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Any muzzleloading Clubs or Shoots near Eastern Indiana/Cincy?
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If you go to the NMLRA website and click on charter clubs you can get a listing of clubs in your area. Ohio looks to offer more than Indiana.
Closest to you is probably The Wahpanipe club, (to get to the range you turn north off US 52 at Andersonville onto the Rush/Franklin county line road) but they have not had an offhand match in years. It is strictly chunk gun. That aside, if you have never shot chunk you should give it a try. It can be a humbling experience.
The nearest regular place to shoot in Indiana is probably Blue River Longrifles near Morristown. Always good folks.
I have only shot at the Cincinnati club once but it is close to you and is a very old, well established club. It has some good shooters and draws even more.
If you are interested in the primitive game be sure to contact Thundercreek Longrifles. Their range is in northern Brown County, Indiana.
I’ve been away for several years. Back when I shot a lot it was possible, with an hour or two of driving, to shoot somewhere just about every weekend if you wanted to. I don’t think it’s changed much.
Closest to you is probably The Wahpanipe club, (to get to the range you turn north off US 52 at Andersonville onto the Rush/Franklin county line road) but they have not had an offhand match in years. It is strictly chunk gun. That aside, if you have never shot chunk you should give it a try. It can be a humbling experience.
The nearest regular place to shoot in Indiana is probably Blue River Longrifles near Morristown. Always good folks.
I have only shot at the Cincinnati club once but it is close to you and is a very old, well established club. It has some good shooters and draws even more.
If you are interested in the primitive game be sure to contact Thundercreek Longrifles. Their range is in northern Brown County, Indiana.
I’ve been away for several years. Back when I shot a lot it was possible, with an hour or two of driving, to shoot somewhere just about every weekend if you wanted to. I don’t think it’s changed much.
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Over the log, or "chunk".
It’s a different kind of game that can be played with any rifle, but is best played with a gun that has a heavier than usual, longer than usual barrel.
The matches are usually shot from the prone position at an “X” target sixty yards away. Since nobody has eyes good enough to see the x at sixty yards, actual aiming is done at a “spotter”. The spotter can be whatever works best for the individual shooter. Some use some sort of “V”, some use a disc, some use a square”¦.there is no set standard. SOP is one shot matches, measured from the center of the ball to the center of the x. If there are ten shots in a day, aggregate might be all ten, or five chosen by the shooter before the individual match is shot. The individual matches are added up, and the shortest string wins the aggregate.
An interesting thing about guns that are used strictly for chunk shooting is that they are generally not zeroed in. Your are aiming at your spotter, and if that is also where the ball is hitting the spotter will wind up shot to pieces. There is always time allowed for practice. You mount your spotter, hopefully shoot a decent group, and when the matches start you place the paper X target so that the x is centered in the group. You NEVER remove the spotter.
It should be like shooting from a bench, but it isn’t. Like I said, it can be a humbling experience.
It’s a different kind of game that can be played with any rifle, but is best played with a gun that has a heavier than usual, longer than usual barrel.
The matches are usually shot from the prone position at an “X” target sixty yards away. Since nobody has eyes good enough to see the x at sixty yards, actual aiming is done at a “spotter”. The spotter can be whatever works best for the individual shooter. Some use some sort of “V”, some use a disc, some use a square”¦.there is no set standard. SOP is one shot matches, measured from the center of the ball to the center of the x. If there are ten shots in a day, aggregate might be all ten, or five chosen by the shooter before the individual match is shot. The individual matches are added up, and the shortest string wins the aggregate.
An interesting thing about guns that are used strictly for chunk shooting is that they are generally not zeroed in. Your are aiming at your spotter, and if that is also where the ball is hitting the spotter will wind up shot to pieces. There is always time allowed for practice. You mount your spotter, hopefully shoot a decent group, and when the matches start you place the paper X target so that the x is centered in the group. You NEVER remove the spotter.
It should be like shooting from a bench, but it isn’t. Like I said, it can be a humbling experience.
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And by the way, one of the first, if not THE first shoot they have each year is the Hog Shoot. Just ten shots, but people come from Canada, Missouri, and even South Carolina to shoot those ten shots. It’s one of those one day shoots that sometimes lasts for several days. There is always a few hundred years worth of muzzleloading experience sitting in Allen’s 16X16 Coon den on Friday and Saturday night. You can’t help but pick up some things of interest.
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