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It is my pleasure to announce the winners in the NMLRA Sept. Camp Atterbury Long Range match, Agg. LR. held on Sept. 11th and 12th. My personel thanks go's to Gene Carrol and Steve "Wayne" Austin for helping me get the range set up for the match and to Tom Schiffer for officiating as range officer at this match. A new NMLRA record was set at 1000 yds. by Robert Wetzler with a 84 - 2x. Another record of sorts was set at this match as all the awards were won by shooters using the Pedersoli Gibbs rifle, a testament to the quality of the rifle and product that Pedersoli produce's. Many thanks to the shooters and folks at Camp Atterbury for another great match. I will make the exact dates for next years events available after confimation from the military sometime around the first of the year. Until then, take care and keep them in the center.

Pete Terpstra

Oak Ridge, TN, USA - 20/21 October 2007

Oak Ridge is just 6 weeks away! I wanted to go ahead and send this out even though the International Match is currently underway in South Africa. Let me know any questions and please note my change on gun weight, I think it worth a try. Shooting is at 300, 600 & 1000 yards.

Cover Sheet / Match Rules / Registration Form

Rick Weber

It has now been almost 2 month's since the June Camp Atterbury match. We only have about 5 more weeks to the fall shoot. I got thinking I better get to work and send out the word to all of you of our next long range muzzle loading match to be held at Camp Atterbury In. as a part of the N.M.L.R.A. National Championship Shoot this September at Friendship. Our schedualed dates for this long range match are Tue. the 11th and Wed. the 12th during the shoot week. As we will be shooting at Camp Atterbury during the middle of our national shoot you can either mail in pre-registration for the National Shoot and the entry fee for the match or register and purchase the match at Friendship. Also please indicate any squadding request's you may have with your entry form. Entry's, both mail in and in person for this match, will close by 3 p.m. on Saturday September 8th to allow us the time to get all of the names going into the base on to the gate list and back to the military so please make sure you get your entry is in to us on time. The entry form available and our match is now listed in the fall program to refer to as Agg. LR. Also please remember that we are the guest's of the military at their range and our access into Camp Atterbury is strictly limited to and from the range we are using and to the parking facility.

Next year is the 75th Anniversay of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association. We were asked if we would like to do something special. We are planning on using the facility at Camp Atterbury in the fall of 2008 to hold a one time event to commemorate the occasion. The event we are planning to hold will be a re-creation of the historic 1874 Creedmoor match. Although the final details for this one time event are still in the works I can tell you at this time we will have prizes for both muzzle loading and black powder cartridge rifles, period dress and those original rifles showing up and being shot at this match.

Pete Terpstra

The results from the NMLRA Camp Atterbury Long Range Match of June 7 and 8, 2007 are now available. Thanks go to the shooters who perservered through extreamly windy conditions (42 mph winds on Thursday) to post these scores at the match. Gentlemen, my hats off to you. You did a fantastic job of shooting. My thanks also to Joe Hepsworth, Steve Swallow and Tom Shiffer for helping promote, co-ordinate and officiate over the event. For those of you that can make it we will be holding our next match in the fall at Camp Atterbury during the NMLRA Championship Match's on Tuesday and Wednesday the 11th and 12th of September. Thanks again for helping make the first NMLRA Long Range match a success. Have a great summer and hope to see you in the fall.

Pete Terpstra

Entries are invited for the 6ème Grand Prix De Langeac, France, 22-24 June 2007. There are events for military and sporting muzzle loaders and sporting BPCR at 600 and 1000 yards. Details and Entry Form.

The program for the upcoming NMLRA 800, 900 & 1000 yard matches to be held at Camp Atterbury (Edinburgh), Indiana on 7-8 June is available for download. The dates are Thursday and Friday before the NMLRA Spring Nationals at Friendship, Indiana (80 miles southeast of Atterbury) which are held for 9 days starting on Saturday 9 June.

Please, send in the entry form with your $45.00 (payable to the NMLRA) just as soon as possible - must be received by 31 may. Then e-mail Pete Terpstra confirming your entry, so he may put your name (or names if more than just you in your party) on the camp atterbury "gate list" - without your name so entered, you'll not be allowed to pass the main gate!!

These matches should be the start of what will become the annual NMLRA's long range muzzle loading matches and will be held each year.

Your support and participation is needed, please join in.

Either Pete or Iwill be most pleased to answer any specific questions you may have.

Kind regards to you all and see you at Atterbury 7-8 June.

Yours very truly,

Joe

Joseph M. Hepsworth

Bucky Malson and I drove down to Butner on 9 April and stayed in the Camp Barracks. The weather was mild and the next day, we gathered in the pits at 0830 to paste up some 1000 yard targets.

Eight shooters attended, including several new ones. Ted's program was simple, all 1000 yard matches of 1 hour duration, all day long. The weather was great - around 70F degrees, blue skies and lots of sunshine. We all worked to get the new shooters on target and we shot and shot and shot.

The range at Butner is a good one and with the weather we had, there was mirage to read and try to decipher. The winds were tricky, several reversals every relay. You needed 5 to 10 minutes windage right and/or left, as they swirled about. Bucky watched me shoot for a relay and wasn't backward about pointing out what I was doing wrong, so far as my prone technique was concerned!!!! AND it certainly didn't do my normal excuse repertoire any good!! He wasn't about to accept "the patch must not have come off the bullet" or "the wind shifted, just as I let fly" PERIOD!!!

All totaled, we shot six relays, with an hour break for lunch - a most enjoyable shooting day.

Oak Ridge, TN, USA - 16/17/18 February 2007

Eleven shooter braved the bad, cold, snowy weather all weekend for the 17th semi-annual LRML match held in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Fourteen shooters in all participated, but only eleven finished. A few other past shooters showed up to show their support, mostly from their vehicles! Ha! The temperature barely rose above freezing and Saturay the sun never showed and the snow showers were around all day. Friday & Sunday were a little better with the Sun shinning, but Sunday the wind really blew, especially the second relay.

We had some great discussions about the rifle weight issue along with other
issues about Friendship, MLAIC and other topics relating to LRML while eating/visiting after the days' events. Special congratulations to the three new shooters that attended, Mike Rix, Ron Kiser and Jason Day. They were certainly welcomed with open arms and I just hate that weather did not cooperate and I do hope they will return. Like we said, if it was rain we wouldn't have shot, but with snow we just had to dress for it, which we all did. I will not do a Feburary match again!

The next Oak Ridge match is October, 19-21.

Rick Weber

2007 World Championships

The 6th MLAIC World Long Range Championships are being hosted by the Black Powder Shooting Union of South Africa, at Cape Town, 1-8 September 2007. The following information is now available:

• Final Program
• Registration Form - Closing date 16 March 2007
• Order Form: Black Powder and Caps - Closing date 31 March 2007
• Awards

First posted 1 February. Updated 19 February.

18 January 2007

New pictures of the Elcho Rigby match rifle have been added to the collecting section, along with a picture of Whitworth C476.

Oak Ridge, TN, USA - 16/17/18 February 2007

Oak Ridge LRML match is only a month away! Note the earlier than usual date. Shooting at 300, 600 & 1000 yards. 10 record shots at each distance,
unlimited sighters. Relay times 45, 1hr, 1.25hrs respectively.

Cover Sheet / Match Rules / Registration Form

Rick Weber

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