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Toby Bridges</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-28335924875290266022013-01-19T10:51:00.000-08:002013-01-21T06:50:14.754-08:002013 SHOT Show Did Not Offer Much In The Way Of New Muzzleloader Hunting Innovations As far as anything excitingly new for the muzzleloading hunter, the 2013 SHOT Show was the most lackluster I've attended, and since the first of these shows in January 1979 (St. Louis, MO), I have only missed three.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGL9rPNqJRkGY2xwYQqPY3JTasKLgdtBHaov7fsSdAHturNNhc4GNWMJHGm85lZ7zXnTVq_ip5eAbDW_O8Q9ePZtuoM8DEVWnNWXG7VS2fpjBnKCEWR0mqrSUzmO2NkXACJh09DWT68g/s1600/Traditions+VORTEK+Striker+Fire.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGL9rPNqJRkGY2xwYQqPY3JTasKLgdtBHaov7fsSdAHturNNhc4GNWMJHGm85lZ7zXnTVq_ip5eAbDW_O8Q9ePZtuoM8DEVWnNWXG7VS2fpjBnKCEWR0mqrSUzmO2NkXACJh09DWT68g/s400/Traditions+VORTEK+Striker+Fire.JPG" width="400" /></a> One very shining exception was a brand new rifle being introduced by Traditions Performance Firearms - the .50 caliber <strong>VORTEK StrikerFire</strong>. This is an extremely slick new break-open design, held in this photo by company president Tom Hall. While this new approach eliminates a hammer that protrudes up behind the firing pin of the receiver, it still offers all the convenience of an exposed hammer...but with an added element of safety and even more convenience.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkEyj15ZiApdBQOcbl4k1VnOzCZXAz5V50xKCtEKavP-qr71_ClKCjPZsMjwLX_3by2VK8S3MFdX-3xSCw9flagLon6SYU-wQPuzSvb8cW4TLErA73ElyxhiSkXXPLamfiuYTUasRe-Q/s1600/Traditions+VORTEK+Stroker+Fire+-+3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkEyj15ZiApdBQOcbl4k1VnOzCZXAz5V50xKCtEKavP-qr71_ClKCjPZsMjwLX_3by2VK8S3MFdX-3xSCw9flagLon6SYU-wQPuzSvb8cW4TLErA73ElyxhiSkXXPLamfiuYTUasRe-Q/s320/Traditions+VORTEK+Stroker+Fire+-+3.JPG" width="320" /></a> The internal firing mechanism is <strong><em>"cocked"</em></strong> by pushing the <strong>StikerFire System</strong> button forward with right or left thumb (the rifle is truly ambidextrous). Once cocked, a trigger block safety mounted on the trigger housing allows the rifle to be safely carried until a shot is taken. To <strong><em>"uncock"</em></strong> the rifle, one simply pushes the (silver) release button shown at right. It's that simple. (Opening the action also de-cocks the rifle.) The advantages of this system are a snappier lock time and the ability to mount a scope lower and closer to the axis of the bore, which tends to equate to more consistent accuracy.<br />
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The new 28-inch barreled design weighs in at just 6.25 pounds, and will surely be a dream to carry in the field. We are slated to receive one of the very first test guns in May, and will run a complete report on this before the end of that month. Starting retail price will be $489, for a black synthetic stock with a tapered, fluted and CeraKote finished Magnum Chromoly barrel. The rifle offers other new features as well, which we will fully detail on the <strong>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</strong> website when we publish the test report in May. Don't miss it.<br />
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For updated info on this rifle, go to - <a href="http://www.traditionsfirearms.com/"><strong>www.traditionsfirearms.com</strong></a> <br />
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<strong>IS THE T/C OMEGA ON THE WAY OUT?</strong><br />
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Thompson Center Arms' website still proclaims... <strong>"T/C’s OMEGA™ Will Revolutionize the Way Hunters Think About Muzzleloaders for Years to Come"</strong> ... However, I can't help but wonder if the company is already doing some serious downsizing. The <strong>Omega </strong>was not even displayed at the 2013 SHOT Show.<br />
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In fact, the only models on display were the <strong>Triumph</strong>...the <strong>Impact</strong>...and the <strong>Encore Pro Hunter</strong>. There was nothing that <strong><em>"muzzle-loaded"</em></strong> that was truly new. To put it nicely, T/C's huge booth was mostly void of guns, with easily 90-percent of the display devoted to center-fire rifles. The 2013 SHOT Show was the 35th of the annual <strong><em>"Show of Arms"</em></strong>, and as I pointed out earlier, I've missed just three of the shows. One thing I've noticed in the past has been when a rifle that's loudly touted as one which <strong><em>"Will Revolutionize the Way Hunters Think About Muzzleloaders for Years to Come"</em></strong> is suddenly absent at the SHOT Show, it generally means the model is being phased out.<br />
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Personally, I've found the solid design of the <strong>Omega </strong>to produce the most consistent accuracy of all the T/C in-line designs. If I could shoot and hunt with only one T/C rifle...it would definitely be the <strong>Omega</strong>. I, for one, hope that the ommission of the rifle at the SHOT Show was just an ill thought out mistake.<br />
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We were made privy to a couple of new bullet concepts, which we will be testing and reporting on later in the year. Also, there's a new in-line rifle making operation bringing another innovative break-open inline model, known as the <strong>Redemption</strong>, to the market. Those behind the new venture are primarily former T/C management that either chose not to move from the Rochester, NH area when T/C's Smith & Wesson owners decided to relocate the company to Springfield, MA...or who were downsized out during the move.<br />
