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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: Seth Isaacson on July 25, 2024, 07:31:29 PM
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I found it interesting that he is shooting between the other man's legs to have shade for lining up the shot. That is definitely not a practice we'd generally advocate for today, but clearly they trusted each other.
Do any of you guys have local clubs that still regularly host meat shoots with muzzleloading rifles? I know I've seen a few posts about such events on here over the years.
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Seth ,
We have 2 meat shoots at our club every year . The shot is never the same and each one is really fun.
Thanks , Steve
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Used to have a shoot for buffalo meat in Chilliwack B.C. back in the 70's, maybe it went into 80's? First prize was 10 pounds of meat. Won 40 pounds at a match there in the 70's.
Good Meat.
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I've just learned from one of our members that the St. Genevieve shoots are still an annual event which is pretty awesome.
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Its been several years now but we would have a " grocery " shoot as a side match at our annual shoot. It was fun and very popular.
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Where is St.Genevieve located. This thread reminds me of my father many years ago talking about a "Steak"house in Chicago and he was will to wager a good sum on money that these "Steaks"at one time had pulled milk delivery wagons all over Chicago.When my mother and I came to Huntington WVa in 1947 it still had a horse drawn milk delivery called Guyan Creamery.Also an ice delivery for those who had no electric refrigerator..Getting back to shooting for groceries I shot for and won a basket of groceries near Portsmouth,Ohio,won it and gave it to a man who really needed them.I think this was in 1958 and the rifle I used was one I made with the FIRST barrel Bill Large made when he got his big shop going.It was a 58 caliber,one inch by thirty three with a one in forty four inch twist.I sold it in 1963 and it later went to Tweedle Dee the Wonder Dummy who left it in a rowboat that got 4"of water in it from a storm.I later made a representation of a rifle in our museum with a 58 caliber Bill Large barrel and he concaved the lands in that barrel and it later had a full length Malcolm telescope mounted and I got good results out to 399 yards which was the distance from the firing line to a big tree on Bill's personal range using hollow based bullets and with round and 120 grains of Curtis&Harvey 3fg it was almost as good as the hollow base Minies.NONE went out of the none ring on the standard NMLRA target.
Bob Roller
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St. Genevieve City is in St. Genevieve Township in St. Genevieve County in Missouri is a historic town with roots in the French Illinois Country of the colonial era. It is just about an hour south of St. Louis.
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Cool Article!
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Interesting article, it’s great that they’ve continued the tradition!
Tony
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Awesome, thanks for sharing
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And the match is still held annually at the Dew Drop Inn in Bloomsdale, Missouri on the Saturday before Easter.
Of course, there is also the Alvin York Over the Log Match in Kentucky.
The Bevel Brothers have a Match near Kansas City.
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That's a high order of shooting precision and requires a level of skill that is beyond my abilities.
J.B.
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Nice old article. Thankfully wrong about the fading away of muzzleloaders. I like the final quote;
“Fashioned by unknown smiths long since silent…. Light in weight; graceful in line, economical in consumption of powder and lead; fatally precise and distinctly American”.