Today was the annual state team shoot, for the WMLA, hosted by the club i belong to, Smoky Hollow. The weather was perfect. The shoot consisted of 3 person teams. One shooter for a 25 yard flintlock target, one shooter for a 50 yard target and 1 person shooting a 6 bull target at 25 yards. We had 6 teams shooting. Traditional style muzzleloaders with patched round ball. My wife and sister shot with another lady club member, and their team took third place overall. My wife took third individual shooting the 50 yard target. My team was dad, a good friend and me, took first overall and i placed first in the 6 bull target. Overall a wonderful day at the range.

Couldn't think of a Bettah way to spend the Aftah noon. !

Wish we had a club like yours around here

Do any of the fun shooting matches ?

We sure do. We have post cutting matches (usually teams of 2 shooting a 4x4 in half), split the ball on a hatchet, clay birds through holes in logs and all kinds of metal silhouettes. We also shoot clay birds thrown from an electric trap thrower. A real simple fun shoot is a 6 inch gong type target. Start at 25 yards, hit it and you stay in, miss and you are out. Every round the range increases by 5 yards. We can go about 135 yards at the range, and have used all of that a couple times.

Good deal k snow, congrads to both you and the wife and all the teams' members.

I was helping with the awards by calling out places. To see the look on the gals' faces when i called them for third place was worth the entire day. It was shock at first, then all smiles. They are all good shots, but they didn't think they would place at all with some of the other shooters that showed up.

At my club we do some fun stuff too. Shoot a playing card in half. Pretzels on a string. And my favorite is the candle shoot at night - snuff out the candle without hitting it.
We also have this target that is a 4 inch pipe about three ft. long with a bend in the middle that angles up. A water balloon is set on the top end. The idea is to shoot into the lower end and your ball travels up the pipe and breaks the balloon. A lot of fun.

Cool.
I've never heard of that group.

Here is the website. The group is dedicated to traditional sidelock muzzleloaders. There are sanctioned shoots and public demos throughout the year. Like most groups, they are struggling with active membership and club involvement. Add in the new definition of 'muzzleloader' in WI and who knows what will happen.

WMLA

Way to go! I love the crack and kaboom of a flintlock, and the smoke!

The Vermont Trappers Association has a black powder shoot at their convention. I went one year and had a great time.

That sounds like a great way to bring like minded people together.

Congrats to you and your wife. Sounds like you guys had a great time. What a beautiful weekend to have events.