Category: Events

Looking for a place to competitively shoot muzzle loaders during the Winter? Old Farm Shooters has bench matches every Sunday October to April. Practice starts about noon and match starts at 2pm.

Address: 3826 MO-89, Linn, MO 65051
About 35 miles past Stony Hill Gun Club

1st Sundays of the month Oct to April – Light Bench muzzleloader match, 14 lbs and under. 3 shot match, 2 practice shots. Practice before 2pm. Scoring targets placed at 2pm. Meat prizes. $10 entry fee.

All the rest of the Sundays are Heavy Bench Gun Matches. 3 shot match, 2 practice shots. 2pm start time. Practice noon till 2pm. Meat prizes. $10 entry fee.

Here is their description of the matches:

“Our club is open to anyone who want to shoot a muzzleloader of any kind as long as it has open sights, no peep sights, we shoot starting in October – April, on the first Sunday of the month we shot small offhand muzzleloader 14 lbs and under, the rest of the Sunday’s we shoot bench (chunk guns) shooting off of sand bags in the front with no sand bags on the rear, must be held to the shoulder, our shoots are all currently meat shoots, practice all you want until 2pm that when scoring starts, each shooter will get 2 adjustment shoots, before actual shots are counted (scored) our targets are at 60 yards, a white 3″ bullseye nailed to a wood block with tar paper background.
Our insurance policy at the club, new shooters are required to sign a insurance waiver before any shooting takes place.
We usally have around 30 shooters at any of our shoots.” – Russel Samsen

What a beautiful Fall weekend for our event! Mike Briscoe setup our range and woods with 21 shooting target stations with distances ranging from 15-50 yards. These are mostly steel targets but they are Rendezvous style targets that include clay birds, splitting a round ball on an axe blade, shooting from a saddle, shooting through a window, and many more. Mike has done a wonderful job putting together great targets and setting up a very fun event. You do not need to be a Gemmer club member to participate, but just an invitation from a Gemmer club member. Camping is optional. Primitive and modern campers allowed. Congratulations to Darren Heaton for winning the match with 24 points, only missing 2 targets. Great shooting!

Rules:

Rifles or smoothbores, with percussion or flintlocks, are allowed. You will need to shoot a maximum of 25 round balls to complete this match. Loading from a pouch is required because you will be walking from station to station with no loading benches.

Cost:

$25 blanket prize is the cost to participate.

Schedule:

Friday Morning: Camp Setup

Friday Afternoon 2pm to 5pm: Clay Bird Shooting

Saturday 9am – 3pm: Woods Walk Line is Open. Takes about 2 hours to shoot and can start anytime during this period.

Saturday 5pm: Blanket Prizes and Scores given out.

Sunday Morning: Camp Breakdown

Scores:

1st: Darren Heaton – 24

2nd: Mike Briscoe – 23

3rd: Ron Lawrence – 22

4th: Bob Coffelt – 20

5th: Grant Metzler – 18

6th: Bob Vogt – 18

7th: Glenn Baer – 17

8th: Fred Engelhard – 16

9th: Dean Hahn – 16

10th: Dean Venardos – 13

11th: David Brandenburger – 13

12th: Jim Feeney – 12

Bryan Johnson – Didn’t Shoot