The BIG ONE - NMLRA Spring NATIONALS 2022 | Event Tour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
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The National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association is starting 2022 by kicking off the first national muzzle loading match of 2022 with beautiful weather and large crowds spelling a good year for enthusiasts despite supply and component shortages.
Last weekend I made the trip to Friendship, Indiana, home of the NMLRA for the first official day of the Spring National Shoot. This event draws the largest number of muzzleloading enthusiasts, competitors, vendors, businesses, and craftspeople in the country to one location that is typically home to a few hundred residents. It’s insane to see the valley swell to max capacity as people from all corners of the country arrive to live, breathe, and eat muzzleloading for an entire week.
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When I arrived Saturday morning it was cool and damp, something normal for the June Shoot where weather can be unpredictable. By noon the sun was shining and the grounds were full, a sign of a good event to come. When I arrived, I had planned on visiting with friends involved with each aspect of the NMLRA including the vendors/craftspeople, competitive shooters, and living historians. Unfortunately, I underestimated the friends I would find on the grounds and didn’t make it to a single shooting event. If you are reading and looking for competition content, I encourage you to visit the NMLRA Social media pages, the Blackpowder Maniac shooter, and Frontier Trading company for more event coverage. I’ll be interviewing a few competition shooters later this week about their matches.
What can you buy at the NMLRA Spring Shoot?
Built in the heyday of muzzleloading in the 20th century, the NMLRA “Commercial Row” houses nearly 100 booths where vendors, craftspeople, and businesses of all sizes sell their wares to muzzleloading enthusiasts. These businesses range from typical muzzleloading supply shops like “The Log Cabin Shop” or “Flintlocks LLC” from Mike Eder, to kit manufacturers like Jim Chambers Flintlocks, and contemporary makers like Mike Miller or Henry Bowman. If you are interested in muzzleloading, you’ll be hard-pressed to find NOTHING you need or want at the NMLRA commercial row.
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VIDEO CHAPTERS
0:14 BIG NMLRA NEWS
1:21 Come with me, and you'll see a world of pure muzzleloading fun
2:42 Lost Friends & Remembrance
5:31 The Tour Continues
7:25 My HAUL
12:17 You thought the tour was over?
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By far the best muzzleloading videos on TH-cam, anywhere else for that matter. The NMLRA should be paying you.
You are too kind, thank you.
That is a great book to read to the baby. They don't really understand English but most enjoy your talking to them.
Thanks Robert!
For those that missed this spring shoot, there is an even larger event, the fall, national shoot.
Ethan you are truly a asset to the tradition and loyal to your friends.
You are too kind, thank you.
Very well done video. Thanks for posting & it was good chatting with you again last weekend.
Thanks Mark! The same to you! Always good to catch up and share a meal
Nice recap video! It was great seeing you. I ended up picking up that buffalo hide at 1:18 and some other goodies!
Great to see you too! We'll get together and do some shooting or camping here soon!
I appreciate you taking the time to keep us informed and sharing about the muzzleloading community. Keep up the great work looking forward to your next video. Thanks again
Thanks so much Scott!
Those Woodfill Hawkens were sweet.
Yes, he does a great job!
Nice video Ethan. Thanks for sharing.
Happy to Jeff, it was nice to catch up!
@@ILoveMuzzleloading indeed it was
Reminds me that ive gotta reup my membership. Would love to come out there to one of the events but it's a long drive from MA to IN and gas is bloody expensive these days.
Gas is a killer, cost me over $100 just in gas for this trip. Hope to see you at an event someday.
Gimme a holler if you're ever in terre haute and I'll buy ya a drink lol
what a unusual video- 👋
Nathan, can I attend this event even though I don't compete in the shooting matches?
Yep, you don’t have to compete in any way. Members get in free, if you aren’t a member there is a small gate fee and then you have free reign of everything but the matches
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Thank you!
Because stupid young men grow up to be old codgers like me, and weren't smart enough to wear hearing protection back in those days-- because it wasn't manly. With my terrible and continual tinnitus, your music you added to the video, made it impossible to hear clearly, and most of it, not at all discernable. Music is added to everything these days, and I don't know why--very distracting for some, and in most cases completely unneeded, as in your video. Your informative voice and information is all anyone is really interested in anyway. Always wear hearing protection when shooting.
Sorry about that Joe! Thank you for taking the time to write and let me know! I'll keep that in mind for future videos.