tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post8837904864519920872..comments2024-03-28T06:11:55.879-06:00Comments on The Michael Bane Blog: Pre-Christmas Blogging DoldrumsMichael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-75052627610334020522008-12-25T03:21:00.000-07:002008-12-25T03:21:00.000-07:00Another great story about a gun owner preventing a...Another great story about a gun owner preventing a crime.<BR/><A>http://tinyurl.com/7mmprp</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-3225084626268698072008-12-24T06:52:00.000-07:002008-12-24T06:52:00.000-07:00It is amazing how a person's enthusiasm for a subj...It is amazing how a person's enthusiasm for a subject will allow them to hold a view that is contrary to reality. Traditional muzzleloading is in a decline and no amount of ancedotal posturing will change that fact. <BR/><BR/>The statement that the NMLRA went over to the inlines is rubbish. The magazine is still mostly devoted to the dress up and play Daniel Boone crowd. Shooters can still shoot Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-13637022608477599392008-12-23T20:38:00.000-07:002008-12-23T20:38:00.000-07:00On Traditional Muzzleloading, I am the Bourgeois o...On Traditional Muzzleloading, I am the Bourgeois of a Group of over 250 reenactors/shooters, and very few of them are in the NMLRA. There is no correlation between a decline in NMLRA membership and traditional shooters. Quite frankly, the vast majority of traditional shooters have very hard feelings about the NMLRA and they way they have moved so much to the in-lines. There was also some major Peteyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10857775102210231143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-39884721336879412362008-12-23T19:16:00.000-07:002008-12-23T19:16:00.000-07:00Hey, just to pick a nit or two...Reference an earl...Hey, just to pick a nit or two...<BR/>Reference an early Bond film (Dr. No, From Russia w/Love ?) Q quote ( or close to it): "Walther PPK, 7.65mm, hits like a brick through a plate glass window." Bond (Sean Connery - later trecherous) gives up his .25 Beretta.<BR/>Silencer(supressor)?<BR/>Really want to see LaRocca's work...cheers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-36560498318843607682008-12-23T10:29:00.000-07:002008-12-23T10:29:00.000-07:00I disagree. The Lewis & Clark bicentennial wa...I disagree. The Lewis & Clark bicentennial was not a big event. The Civil War? East of the Rockies, you can't escape it. Have a look at the number of books published on the two subjects. The Great Unpleasantness Between The States is a perennial best-seller.<BR/><BR/>Interest will be higher than a kite. The real question is whether or not it can be successfully exploited.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-41143535739921642952008-12-23T08:48:00.000-07:002008-12-23T08:48:00.000-07:00Mike MTraditional muzzleloading is on the ropes an...Mike M<BR/><BR/>Traditional muzzleloading is on the ropes and has been for some time. <BR/><BR/>The Lewis and Clark anniversary was also supposed to be a great celebration but proved a big dud. I can't see the CW anniversary causing a boom in muzzleloading as it did in the 1960s.<BR/><BR/>There will always be a small core group of traditional muzzleloaders but I predict interest will continue toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-27412549353032873682008-12-23T08:32:00.000-07:002008-12-23T08:32:00.000-07:00I'll add a fourth comment.Dig into the unusual.Fir...I'll add a fourth comment.<BR/><BR/>Dig into the unusual.<BR/><BR/>Firearms-oriented TV programs are sliding into the rut that the firearms magazines are mired in...the same basic articles, about the same tired topics.<BR/><BR/>Go after the exotics. The evolution of the duelling pistol (contact the US International Muzzle-Loading Team for that one). Matchlock arms. Olympic target guns...from Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-62220255684790858892008-12-23T08:25:00.000-07:002008-12-23T08:25:00.000-07:00Three comments:First, I agree that there is room f...Three comments:<BR/><BR/>First, I agree that there is room for a hunting show about small game.<BR/><BR/>Second, I don't see traditional muzzle-loading as dying. Not when you have the 150th of the Civil War coming up in two years time. The real question is whether or not the NMLRA and the North-South Skirmish Association can exploit that interest and turn it into growth.<BR/><BR/>Third, I'd Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-90465956165082882392008-12-23T07:43:00.000-07:002008-12-23T07:43:00.000-07:00More hunting shows? Wow, just what the world needs...More hunting shows? Wow, just what the world needs. <BR/><BR/>Petey,<BR/><BR/>Sadly, traditional mussleloading has been slowly dying for some years now. Membership in the NMLRA has been in a slow downward decline for years. T/C now offers only its Hawken and Firstorm in traditional ignition systems. CVA dropped all the traditional guns. While there will always be a diehard group of muzzleloaders Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-32970632764192210702008-12-23T07:07:00.000-07:002008-12-23T07:07:00.000-07:00You might try a .50 BMG on that cape buffalo. It ...You might try a .50 BMG on that cape buffalo. It would attract more interest than some esoteric, African big game cartridge most people have scarcely heard of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-31293359717013837112008-12-23T06:43:00.000-07:002008-12-23T06:43:00.000-07:00Thank you for those thoughts and I agree that coul...Thank you for those thoughts and I agree that could help bridge the gap!! :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-72092117436552622372008-12-22T22:39:00.000-07:002008-12-22T22:39:00.000-07:00Sounds like some great stuff could be coming down ...Sounds like some great stuff could be coming down the pipe.<BR/><BR/>A handgun hunting show would be great. And like Anon said, showing squirrel and rabbit with handguns would be great. Personally, I have a .62 smoothbore flintlock pistol made by L.E. Williams of Early Rustic Arms that I WILL take tree rat and bunny with. <BR/><BR/>There's another idea, TRADITIONAL muzzleloading. Flintlocks, Peteyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10857775102210231143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-33446837779118285722008-12-22T21:24:00.000-07:002008-12-22T21:24:00.000-07:00Would love to see a handgun hunting show with an e...Would love to see a handgun hunting show with an episode about hunting squirrels/small game with a .22LR. Why every show feels the need to show deer/elk hunting when they aren't differentiating themselves in any way from their competition. Why would I want to watch something that is just like the other hunting show on. Show something that tha majority of people can actually step outside their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com