From the Shooting Wire
http://www.shootingwire.com/story/223195
August 27, 2010
American Women Win Gold, Silver At World Muzzle-Loading Championships
American women led the United States International Muzzle-Loading Team to victory at the twenty-fourth World Muzzle-Loading Championships.
Top honors went to Betty Peloquin, of Inverness, Florida, who swept to victory in the original division of the "Walkyrie" ladies' 100-meter prone rifle match. Shooting a percussion target rifle made over 150 years ago, her score of 95 gave Peloquin a 3-point lead over the silver medalist, a decisive win in by World Championship standards.
A silver medal was won by Shannon Boyce, of Norfolk, New York, in the replica division of the "Whitworth" prone percussion rifle event. Boyce's score of 99 was a scant point short of the world record, but she came 4.5mm short of gold in a tie-breaking measurement of the shot farthest from the center.
Nor were the American men unrepresented on the medal podium. Tim Thorne, of Bealsville, Maryland, conned his nearly 200-year-old flintlock rifle to a Bronze medal in the original division of the "Pennsylvania" 50 meter offhand flintlock rifle match. And a team of Thorne, Allen Godshalk, Frank Meyer, Larry Brockmiller, and Tom Warabak took 3rd in the "Grand Prix de Versailles" combined smoothbore and rifled musket aggregate.
The Championships, held 15-22 August in Fervenca, Portugal, represented the pinnacle of competition with muzzle-loading arms. 383 competitors, representing 24 countries, vied for top honors with original and replica black powder firearms. Over 30 events for rifles, pistols, and shotguns feature in the World Championships, with arms ranging from the matchlocks of the 16th century to the percussion target arms of the 19th century. Original and replica arms compete in separate categories.
The next World Muzzle-Loading Championships will be held in August 2012 in Pforzheim, Germany.
Other noteworthy American performances included:
Larry Brockmiller - 4th place in the original division of the "Minie" 100m prone rifle match.
Don Dixon - 6th place in the original division of the "Remington" revolver aggregate.
Michael McDaniel - 7th place in the "Mariette" replica 25m revolver match.
Frank Meyer - 7th place in the original division of the "Tanzutsu" matchlock pistol match.
Bob Peloquin - 8th place in the original division of the "Cominazzo" 25m flintlock pistol match.
Bob Pence - 5th place in the replica division of the "Manton" flintlock shotgun event.
Harry Sparks - 4th place in the original division of the "Manton" flintlock shotgun event.
Tom Warabak - 9th place in the original division of the "Minie" 100m prone rifle match.
Pam Wilcox - 6th place in the replica division of the "Manton" flintlock shotgun event.
Contact:
Michael McDaniel
HMSLion@aol.com or Michael.mcdaniel@navy.mil
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Dear EPA~ We Opposed the proposed lead ban
Well CRAP at least I sent my letter out LOL
EPA rejects antis claim.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/27/epa-rejects-calls-ban-lead-ammo-fishing-tackle/
Lisa P. Jackson
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 564-4700
Fax: (202) 501-1450
Email: jackson.lisa@epa
Re: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2010-0681 Lead ban for sporting use.
Ms. Jackson,
Any ban on “lead” ammunition will totally devastate the antique as well as the entire shooting community. Traditional firearms such as muzzle loaders, Civil War, antique cartridge relic’s & reproductions are designed to shoot lead bullets only, with no alloy jacket. A muzzleloader bullet or Roundball is designed to have a cloth patch wrapped around it which enables the bullet to engage the rifling in the bore to create spin.
The smoothbore musket has no rifling and a patch and sometimes a wad are used in combination.
A rifled Civil War era firearm shoots a plain conical bullet with a grease lubricant. The lubricant like the patch keeps the lead from stripping off into the rifling. I.E. like oil in your vehicle lubricates a bearing by creating a barrier between the two surfaces.
Some later variations of cartridge rifles use a paper patch as the barrier between the bullet and the bore. The purpose of soft lead and patching are designed to seal the burning gun powder gasses behind the projectile.
The soft lead, (as close to pure as we can get); help make this all possible.
While modern cartridge firearms may be able to shoot an alloy style bullet if available & practical, the original and reproduction muskets & rifles can not.
There is “not” a replacement metal for this portion of the shooting community as the petitioner’s state.
