Muzzleloading News June 2021

This week the muzzleloading community was dealt the real blow. Bill Raby's Youtube Channel was suspended. Bill shared on the American long rifles forum that every single one of his two hundred traditional muzzleloader building videos had been taken off of you tube and he had been served a two week suspension.

Bill has appealed this decision and youtube has allowed for twenty-six of his two hundred videos to stay up, but I think justifiably, Bill is looking at moving away from you tube as soon as this suspension is up here in the next week. Bill has said that he's going to be transitioning his two hundred videos over to the video-sharing platform Rumble it's going to take a little bit of time to get caught up on that huge backlog though he says that rumbles a little slow and with two hundred videos.

Bill’s videos, I think, are some of the best contemporary videos out there I mean two hundred videos, I think, to build a single Muzzleloader. Super thorough videos, super helpful videos for anybody interested in getting away from the kits and starting to build some of their own muzzleloaders from a blank, It's a real blow to the community here.

That being said, all of the I love muzzling videos are going to be backed up on Odysee.com. Odysee is another video sharing platform that is set up with LBRY’s blockchain. So it's set up that, no matter what platform you use as long as they use the LBRY blockchain, it's all secure and can't be totally removed from the Internet like it is. If you uploading only to youtube.

I think for anybody that shoots modern, muzzleloaders we’re starting to see Hodgdon branded BLACKHORN 209 bottles appearing in stores this week. In the CVA shooters facebook group, a photo was shared of an order of black horn that came in with the Hodgdon logo on it, which pretty much confirms. I think, for me at least that Hodgdon is shipping and is distributing Blackhorn 209.

This isn't any reserve stock left over from when Western powders owned the powder in the brand. This is definitely something new, not necessarily new, as far as recipe goes, but new as in this is a new bottle that has been recently produced and Hodgdon is keeping up with their promise to deliver BlackHorn 209, as well as there are other modern black powder substitutes, to shooters in time for the competitive season for 2021 as well as the hunting season coming up.

A lot of the states out west are revealing their draw results and so shooters are getting their supplies around and Black Horn 209 was one of the key things that nobody was able to find. We’re starting to see some primers coming in and we're starting now to see this Hodgdon branded black horn 209 which is fantastic news. It’s been a rough year, and I know shooters and Hodgdon were frustrated, but we’re moving forward and getting back to shooting.

In good news as well we're starting to see other modern muzzleloading supplies coming into stock now around the country. Mainly, this photo in Maryland shows a pretty well stock store with modern muzzleloading supplies from modern muzzleloader projectiles with sabots and things to some of the IMR white hots and Hodgden black powder substitute products.

Hopefully, these manufacturers start to see the increased demand that we have for their products over the last year with a bunch of people getting interested in muzzleloading and they try to bump up the manufacturing on all this.

This week, we finally got our first look at the new Knight Prergrine rifle. This is Knight’s new long-range, muzzle loader. Enthusiasts got a little worried after the June first launch state, where we didn't see a whole lot of details about the Knight Peregrine, but now, a couple of weeks later, we are now seeing our first look at it and it does look good.

Fans of Knight aren't going to see a whole lot of differences between this and some of the other rifles, but in a way that's a really good thing. Knight hasn't gone back to the drawing board. They aren't trying to reinvent the wheel here. They say they're, saying: Look, we have a platform, we know it performs. We have the championships to prove it and we're just going to build a smaller caliber heavy hitter, just like we always have.

So it's good that we're getting a little bit of a pre-order, crumb there, knowing that they're going to be opened up soon, but we still don't have a whole lot of other details, at least officially in this post or officially on their website about this Knight. Representatives have been fielding questions online and on the forums quite a bit over the last couple of weeks since that June first launch date, explaining that this is going to function. A lot like the Knight Mountaineer a lot like the Knight 500, similar chasse technology faster twist right, we're looking at, I think, a 1:16 twist. This has not been confirmed, though.

I think in December, January of next year, we're going to be looking back on 2021 as the year of the forty caliber extreme long-range muzzler now with night revealing these pictures we have, we know we have the Paramount HTR coming out at some point here as well. So it's now coming down to a race, I think, between both of these companies to see who can get their muzzlers out first, so hunters preparing for the 2021 fall hunting season can get them, get them tested, and get them ready for their hunts. So it's going to be interesting to see what happens here as we head towards fall.

Learn more about the Knight Peregrine at Muzzleloaders.com

Wrapping up for this week, we've gotten word that the Rock Island Auction Company has been updating its catalog for the September 2021 Premier auction. I think particularly of interest coming up with this is some of these super early European muzzleloaders that they already have cataloged, there's some fantastic wheellocks, matchlocks, and things.

I think the artistic style of these is what's really going to set him part from some of the auctions, especially the May premier and the auctions that they had last year and any auction really previously. These are some exquisite European muzzle orders that I think really represent kind of peak artistry when it comes to the muzzleloading world, so check out the Rock Island Auction Company on social media they're going to be posting photos because they already have been they're going to be posting a ton of photos leading up to the September auction.

If there's a muzzleloading new story that you think we should be reporting on, please let us know down the comments or contact us at Ilovemuzzleloading (at) Gmail, I'd be happy to add it to the roster for the next muzzle loading news video.