McKinley Mountainmen Muzzle Loading Rifle Club

Events

2026 AK Territorials June 25th – 28th at Matvalley Sportmans Range, Palmer AK

2026 AK State Rendezvous

2025 AK Territorials

When the dust had settled, 6 shooters, 3.5 days and 45 aggregates shot!
  • Fire in the hole!
  • Steady and true
  • Ready, Aim, Fire!
  • Does Jeff have any eyebrows anymore?
  • Smokepole goes boom
  • Anyone think that fire could be distracting?
  • What is next?
  • The famous pocket stance
  • The gangs all here
  • powder, patch, ball….
  • I finally get to give away a 50 patch for a perfect target to Tim Evers!
  • I believe that crow is dead
  • More bits and a deadly pistol
  • What do you think Paul?
  • Where is your rifle Mike?

It is really hard to choose what to write about for the territorial matches. Perhaps some of the other members can send me some thoughts that I can add of what they remembered most of the 4 days we spent shooting? The weather was a perfect overcast 50-60 degrees for most of the days and we never had any rain. We shot a whopping 45 aggregates and 172 matches, way to go guys. Shooting at the range this year definitely had some advantages but there was a loss of the camping and sharing around the fire after the shoots. It was really great to have all our gear right there at hand and a toilet that is not filled with ravenous mosquitoes is nice too. We did have a loss though on the last day we learned that one of our members had passed during the night after leaving our shoot on the first day complaining of feeling sick. This was not expected and you will be missed Horn.

1,000 Point Pistol Match 2026

Every year we gather together to shoot the 1,000 point pistol match. This is the event that NMLRA uses to determine shooter classes for national events which is another reason that I should practice more. Oh well, missed again but by 20 points this year so I really need to practice at 50 yards before we shoot this event.

It was a small group this year with a gun show, daughters needing to get gear home from college and a couple of other events with Cowboys Wild Bunch group and SASS group taking a couple of our regular pistol shooters away. We had 4 shooters again with 2 new and 2 old. I left the scores from 2025 as a reference to Tim and Steve. Tim had a tough time with his flintlock and Augustus did not even attempt to shoot a LTF as it was only firing about 20% of times the trigger was pulled.