I know this isn't "exactly" on topic, but it bears publicizing and this is a great place for it, eh Mike?
Well a group of us started an effort to work with kids doing instruction in black powder muzzleloading prior to Covid and we got in one successful summer. Then the Covid put the brakes on us. We're back now and going at it even harder. This week, we've been to two Scout camps- Raven Knob and Bud Schiele, both in NC. We've worked with 29 kids this week from WV to FL and plan to work with similar numbers through the entire summer each week.
The guns we use are a couple personal PRB rifles, but the one we use for the vast majority of our actual instruction are 1863 Remington replicas aka "Zouaves" donated by PJ Kelly of the N-SSA. We also use donated powder and caps from Schutzen Energetics, THANK YOU TAMBI!!! During our "lecture" part of the sessions, we cover the history of muzzleloading and since we are N-SSA competitors, we use quite a few Civil War arms for illustration and allow the kids to handle Sharps, Maynards, Henrys, Remingtons, Enfields, and more. The kids are always amazed at the range of arms used in the War and they have a fantastic time shooting muskets.
So a couple pix-
Well a group of us started an effort to work with kids doing instruction in black powder muzzleloading prior to Covid and we got in one successful summer. Then the Covid put the brakes on us. We're back now and going at it even harder. This week, we've been to two Scout camps- Raven Knob and Bud Schiele, both in NC. We've worked with 29 kids this week from WV to FL and plan to work with similar numbers through the entire summer each week.
The guns we use are a couple personal PRB rifles, but the one we use for the vast majority of our actual instruction are 1863 Remington replicas aka "Zouaves" donated by PJ Kelly of the N-SSA. We also use donated powder and caps from Schutzen Energetics, THANK YOU TAMBI!!! During our "lecture" part of the sessions, we cover the history of muzzleloading and since we are N-SSA competitors, we use quite a few Civil War arms for illustration and allow the kids to handle Sharps, Maynards, Henrys, Remingtons, Enfields, and more. The kids are always amazed at the range of arms used in the War and they have a fantastic time shooting muskets.
So a couple pix-