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Gunmaker Greg S. Murry’s first reproduction (top) of the initial Crockett rifle brought to him (second from top), with two other original Crockett rifles.
Late one afternoon in 2015, Greg S. Murry, a black-powder rifle maker in Columbia, Tennessee, crouched over his workshop bench and tapped a drift punch with a hammer. Pins more than two hundred years old fell out of the forestock of an American muzzle-loading long rifle. Murry’s hands were shaking.
By his side stood the gun’s owner, a woman descended from Samuel Crockett III, who with his son Andrew operated a highly acclaimed gunmaking business at Forge Seat, the family home south of Nashville, from the estate’s inception in 1808 until 1826. Those Crocketts were kin to the famed Davy Crockett, and soldiers had used their rifles in the Battle of New Orleans. “Really, only the family knew that these rifles existed and had survived,” Murry says.
This Week on Shooting USA – Hornady Precision Hunter Challenge Ammoland Inc. Posted on
Hornady Precision Hunting Challenge
Nashville, TN -(AmmoLand.com)- The challenge is for precision rifle shooters at distances only possible in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, with steel targets sized to simulate the vitals of western game animals. Plus, new hunting choices in ammo and firearms.
The National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association welcomes today’s modern in-line muzzleloaders to test their skill in long-range hunting competition.
Byron Ferguson has an Impossible Shot. And a Pro Tip from the Army Marksmanship Unit for hunters on Point Blank Zero.
This Week on Shooting USA – Hornady Precision Hunter Challenge Ammoland Inc. Posted on
Hornady Precision Hunter Challenge
Nashville, TN -(AmmoLand.com)- The challenge is for precision rifle shooters at distances only possible in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, with steel targets sized to simulate the vitals of western game animals.
Plus, new hunting choices in ammo and firearms.
And the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association welcomes today’s modern in-line muzzleloaders to test their skill in long-range hunting competition.
Byron Ferguson has an Impossible Shot you’ve never seen.
And a Pro Tip from the Army Marksmanship Unit for hunters on Point Blank Zero.