The shooting community by large has engaged the EPA’s “best management range practices” when and where ever possible by recycling spend lead and brass, cleaning up ranges and testing & treating soils.
The shooting community according to industry uses only a mere fraction of the lead produced.
In fact industry figures show that the sources and uses of lead in the United States to be 3.5 billion pounds smelted annually. Of that approximately 85 million pounds is used in bullet manufacturing which is 2.5 to 3% of the total lead produced. I’d like to remind the EPA that much of this ammunition is to support our military and is being expended in other countries as I write this letter.
Also a majority of states have already adopted lead fishing sinker limitations.
Lead acid batteries are the largest product of lead use.
I am 54 years old and have been shooting since the age of 5. I have reloaded, cast and fired ammunition on a weekly basis for most of those years. I am also a HVAC technician and a licenser power plant operator. I can say with utmost confidence that I’ve been exposed to more than my share of lead particles. In 2000 I had my blood checked and all toxic blood levels were well below the EPA & CDC standards. My physical this year also verified my blood levels were again below published thresholds.
My 3 adult children have not had any positive lead indications either. Many of my friends, some 30 years my senior have had no ill effects based on lead used.
• A 2008 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on blood lead levels of North Dakota hunters confirmed that consuming game harvested with traditional ammunition does not pose a human health risk.
With all I mentioned above our conclusion is to ask the EPA to throw out the proposed ban on all lead ammunitions and fishing lead products.
From my past experiences with the Center for Biological Diversity they are underhanded and self serving. There proposal is designed to out law lead & ammunition in an effort to ban shooting, hunting & fishing.
The religious philosophies of those who have signed on to the lead ban petition are animal right zealots who will stop at nothing to ban all the above mentioned legal activities. The agenda of the CBD will devastate the shooting community by shutting many, if not all of us down.
Financially the taxes derived from the shooting activities above will also impact the Federal and State wildlife programs. The state and Federal wildlife programs directly benefit from taxes collected on sporting ammunition & products. To the best of my knowledge the Center for Biological Diversity & there co-sponsors never donated a dime to actually help wildlife. Instead they run around the country suing the government in an effort to ban hunting, fishing, shooting & trapping.
My fellow members & I take it very personal when someone is out to end our lifestyle. We don’t collect a paycheck like the opposition does.
Again, we ask the EPA to throw out the proposed ban on all lead ammunitions and fishing lead products. There is “not” a replacement metal for this portion of the shooting community as the petitioner’s state.
We oppose the proposal to ban all lead in ammunition and fishing tackle as alternatives are not yet available to all shooting & fishing sports.
Regards,
Wm. J. Brookover
5336 Lincoln Rd
Ontario, NY. 14519
President
New York State Muzzleloaders Association
WWW.NYSMLA.ORG
blackpowderbill@yahoo.com
Here is a link to the EPA's web site Lead Ban
EPA rejects antis claim.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/27/epa-rejects-calls-ban-lead-ammo-fishing-tackle/
Lisa P. Jackson
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 564-4700
Fax: (202) 501-1450
Email: jackson.lisa@epa
Re: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2010-0681 Lead ban for sporting use.
Ms. Jackson,
Any ban on “lead” ammunition will totally devastate the antique as well as the entire shooting community. Traditional firearms such as muzzle loaders, Civil War, antique cartridge relic’s & reproductions are designed to shoot lead bullets only, with no alloy jacket. A muzzleloader bullet or Roundball is designed to have a cloth patch wrapped around it which enables the bullet to engage the rifling in the bore to create spin.
The smoothbore musket has no rifling and a patch and sometimes a wad are used in combination.
A rifled Civil War era firearm shoots a plain conical bullet with a grease lubricant. The lubricant like the patch keeps the lead from stripping off into the rifling. I.E. like oil in your vehicle lubricates a bearing by creating a barrier between the two surfaces.
Some later variations of cartridge rifles use a paper patch as the barrier between the bullet and the bore. The purpose of soft lead and patching are designed to seal the burning gun powder gasses behind the projectile.
The soft lead, (as close to pure as we can get); help make this all possible.
While modern cartridge firearms may be able to shoot an alloy style bullet if available & practical, the original and reproduction muskets & rifles can not.
There is “not” a replacement metal for this portion of the shooting community as the petitioner’s state.
