This month we officially kick off the 2021 Gunmaker’s Hall Giveaway. Every year Gunmaker’s Hall sells tickets for a drawing to raise money for Gunmaker’s Hall and the NMLRA. The drawing includes the Incentive Gun, this is a handmade flintlock long arm typically crafted by a new up and coming gunmaker.
Well, here it is winter already. Is it cold there? It has been around freezing here, below freezing at night. I’ve been working on the Americans with Disabilities Act rifle project. This is a flintlock muzzle loading rifle, shooting bag, powder horn, hard case and accoutrements that will be given away as one prize, to raise money for building the ADA compliant restrooms at the Walter Cline range in Friendship Indiana.
Brett is part of a talented team working to create wonderful contemporary works to assist the NMLRA in building an ADA compliant restroom at their Friendship, Indiana facility. To read more about this project, visit NMLRA.org/gunmakershall
Our American with Disabilities Act project is working hard towards building a rifle and complete set of accoutrements to raise money for building ADA compliant restrooms at the Walter Cline range. Mike Miller, Dennis Priddy, Larry Horrigan, Dick Miller, John Kleihege, Bart Copenhaver, Bill Hoover and I are building the rifle. The Honorable Company of Horners is making a powder horn, Jeff Luke is making a shooting bag, Ron Lowell is crafting a banded priming horn, Larry Callahan is hand making a ball mold and a tow worm, John Cummings is forging one of his signature knives. Look to Muzzle Blasts and the NMLRA. org website for details on how you can purchase tickets to win this once in a lifetime prize.
As I write this the governor of Indiana has closed down the state due to the COVID-19 virus. Many businesses are closed. Schools are closed. Right now, we are at home, doing our civic duty to prevent the spread of this terrible virus. This is scary stuff. Without my faith in God even I’d be nervous.
