Hello from Suffolk, UK

[Tinworm]

Hello Everyone
I have been shooting black powder for under two months, and I absolutely love it! I am in two clubs, one of which is BP specific - and a nicer bunch of blokes you couldn't meet. And on Sunday mornings my partner and I go to another club, quite a lot further away, where we are both probationary members, shooting mainly .22, but there is also a very friendly crowd of muzzle loaders, who have made us very much at home. Indeed, one old boy has just given me a Navy Arms Remington! Another shooter is having it put on his licence, to keep for me until I have my own FAC. Here in the UK we have a fairly long-winded process to get licensed, but that is fine by me. In the meantime I find everyone in both clubs very willing to let me shoot their guns. I have shot various Colt revolvers, a Remington, Enfield P1853 three band, Martini Henry cadet, some long muskets, a couple of Winchesters etc etc

 

[thomas]

Welcome to the forum.
Thomas

 

[Eutycus]

Howdy and Welcome from Texas!

 

[TDM]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[toot]

Welcome.

 

[Thingamajiggy]

Welcome! From NE PA.

 

[kje54]

Welcome from the high desert

 

[kelljp]

Welcome from East TN

 

[UndeadPoet]

Welcome, from the “Carolina colony!”

 

[Tinworm]

thank you, all, very much. Welcomes very much appreciated.

 

[TFoley]

Welcome from NW Cambridgeshire! Me, I do NOT like the UK's ludicrous gun laws, but like anybody who wants to shoot a real firearm, I have to obey them or stop shooting. There seems to be a growing number of folks from this side of the Great Water - South Welsh shooter and re-enactor Gwalchmai joined us last week.

 

[Tinworm]

For me guns are for sport and historical and technological interest. We will have to agree to disagree about our different gun laws; we don't need to like each other's laws. I think it is largely a cultural difference; we have different histories. But we can enjoy what we have in common - our love of black powder.

 

[nit wit]

Welcome from Maine
Nit Wit

 

[ord sgt]

Welcome from New Jersey, USA. We have an international bunch of black powder enthusiasts on here. Many good folks from the UK.

 

[Gum Slough Muzzleloader]

Hello Everyone
I have been shooting black powder for under two months, and I absolutely love it! I am in two clubs, one of which is BP specific - and a nicer bunch of blokes you couldn't meet. And on Sunday mornings my partner and I go to another club, quite a lot further away, where we are both probationary members, shooting mainly .22, but there is also a very friendly crowd of muzzle loaders, who have made us very much at home. Indeed, one old boy has just given me a Navy Arms Remington! Another shooter is having it put on his licence, to keep for me until I have my own FAC. Here in the UK we have a fairly long-winded process to get licensed, but that is fine by me. In the meantime I find everyone in both clubs very willing to let me shoot their guns. I have shot various Colt revolvers, a Remington, Enfield P1853 three band, Martini Henry cadet, some long muskets, a couple of Winchesters etc etc

Welcome from West Sumter County Florida

 

[Dale Lilly]

Welcome. You bring back memories. I built my son his first rifle from a Martini Henry Cadet. If I remember correctly that is a .310 Greener. Made a nice little beginner's rifle. Loved the UK back in 1963. Polecat

 

[lt508th]

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Tinworm]

Thank you all, Gentlemen.

Dale, I have now fired Martini Henry in .22 and something round 357 (must check). the cadet rifle I shot was made for the Australian army and had a kangaroo engraved on top of the breech.
BTW, I was born in 1963! What brought you here?

 

[Colonial Boy]

Welcome from New England.

 

[user 31232]

Welcome to you from this side of the pond in Indiana!