I Love Muzzleloading

Today we're talking with Darren Binder, the marketing coordinator at Muzzle-Loaders.com about western muzzleloading culture. Having grown up in the eastern side of the US, I'm always excited to talk to western muzzleloaders about how our hobby changes from coast to coast. 

Follow Darren's work at the links below- 

Website: https://www.muzzle-loaders.com/

Podcast- https://www.muzzle-loaders.com/muzzleloader-podcast
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@Muzzleloaders:5
Facebo ok: https://www.facebook.com/MuzzleLoader...
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/muzzleloade...
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 855-236-5000 

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Today we're talking with Eric van Alstine, a traditional leather worker from the state of Missouri working to recreate the golden age of leatherworking with his contemporary works.

Eric really focuses on using historical tools and oftentimes original tools from the eighteen and up to the nineteen hundreds. Eric has a lot to say about the history of leatherworking and where he gets his inspiration from. He is a real student of history when it comes to all of this, and he offers some really interesting perspectives about where he studies where he gets his resources, where he finds originals to be inspired by to make clients and customers bags.

"My only, what I call my modern tools is scissors and harness needles and pretty much everything else is old, antique tools from the Golden Age of leather work and leatherworkthat golden age when happened, were started in about 1826 and then you know it kind of you know went on up until the early nineteen hundreds, and so all my tools come from that time frame and I do have one piece- it goes back to about the late 1700s, I don't use it- it just sits on the shelf. I'm a student of history, American history and I derive a lot of stuff from there and I see a lot of guys that sit there and say: Oh, this is the way it was. This is the way it was you know, but they miss out on the harness makers and the saddle makers and how beautiful their work really was. And so I try to take what those harness makers did in the back, what I call the mountain regions and everything- and you know recreate what they would have made: with the tools that they had, and so that's what makes mine look a little different than most.

You can go out west and sit down with some of these old saddle makers and they just make beautiful works of art, and you know, 1700s hand-stitched saddles, they had to have somebody make them, and you know it's a lost and dying art of what was. I try to keep that alive by picking up old, antique leatherworking tools. I employ all those in my work and at the end of the day it looks a little bit different than most, and that's why I like to do. " 

Follow Eric's Work

Instagram - Instagram.com/ironweed_leather

Facebook - Eric Van Alstine

Email - eric.vanalstine(At)gmail.com 

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Safety: Never put smokeless powder into a muzzleloader that is not rated for it. The muzzleloaders Nick is using and referencing are custom built to meet the demands of Smokeles Powder. Always follow manufacturer guidelines and safety protocol for your muzzleloader.

For Nick Parcher, muzzleloading looks a bit different than many of us are used to. Nick is focused on two things, precision, and hunting.

In the late 1990s, Savage arms released the first "mass produced" smokeless muzzleloader, the "ML" and later the "ML2". The fallout from these rifles reached far and wide, they lead to a series of injuries and muddied the water on muzzleloaders and how to use them.

But from the ashes of the Savage ML came a new breed of precision muzzleloading, one that would leave the roundball , sabot, and blackpowder behind.

Nick is an avid smokeless muzzleloader enthusiast and has been since the launch of the Savage ML. "Savage didn't really know what they were doing, in starting a whole new breed of muzzleloader", Nick says, and he was right. While the ML and ML2 are relegated to aftermarket parts for their shooters in 2021, Nick is part of a community doing what Savage couldn't, pushing muzzleloading to the limit while being as safe as possible.

Hunting for Nick has changed a lot over the years, when he was younger he hunted in a party with his buddies, all tracking and pushing deer through the woods/fields with shotguns. As his interested changed, and he moved towards hunting from a blind, he needed something with more accuracy and more range. Before switching to a muzzleloader, 190-200yds was as far as Nick had ever shot, now it's much further than that, about 492 yards. For 2021, Nick is hoping to take a deer at ~800 yards.

When it comes to the safety of modern smokless muzzleloaders, Nick is happy about the changes in technology and mentality among shooters, he's become a go to person to run simulations on pressure calculations to make sure a load is safe before it's shot.

"Now I'm not going to lie, a couple of these guys actually blow up guns or you know most barrels getting to know stuff, but it was under a more controlled scenario where they kind of saw coming right. They'd push the limit a little too far and and nobody really got hurt, but these pressure traces were all over the message boards and and people were starting to do that and then, of course, quick loads came along. Quick loads had been out for a long time, but had never really been applied to muzzle loading and that's and that's kind of where I took over I took quick loads and being an engineer and using a lot of software, I kind of worked it out and and now quick loads is actually the go to name.

So whenever somebody asks me, what is as safe to shoot right. It takes me just a minute or two to plug the numbers in and find out. I can say, here's the velocity you're going to get and here's the pressure you're going to see and based on the kind of gun, whether it's a good idea or it's a bad idea! "

As any muzzleloading enthusiast will tell you, hunting seasons are too short to be "enough" muzzleloading for the year. Nick continues to be hooked to this day, sending nearly 1000 rounds a year downrange. Competitive shooting became a way to practice for the hunt, and try new things. Nick now travels as much as he can to competitive matches, and continues to try to enter "Precision Rifle Matches" for modern center fire rifles with his muzzleloader to prove a muzzleloader can compete and expose more to the muzzleloading hobby. Reception has been cold though, but Nick is hopeful for the future.

