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2016 Club Team Postal Matches

The UPMLA sponsors a team postal competition among several muzzle loading clubs. The competition includes matches taking place monthly for six months, January through June.

Muzzleloading clubs that are interested in joining the competition should contact the UPMLA (see contacts below). In previous years, participating clubs have come from Alaska, Canada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas, and Florida.

Six clubs participated in 2016:
  • Baraga Blackpowder Bunch shooting at Ottawa Sportsmen's Club, Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Link to Ottawa club web site)

  • Crumlin Sportsmen's Association of London, Ontario, Canada. (Link to Crumlin Sportsmen's Association web site)

  • Dallas Muzzle Loading Gun Club of Dallas, Texas (Link to Dallas Club web site- under construction)

  • McKinley Mountainmen Muzzle Loading Rifle Club of Anchorage, Alaska (Link to McKinley Mountainmen club web site)

  • Menominee Ridge Runners from Northern Wisconsin

  • Voyageurs Muzzle Loading Rifle Club from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

How it works:  Each month, all the shooters who show up for the monthly meeting of each club fire six shots at individual paper targets distributed for the monthly competition. All who shoot are considered to be "on the team" for their club for that month. Numbers of individuals who shoot at any of the clubs can vary from month to month.

Targets are placed 25 yards from the firing line. Firearms should be traditional sidehammer or underhammer rifles or smoothbores, either flintlocks or caplocks. Open sights only. Patched roundball only. The five highest scoring shots on each target will be counted toward the individual target score of 50 points maximum.

After its monthly shoot, each club mails the targets from all of its shooters to the competition scorer. The five highest-scoring targets from each club are totaled to make up the club score, which is used to determine the monthly winning club. The scorer mails the targets back to the clubs along with a tally of the scores from the other clubs, amd with a target for the next month's shooting.

There are NO FEES for participating. The only cost to a club is for postage to return the targets for scoring, and for photocopying a new target for club members each month.

[img:tgt0415] The targets often show a good bit of imagination and artistry. Some careful planning before shooting may be necessary to decide how to place the shots to maximize the score.

The competition is for fun and glory.

Summary scores for the teams may be posted in the News and Notes section of the UPMLA web site. (Here is a link to 2016 Scores.)

More information? Questions? Contact:
  • Jon or Sandy Henkel

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