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While the company, known as LHR Sporting Arms, was not displaying at this year's SHOT Show, several muzzleloading writers I ran into shared that they would be doing test reports on the new rifle. Prior to the SHOT Show, <strong>NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</strong> also corresponded with the marketing manager of the company, and hopes to bring you a report as well.<br />
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For more on the rifle and the new company, go to - <a href="http://www.lhrsportingarms.com/"><strong>www.lhrsportingarms.com</strong></a> <br />
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It hurts me to say that, with only a few exceptions, the muzzleloading industry has become extremely lame. Right now, less than 20-percent of the companies offering muzzleloader hunting products are keeping the industry alive - the other 80-or so-percent seem to be just along for the ride. - <strong>Toby Bridges, NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING</strong> <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08737107020771110518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192632002254515888.post-57662753779801175592013-01-08T15:51:00.001-08:002013-01-09T08:28:39.479-08:00Looking Into 2013...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I did not spend a lot of time on this blog through 2012. All of my effort was put into rebuilding the NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING website, at <a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/">www.namlhunt.com</a> . Late in July 2011, my former website hosting service (Homestead/Intuit) apparently decided that a muzzleloader hunting website was not appropriate for them...and without any reason or notice simply pulled the plug - losing nearly six years of research and writing. <br />
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As angry as I was at the time, I've now come to realize that they actually did me one huge favor. <br />
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2010 was the all time best year for the website published at <a href="http://www.hpmuzzleloading.com/">www.hpmuzzleloading.com</a>, with some 350,000 users during the course of the year. Fact is, 2011 was on track to slightly top that...until the anti-hunting greenie gang at Homestead shut the site down. August of 2011 was a hectic one for me as I scrambled to find a new, appropriate and better hosting service - which I did with FatCow. The last week of that month and all of September was spent getting a new start under a new and more appropriate web address.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPuZADlZ_2ciRcCuG06DrUqHUnIB_6tnXVWGTsyA-_Au4bpyH63LcA7duikPdfB_AWaoUM_pEm9cX3SX1PjO39pGC-RjpHpxMjHIQnBYtmA9k_8exp-UceKX_ffDw0r9EHcbWkQIbQSA/s1600/Christy+2012+Doe.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPuZADlZ_2ciRcCuG06DrUqHUnIB_6tnXVWGTsyA-_Au4bpyH63LcA7duikPdfB_AWaoUM_pEm9cX3SX1PjO39pGC-RjpHpxMjHIQnBYtmA9k_8exp-UceKX_ffDw0r9EHcbWkQIbQSA/s320/Christy+2012+Doe.JPG" width="320" /></a>It took a couple of months for many of you to find the new site, but once you did, thankfully you kept coming back on a regular basis. I quickly learned that FatCow does a much better job of getting article/report topics published into the internet search engines - and by the end of December 2011, monthly traffic was up around 35,000.<br />
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Well, as we moved into 2012, traffic just kept growing...topping 100,000 for the month of July alone...more than 200,000 in each of October and November...and nearly reaching 300,000 for the month of December. In all, some 74,000 unique visitors used the NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING website 1,553,000+ times during 2012.<br />
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And I would like to thank the folks at Homestead for making that happen. If you had not pulled the plug on the site...it's doubtful that traffic would have topped 400,000 to 450,000.<br />
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What has kept muzzleloading hunters coming back has been the wide range of great muzzleloader hunting articles and reports. All of those newly published pages can be found at - <br />
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<a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/2012-articles-reports.html">http://www.namlhunt.com/2012-articles-reports.html</a> <br />
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We've gotten a great start on the 2013 Articles & Reports menu as well. In just the first week of this new year, three new pages have been published...with one or two more scheduled for the month of January. In all last year, we added 50 new pages. We really are not planning to top that number this year...but we do expect to bring you the same great variety of muzzleloader hunting topics through the coming year. Here's a look at the start of the new lineup - <br />
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<a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/2013-articles-reports.html">http://www.namlhunt.com/2013-articles-reports.html</a> <br />
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One of our primary goals this year is to better utilize this blog...to get many of you sharing information right here. <br />
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It's going to be a great year...visit us often...here and on the website.<br />
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Toby Bridges<br />
NORTH AMERICAN <br />
MUZZLELOADER HUNTING<br />
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<a href="http://www.namlhunt.com/">www.namlhunt.com</a> <br />
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