The exciting sport of muzzleloaders?

Summary



In a story on homernews.com , there is a story about a muzzleloader shooting competition in Homer, Alaska. Apparently, there were a bunch of pistol shooters, shooting at a firing range next to where the muzzleloader competition was taking place. The sounds of the musket balls exploding out of the muzzleloaders drew the attention of the pistol shooters, who then became spectators to the event. One of the people in the competition, was the president of the Alaska muzzleloaders rifle association and former Michigan State University football player Keith Bayha. He became involved in muzzleloader shooting and competing at the age of fourty, after realizing that he was getting to old to compete in contact sports, muzzleloading offered a lower impact form of competition.



Response



I had been thinking about purchasing a muzzleloader myself, to extend my deer hunting season, by getting in on the bow & muzzleloader seasons as well as the usual firearms season. This article really spruced up the idea of muzzleloading in my mind. Aside from how a muzzleloader is loaded, it sounds as much fun as shooting modern firearms. Hearing about the accuracy of some of these primative firearms, some of which were used, were actually from the eighteen hundreds, really peaked my interest. One might wonder, why I chose an article from a local newspaper from Homer, Alaska. It is somewhat a dream, or maybe a fantasy rather, of mine, to live in Alaska, to tackle the wilderness of Alaska. I'd like to hike through the mountains, and fish the inland lakes, and hunt elk, moose, deer, and maybe even brown bear. Maybe someday it'll be a reality, but until then I've always got the internet and search engines.