Shooting USA - Creedmoor - 2009

This time it’s black powder, both muzzleloaders and cartridge guns, firing to preserve the famous competition from the past. It’s Creedmoor 135 years later and the famous guns from the period when thousands of spectators turned out to watch long range competition.
Try to Imagine, the New York state Legislature gives the NRA the money to buy the land and build a shooting range. Now, picture 5,000 cheering fans turning out to watch a long range shooting match. Hard to imagine? Well, it really happened nearly a century and a half ago, and today’s fans of the old rifles are now making sure that remarkable event lives on in spirit.
The year was 1874 and men with rifles had come to New York to compete on a shooting ground known as Creed’s Moor. A fledgling group of Americans taking up the challenge of the world’s best team, the Irish, at 800, 900 and 1000 yards. The outcome is etched in muzzle loading history.
The Americans won simply because the Irish cross-fired on the wrong target, and the American went up, and hit the bulls eye on his target to win the match.
Now that day is being relived on a range at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. It’s the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association’s Creedmoor re-enactment. Shooters who revere the 28-09-3long-range sport, and who can’t get enough of the smell of black powder, have come to ram lead down the barrel of a rifle and throw it at a target a half-mile away.
Unlike the original Creedmoor Matches, contested only with muzzle loaders, the NMLRA’s long-range match allows black powder cartridge rifles, too. So, there on the line beside the Whitworths and the Gibbs, you find Remington Rolling Blocks and legendary Sharps.
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[@johnnyholland8765]

That Rigby is worth a second mortgage...

[@jasonb1776]

Great to see a TV show like this. I wish there was something like it in the UK. A couple of small comments on some of the points made though; The implication was made in the programme that the British didn't want to adopt the Whitworth because they were still using Brown Bess muskets and fighting in that 'old style'. In fact, at that time the British were using and supplying the same Enfield Rifles that were slaughtering both sides in absolutely huge numbers in the US civil war. The minie bullet from an Enfield was proven to be sufficiently good to 800 yards and the need to complicate the supply chain with an additional rifle just wasn't there.
...and as for the 'aristocrats playing tennis at Wimbledon today'...what the aristocrats like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connor and Martina Navratolova! :-D
Other than that...I loved it!

[@acharyajamesoermannspeaker6563]

The S & W advertisement lacked the Oxford comma. What a shame. Excellent tips on mirage and wind, as well as the web site.

[@wilmamcdermott3065]

Love the sharps special long range from pedersoli

[@GereDJ2]

Jim, that's about the raspiest male voice I've ever heard. Notice I didn't say deep?

[@gibmelson7628]

hey friends, es ist falsch den lauf zu stützen, er muss frei schwingen können ... it is wrong to support the barrel, must swing freely, but: impressive video !! arround my home in bavaria we have only one shooting range with 100 meter distance, so i am the 100 meter quigley..😮😮 . i love your wild west and the black powder guns at this time. us is too far for me, 6000 kilometers and more, ohh😅