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Muzzle Loaders Association of Great Britain

The MLAGB was formed in 1952
and is the Governing Body for muzzle loading within the UK.
Its objectives are to encourage an interest in muzzle loading firearms;
to promote, regulate and safeguard their use;
and to preserve their freedom of collection.

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Black Powder

The Quarterly Magazine of the MLAGB

		Spring 2013 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Battle for Jersey Commemoration Calendar of Events Annual General Meeting 2013 Agenda Annual General Meeting 2012 Minutes Shotgun News Rifle News Pistol News British Shooting Sports Council The Great Northern Enfield Match - 2012 Rifle Guns (October 1859) The Kerr Rifle Project Cooper or Underhammer Type Pepperboxes				An American B & S Pistol Notes from the Sale Room Readers' Letters Branch News
		Winter 2012 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Calendar of Events Obituary Pistol News Rifle News Rifle & Musket Record Scores Shotgun News Game Fair News British Shooting Sports Council Entente Cordiale, Chinon, France - May 2012 MLAIC World Championships, Pforzheim 2012 19thC French Powder Flasks and Shot Pouches 19th Century Riflemen				Mechanical Advantage Reader's Letters The Mapping of India Book News Collectors' Corner Notes From the Sale Room Branch News
		Autumn 2012 Chairman's Notes Calendar of Events Smoke Signals Obituary Shotgun News Pistol News Rifle News British Shooting Sports Council 150th Anniversary of the Elcho Shield Match Yorkshire Game Fair A Swedish Bess Horatio Ross Samuel Pepys' Diary Reader's Letters				Shooting the Flintlock Pistol Competitively A Japanese Monkey Tail? Pistol Duelling in New Zealand Guns For Sale Faversham Gunpowder Mills Readers' Letters Collectors' Corner Notes From the Sale Room Branch News
		Summer 2012 Chairman's Notes Calendar of Events Smoke Signals Obituary Pistol News Shotgun News Rifle News British Shooting Sports Council Legacy of the Civil War - Breech Loading Arms Silent History Reader's Letters J. Farmer & S. Galton: 18thC Gunmaking Common Sense and Gunpowder Collectors' Corner				Notes From the Sale Room Branch News
		Spring 2012 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Calendar of Events Pistol News Rifle News Shotgun News Annual General Meeting minutes 2011 Annual General Meeting agenda 2012 British Shooting Sports Council Reader's Letters A Concession to the Past Cavanagh the Dublin Gunmakers Matched Pairs - Powder Flasks Silent History				Making Springs Book News Collectors' Corner Notes From the Sale Room Branch News
		Winter 2011 The President's Address Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Obituary Calendar of Events Shotgun News Pistol News Rifle News Rifle & Musket Record Scores British Shooting Sports Council Entente Cordiale Match, Bisley 14th European Championships, Finland 8th Long Range World Championships, Bisley Building A Model Cannon				Smoking Is Good For You Ferguson and his Rifle Come to America James Walker's Powder Barrels Book News Collectors' Corner Notes From the Sale Room Branch News
		Autumn 2011 Chairman's Notes Calendar of Events Smoke Signals Obituary British Shooting Sports Council Shotgun News St. Fagans: National History Museum Closure of Colt's London Factory An Unusual Percussion Pocket Pistol Hay 1858 Pattern Enfield Rifle A Grantham Volunteer Prize Rifle Reader's Letters For A Few Squirrels More Forging A Hook On A Spring				Collector's Corner Notes From the Sale Room Branch News
		Summer 2011 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Game Fair News 8th Long Range World Championships (Preview) Calendar of Events Rifle News Pistol News Shotgun News British Shooting Sports Council Reader's Letters Cannon Shooting In The Netherlands An Unearthed Colt Revolver Vandalism or Veneration? We Don't Always Have The Answer				'Pickets' versus Bullets A Gunmakers Tools and Supplies: 1739, 1797 Making Springs
