BLACK POWDER
Members of the Evergreen Troublemakers team pose for a moment during an annual multi-club muzzleloading competition held in Washington state.
4-CLUB MATCH 'SIMPLY A LOT OF FUN' Annual muzzleloading competition a chance to win unique trophy, enjoy black powder camaraderie. STORY AND PHOTOS BY MIKE NESBITT
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he Quad-Club Match is an annual muzzleloading competition between four western Washington clubs: the Paul Bunyan Plainsmen, the Lynch Creek Longhunters, the Bremerton Brigade, and my club, the Evergreen Muzzleloaders. The structure of the Quad-Club Match is as follows. Each of the four
clubs sends a team of at least five shooters, and each club must bring a paper target of their choice. The only stipulation about those targets is that they have scoring rings or areas so that shooters can get a maximum of 50 points (plus X’s) with five shots. With those parameters, it is easy to see where a lot of variety can be expected. So let me review each target that we used in this edition of the match. THE FOUR TARGETS are all posted at just
25 yards. That reduces the walking and perhaps the necessity to change powder charges, but it doesn’t reduce the level of skill needed at all. For one thing, all shooting is done offhand and there are no technicalities such as rifle caliber or weight or perfections in the load that can really overcome the human element of shooting while standing on your hind legs. The target that the Evergreen Muzzleloaders brought to this match is one you’ve seen before in this magazine, americanshootingjournal.com 123
