Earlier in the year I had posted about the poor state of muzzle loading guns being used by our local 4-H youth shooting sports club. They shoot here on my range each Tuesday through the spring and summer months. The best guns that they could muster were plastic half stock department store guns or in-line deer guns. These things were hard for the kids to shoot and unreliable at best. I decided to put together something better for them to try.
With the generous help from ALR members Austin and J Talbert and some wheeling and dealing with Jim Chambers Flintlocks I was fortunate enough to get 3 nice guns together.
One rifle is a stick build 45, the other two are Chambers Little Feller’s kits in 50 cal. I opted to put set triggers in all three guns. Set triggers were something totally new to the kids as were the flintlocks.
We had our first session yesterday. After very little range time these kids had their guns shooting in the black and each one had at least one in the 10 ring.
Here are the shooters!
Here are the rifles.
I hope that someday one of the kids that go through the muzzle loading part of 4-H down here gets hooked on our sport the way that I am!!
