A place to shoot in NW Arkansas

[bpd303]

The City of Berryville has a nice range open to the public. There are two muzzle shooting matches held there every year.
http://www.berryville.com/lowens.html

 

[bpd303]

Also in Berryville there is a museum of old famous people's guns. It's a true treasure. http://www.berryville.com/museum.html

 

[AWsaddles]

Nice to see fellow arkies on here. I live at Berryville and shoot there quite often. Nice place.

 

[bpd303]

Just received a flyer for the spring shoot. It is the Arkansas State Championship Shoot May 17, 18, 19 sponsored by The Arkansas Muzzle Loading Assn. Inc. Has a contact number for Angie Reynolds 479-747-3096. Unfortunately I couldn't find a web site.

 

[catman]

I'll be there..

 

[bpd303]

The 58th annual fall shoot is this weekend...

 

[bpd303]

Just got the word that the spring muzzle shoot will be May 15th-18th. Should be a lot of vendors there this year.

 

[bpd303]

Just got the flyer for the 59th annual Saunders Memorial Shoot. Everyone is welcome.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Also in Berryville there is a museum of old famous people's guns. It's a true treasure. http://www.berryville.com/museum.html[/quote]

Yep. Our friend Hawk, worked there as a kid maintaing the guns. Sadly, the curator died a number of years ago and his wife was hired for the job. And, double sadly, she knows nothing about being a curator. The place is in a sad state. A lot of the guns have been taken out and replaced with furniture. What I find interesting is many of the single shot pistols are underhammers.

 

[Rifleman1776]

Yeppers. I hope to be there, missed spring event. Will be good to meet up and see Hawk also.

 

[bpd303]

When I started on the P.D. in '84, the curator was Bill Kirkpatrick (I think that was his name). He was an ex Texas Ranger and had many tales to tell.
Around 1985 my Lt. and I did a video taped inventory of all the firearms and it was discovered that some of the guns were missing. At that time the city had the inventory appraised at 19 million dollars. There have been several curators since then. Here is an interesting story about Col. Saunders by the local paper in 2005. http://www.carrollconews.com/story/1388524.html

 

[Rifleman1776]

That is interesting. There were many odd, even bizzare stories out of post-CW. I did not know much of that. The article also said:

He would not purchase a gun without being certain of its history.

There is (was?) a knife in there purported to be "the original" Bowie knife. I am not aware of any serious student of the subject that will agree it is "the original".
Sad about the missing guns. I'm sure there is another story to be told there but will probably never be solved. I hope things are better now than last time I visited. I'll try to get back in September.

 

[bpd303]

Just a couple of weeks now till the fall shoot.

 

[bpd303]

The Arkansas State Championship Spring shoot is coming up, May 15-16-17.

 

[bpd303]

Just got the flyer for the 60th Annual Saunder's Memorial Shoot.
It's September 24, 25, 26, 27, 2015.
The flyer is basically the same as the one I posted earlier, except for the dates.

Hope a lot of competitors and vendors make it.

 

[bpd303]

Next weekend folks, hope y'all can make it.

 

[bpd303]

Been out of pocket for a while.
Just learned that the Fall Muzzle Shoot is coming up this month the 22nd through the 25th. Hope folks can make it.

 

[bpd303]

The Spring shoot is coming up 3rd weekend in May... Y'all come hope to see ya there.

 

[8 BORE]

This thread is at least 5 years old. Somebody should update it. for
2019

 

[bpd303]

The fall muzzle shoot is coming up the end of the month. Sept 27th-29th. Hope to meet up with old friends.