In recent years, Nick has participated in and now runs the "Midwest Muzzleloader Classic", a long range muzzleloading match in Iowa. All muzzleloaders are welcome, but you'll shoot the same course of fire if you have a break action or a long range bolt action inline muzzleloader, so come prepared!

Course of Fire is

3 rounds at 200 yards, one at each plate 12", 6", and 4"

3 rounds at 300 yards, one at each plate 12", 6", and 4"

3 rounds at 400 yards, one at each plate 12", 6", and 4"

3 rounds at 500 yards, one at each plate 12", 6", and 4"

3 shot group at 100 yards will be the tie breaker.

The prizes this year are

Medford Knives donated two knives $600 each

Tactile Turn Titanium bolt action pen $100

Defiance Machine 50% off an action $755 value

Nightforce Optics 25 hats and loads of other swag

Berger Bullets 100 bullet your choice

Vihtavuori powder 1lb of powder and lots of reloading manuals

Hankins Rifles Smooth Form Die

Fury Bullets TBD

Leupold TBD

Arrowhead Rifles TBD

For more information on this match, check out the flyer at ILoveMuzzleloading.com or visit the facebook event here.

Nick also hosts a series of "Cold Bore Matches" that, as the title states, rely on the barrel of your rifle being cold, forcing the shooter to know their gun and how it behaves with unknown yardages. These "cold Bore" matches are open to center fire shooters, but Nick has been converting them to muzzleloaders for some time now.

It's hard to sell a production gun to a custom muzzleloader shooter, Nick is well past anything offered by the "Big 3", but he respects their place in the community. If you ask Nick how to get started in muzzleloading, he's going to recommend the best of the best, something that does what he likes and it'll run nearly $4,000. "Most people can't and won't spend that kind of money on a muzzleloader, and I get that. There's a need for those $300-$500 guns out there, they bring people into the sport."

I often hear people complain that inline/modern muzzleloaders only shoot muzzleloaders for 2 weeks out of the year, that they don't care about the muzzleloading community. Nick is the opposite of that. I don't know that I've met someone that shoots as much and cares as much about seeing muzzleloading of all types preserved and passed on to future generations.

He cares about the sport, the people, and the businesses that make it all possible. 

Follow Nick on Instagram- instagram.com/mista_paacha/ 

Join "Hank's Message Board" to chat with Nick and his friends - https://hanksmessageboard.freeforums.net/

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Recently, the summer issue of American frontiersman magazine came out and it is all focusing on muzzleloading and early American fire arms. This is some great exposure for the muzzleloading community. Mike Beliveau has a great article in this magazine about smooth bore accuracy, so be sure to check this out.

The Bryan station muzzleloaders club at Wilmore, Kentucky has added two more table shoots to their match structure for the year, they'll be hosting the first on July 25 and the second on November 28

This past June was the national 4H shooting sports competition, competitors from all over the country traveled into Nebraska to compete in a variety of shooting sports all offered by the 4H program.

One shooter was recognized by Schuetzen powder as one of their kind of sponsored or supported, shooters. Schuetzen and Swiss black powder wanted to congratulate their local forage champion Julia Davis and the Texas team.

For this summer, the Wolf Creek Cap Snappers are going to be hosting a summer muzzling match on August 22, 2021 in Chester Hill Ohio.

If you're in Tennessee and looking to test the metal with your modern long range inline muzzleloading, I really encourage you to check out the Tennessee Inline Championship on August 20 and 21. This match is very structured, relying on the NRA classification guidelines, but this is good, it keeps you in competition with similarly skilled shooters. This is a great match that grows every year, now is the time to get in and have some fun.

The Chattanooga Conservancy has discovered a swamped, dugout canoe in the Chattanooga river. In coordination with the South Carolina institute of archaeology and anthropology, and the forest service, a team worked together to bring the canoe out from the river and into a cradle where the canoe can safely be removed from the river and preserved.

On July 10th and 11th, Bergara launched their first Bergara experience event in a little over two years. I'm really hoping to see out of this is some more on the Paramount HTR.

Muzzle-Loaders.com shared in a new video series about the Accura LRX and MRX, sharing they are expecting their first shipment in August, 2021

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Hi, I'm Ethan and I love muzzleloading. Today we're talking with Paul from The Orion Foundation Instagram page. Paul has been a true inspiration for me and several of the other young muzzleloading enthusiasts in the contemporary era. What Paul's doing is really unique and really special for the muzzleloading community. He serves a a great service to the community at large, bringing people in and showing them that you don't have to focus in on one aspect of muzzleloading to enjoy it. Paul's going to talk a lot about how he works at getting his kids and their friends interested in muzzleloading and the outdoors.

What Paul has to say is really important and he's doing is something that we should all take to heart and try to learn from so that we can all pass the torch of muzzleloading onto the next generation.

Follow Paul's work 

https://www.buckskinning.org/ 

https://www.orionfoundation.org/ 

https://www.instagram.com/theorionfoundation/ 

Paul's "Green River Boys" Project is online now in it's preliminary stage. Please check it out and consider starting a club in your area 

https://www.greenriverboys.com

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