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Friendship, Indiana BP Double Rifle Match Sept 13
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Will anyone here be attending this match? My gentleman friend has invited me to go, and we will both be shooting his Army and Navy .577-450 hammer double.
 
Posts: 1278 | Location: The Bluegrass State | Registered: 21 October 2014Reply With Quote
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I was hoping to meet some members here at this event.

I have some pictures, I’ll post them soon.

Friendship Indiana is home to the national muzzleloader association, and is a huge facility dedicated to education and preservation of pioneer, primitive and antique weapons.

They host a double rifle completion, shooting 20 rounds in ten stages at African animal targets.

There were about 16 competitors, all shooting hammer double rifles, with about 1/2 being muzzleloaders.

As always with this site and the double rifle community, everyone was incredibly nice, and 25-40 years older than me.

I will mention one funny thing.

There was a gentleman with a 1890? something German rifle, who went to huge effort to trim and modify 50-110? Brass, without having any idea as to what caliber his rifle was exactly.

He got super huffy when I suggested that he send the rifle to a number of gunsmiths here, as well as jj peredeau, to figure out exactly what it was. It was to the point that he was using a metal cleaning rod through the muzzle, to eject his spent brass after each stage.

I was shooting my good friends army and navy 1896 .577-450.

Pictures tomorrow.
 
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Looks like wonderfully good fun. I used to reload that round in my Martini days. Must have been very pleasant to shoot in a double rifle.


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It is great fun.
 
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