The shooting community by large has engaged the EPA’s “best management range practices” when and where ever possible by recycling spend lead and brass, cleaning up ranges and testing & treating soils.
The shooting community according to industry uses only a mere fraction of the lead produced.
In fact industry figures show that the sources and uses of lead in the United States to be 3.5 billion pounds smelted annually. Of that approximately 85 million pounds is used in bullet manufacturing which is 2.5 to 3% of the total lead produced. I’d like to remind the EPA that much of this ammunition is to support our military and is being expended in other countries as I write this letter.
Also a majority of states have already adopted lead fishing sinker limitations.
Lead acid batteries are the largest product of lead use.
I am 54 years old and have been shooting since the age of 5. I have reloaded, cast and fired ammunition on a weekly basis for most of those years. I am also a HVAC technician and a licenser power plant operator. I can say with utmost confidence that I’ve been exposed to more than my share of lead particles. In 2000 I had my blood checked and all toxic blood levels were well below the EPA & CDC standards. My physical this year also verified my blood levels were again below published thresholds.
My 3 adult children have not had any positive lead indications either. Many of my friends, some 30 years my senior have had no ill effects based on lead used.
• A 2008 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on blood lead levels of North Dakota hunters confirmed that consuming game harvested with traditional ammunition does not pose a human health risk.
With all I mentioned above our conclusion is to ask the EPA to throw out the proposed ban on all lead ammunitions and fishing lead products.
From my past experiences with the Center for Biological Diversity they are underhanded and self serving. There proposal is designed to out law lead & ammunition in an effort to ban shooting, hunting & fishing.
The religious philosophies of those who have signed on to the lead ban petition are animal right zealots who will stop at nothing to ban all the above mentioned legal activities. The agenda of the CBD will devastate the shooting community by shutting many, if not all of us down.
Financially the taxes derived from the shooting activities above will also impact the Federal and State wildlife programs. The state and Federal wildlife programs directly benefit from taxes collected on sporting ammunition & products. To the best of my knowledge the Center for Biological Diversity & there co-sponsors never donated a dime to actually help wildlife. Instead they run around the country suing the government in an effort to ban hunting, fishing, shooting & trapping.
My fellow members & I take it very personal when someone is out to end our lifestyle. We don’t collect a paycheck like the opposition does.
Again, we ask the EPA to throw out the proposed ban on all lead ammunitions and fishing lead products. There is “not” a replacement metal for this portion of the shooting community as the petitioner’s state.
We oppose the proposal to ban all lead in ammunition and fishing tackle as alternatives are not yet available to all shooting & fishing sports.
Regards,
Wm. J. Brookover
5336 Lincoln Rd
Ontario, NY. 14519
President
New York State Muzzleloaders Association
WWW.NYSMLA.ORG
blackpowderbill@yahoo.com
Here is a link to the EPA's web site Lead Ban
Friday, August 27, 2010
Kenyon's Camelot
Oh yea and the family of Kenyon's Camelot is enjoying their 6th vacation of the year. That's ah~ one vacation for every 1.4 months of community service in 2010.
What a difference a decade makes at the State Fair. New rides, new games and new exhibits. And as our Bill Carey reports, for Gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio, a new-found love for the sausage sandwich. Rick could have went to the Yates SCOPE pig roast. Oh crap how silly of me~ then he would have had to have seen Palidino face to face.
Humm no mention of the embezzled money. So I will.
A former director of the New York State Fair used state resources to help put on weddings for his two daughters, and also gave away more than $700,000 worth of free fair and concert tickets to politicians, employees and other officials, an investigation by the New York State inspector general found. The report also said that the former director, Peter Cappuccilli Jr., paid more than $800,000 in salary to families and friends of employees.
What a difference a decade makes at the State Fair. New rides, new games and new exhibits. And as our Bill Carey reports, for Gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio, a new-found love for the sausage sandwich. Rick could have went to the Yates SCOPE pig roast. Oh crap how silly of me~ then he would have had to have seen Palidino face to face.
Humm no mention of the embezzled money. So I will.
A former director of the New York State Fair used state resources to help put on weddings for his two daughters, and also gave away more than $700,000 worth of free fair and concert tickets to politicians, employees and other officials, an investigation by the New York State inspector general found. The report also said that the former director, Peter Cappuccilli Jr., paid more than $800,000 in salary to families and friends of employees.
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