Back around 2002-2003 I came into a couple of smoothbores made by one of the members here. As neither was really to my taste, I turned them over to the local scout troop I was working with. Over the years those guns have been used by every scout in the course of earning their shotgun merit badge, have springboarded most of them to their American Heritage badge, and have figured in roughly half of them getting merit badges in woodworking or metalworking. We now have parents who were scouts, and the ML shooting is something they all look forward to.
The guns have been useful teaching tools, enough so that I've had to rebuild the locks once or twice. I always had a good set of troop leaders and involved parents, so the weekend before any shooting we'd meet and plan things out. What we never had was any other ML shooters in the area who were willing to come help, or, despite requests, any support (educational materials etc) from the NMLRA. I'm not sure what that says about the folks who complain the sport is dying off.
