Here is something new for NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING followers, a twice yearly Newsletter. On or about April 15th each year, we will now distribute and publish our Winter-Spring Newsletter. Then on or about October 15th, we'll distribute and publish our Summer-Fall Newsletter.
The NORTH
AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING website has now become America's No. 1 Source For Muzzleloader Hunting Information.
By
the end of 2012, traffic on the website topped 1.5 million, and the audience it
reaches just keeps on growing. 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. All indications are that by year's end,
muzzleloading hunters in the U.S. and Canada will call upon www.namlhunt.com 2.5 million times.
Why
the phenomenal growth in the number of muzzleloading hunters turning to the
site? The answer is pretty easy, they
cannot find anywhere else a wider range of muzzleloader performance information
and "how
to" 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 Muzzleloader Seasons, than what is now
published on this one website.
Currently,
NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING
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 - Blackhorn 209. For more on this, copy and paste this link -
http://www.namlhunt.com/blackhorn209-2.html
Since
being first published on the internet in 2003, NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER
HUNTING has done more than the NATIONAL
RIFLE ASSOCIATION and the NATIONAL
MUZZLE LOADING RIFLE ASSOCIATION combined to get such non-serving and
often extremely discriminatory muzzleloader hunting regulations changed in
order to allow ALL muzzleloading
hunters to enjoy our sport. Since 2006,
that includes the
legalization
of riflescopes during the muzzleloader hunting seasons in Georgia, Kansas,
Nebraska and Wisconsin...for ALL
muzzleloading hunters. In 11 other
states which still proclaim it is illegal to use a "riflescope"
during such seasons, the federal government has since also mandated that these
states MUST make special provisions
for sight impaired muzzleloading hunters to use a scope - thanks to the efforts
of NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING.
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.
In
late summer 2011, the website went through a complete overhaul. Beginning in late July of that year, we
eliminated all older articles and reports...and started out with a clean
slate. Since then, we've built and
published more than 100 information
packed and well illustrated pages. This
newsletter is being put together and distributed in mid April. 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. NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING also has its own Facebook page.
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. In May, we plan to add several more great feature
articles or reports. 
One of the big arguments against the
use of a riflescope on a muzzleloader has been that such optics were not used
on "original"
muzzleloaders - which is far from the truth.
Muzzleloading target shooter and hunter James R. Chapman is often
credited for "inventing" and "perfecting" such telescopic
sights, about 1840. He wrote about such
sights in his book, "The Improved
American Rifle" - written in 1844 and published in 1848. Those early "riflescopes"
were made much like a pair of eyeglasses - for the individual shooters' eye
sight. Quite a few of the finest rifle
makers of the 1840's and 1850's also
built these early telescopic rifle sights - with the help of a local
optometrist.
A
May feature to be published on the NORTH
AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING 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. The accompanying photo shows a modern made
copy of a circa 1855 Malcolm scope, mounted on a circa 1855 styled hexagonal
bore .451 Whitworth long-range
rifle. The scope has been reproduced by
Leatherwood/Hi-Lux Optics.
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. 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.
Several new product test reports will also be featured through the
month.
Likewise,
we plan to publish from 3 to 5 information packed Feature Articles/Reports each
and every month. 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.
NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING
will continue to be the leading source for everything that is Muzzleloader Hunting. Go to the site at www.namlhunt.com and save it as a favorite.
-
Toby Bridges, NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING
Watch For The Summer-Fall 2013 NORTH AMERICAN MUZZLELOADER HUNTING
Newsletter About October 15th.
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. Right now, a small
handful of sponsors help keep this site on the internet. 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. Muzzleloader hunting is hunting, and more
muzzleloading hunters keep up with their sport right here than anywhere else.
