Gemmer Muzzle Loading Gun Club
"Keep Your Powder Dry"
Gemmer Activities that are in addition to the normally scheduled monthly matches. These are open to club members and guest of club members unless the event is specifically a Public Event. Our family picnic, board meetings, meat shoots and archery matches will appear here.
We had a great time at the Gemmer Archery Match today. We shot traditional, recurve, compound and cross bows as well as a atlatl (spear throwing device). Thank you Jim Feeney for setting up this event and we look forward to the next one!
On Wednesday, April 24, 2024, Bob Browner donated the Hawken rifle he built to the State of Missouri. The rifle will be displayed at the Missouri Capital Museum for all to see. On August 2023 the Hawken rifle was named the official state rifle for Missouri. Next time you’re driving through Jefferson City, Missouri stop in at the capital museum at see this rifle. Seeing the important role that the Hawken rifle played in the westward movement and the mountain man is why the Hawken was named the Missouri State Rifle.
Representatives Doug Clemens and Mazzie Christensen hosted this event.
Paul Fennewald took this video of the ceremony and provided it to me to share below:
https://youtu.be/Y1-CkW-EoEQ?si=26ddxiZXvvSC3NAF
The video is about 12 minutes long with pictures of the rifle during the build process as well as photos taken while the bill was presented to the Missouri Congress.
The pictures above were provided by Greg Grimes.
Thank you to the members that assisted this month with cleaning up the fence between the clubs property and the conservation area. Many trees and limbs were on the fence and there are still repairs that need to be made. At least now we can walk the fence and make these repairs.
We also cleaned up the range area itself and put fresh cardboard on the targets that needed it. The step between the lower area and the shooting deck was also prepared for painting to make it more visible. It was too wet to paint on Saturday, but this will be done soon.
Thank you again to everyone that regularly works to keep our range and property nice and usable. If you go out and work on a project on a non club workday, be sure to send Brad Dickinson a message letting him know the date and work that you did to receive credit for a workday. Workdays consist of 2-4 hours of work at the range.