		Spring 2011 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Calendar of Events Obituary Reader's Letters Annual General Meeting 2011 Shotgun News Pistol News British Shooting Sports Council An Accident Waiting to Happen Book News A Christmas Cracker More Thoughts on Casting Long Range Rifle Fire				A Napoleonic Powder Horn A Philadelphia Percussion Pistol Public Auctions at The Tower of London Collector's Corner Notes From the Sale Room Branch News
		Winter 2010 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Calendar of Events Pistol News 6th MLAGB Scottish Pistol Competition Shotgun News Rifle News Rifle & Musket Record Scores The International Scene British Shooting Sports Council 24th MLAIC World Championships Match Shooting With The Enfield Rifle The Hilscher Story - Part 2 Manhattan Fire Arms Manufacturing Company				Silent History A Philadelphia Long Rifle Collector's Corner Book News Reader's Letters Branch News
		Autumn 2010 Chairman's Notes Calendar of Events Smoke Signals Obituary Pistol News Shotgun News British Shooting Sports Council Readers' Letters 3rd Yorkshire Game & Country Fair The Spirit of the Age! Range Finder Entente Cordiale 2010 Colt, The Early Years The Hilscher Story - Part 1				Silent History Making Springs for Flintlock or Percussion Lock Collector's Corner Notes from the Sale Room Branch News
		Summer 2010 Chairman's Notes President's Address to the 2010 AGM Smoke Signals Obituary Calendar of Events Rifle News Pistol News Shotgun News British Shooting Sports Council Back to the Future - Shooting on Jersey All the Fun of the Fair Silent History Beyond Logan: The Underhammer Pistol Gunmaker's Hollow Mills				Two Late and Well Travelled Flasks Manhattan Percussion Revolvers The Brown Bess Book News Readers' Letters Collectors' Corner Notes From the Sale Room Branch News
		Spring 2010 Chairman's Notes President's Notes Calendar of Events Smoke Signals Annual General Meeting 2010 Obituary Shotgun News Rifle News The International Scene British Shooting Sports Council Range Finder The International Living History Fair Readers' Letters Joshua Jenour's Shot Cartridge Eley's Patent Wire Cartridge				Even More on Casting Don't Lose Your Temper (Making Spings) A Fistful of Squirrels A Breadalbane Prize Rifle Manufacture of the Copper Percussion Cap Book News Collectors' Corner Notes From the Sale Room Branch News
		Winter 2009 Chairman's Notes Calendar of Events Smoke Signals Shotgun News Pistol News Rifle News Rifle & Musket Record Scores Postal Notes The International Scene British Shooting Sports Council 5th MLAGB Scottish Pistol Championships 7th MLAIC World Long Range Championships 13th MLAIC European Championships The Origins of International Muzzle Loading				English Revolver Bore Sizes Book Reviews Readers' Letters Collectors' Corner Brunel's Polygonal Rifle Notes from the Sale Room Branch News
		Autumn 2009 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Calendar of Events Rifle News Shotgun News Pistol News British Shooting Sports Council Mapledurham Have A Go Stand Game Fair "Have A Go" Stands Royal Cornwall Show 42nd Entente Cordiale Rifle Match Championnat de France 2009 Hammer Springs for Percussion Revolvers Further Thoughts on Casting				Do Not Let Your Servants Near Your Gun Powder Black Powder Magazine History 1851 Adams Chamber Dimensions Readers' Letters Collectors' Corner British Pathe Notes from the Sale Room Branch News
		Summer 2009 Chairman's Notes Calendar of Events Smoke Signals Shotgun News Pistol News British Shooting Sports Council British Shooting Show, February 2009 The Worshipful Company of Gunmakers Last of the "Tower", Bagot Street, Birmingham The M1863 Sharps The Goodwin's Orthoptic Sight US Navy Elgin Cutlass Pistol An Accident Waiting to Happen? Charles Reeves and His Revolvers				Miniature Firearms of Norman Johnson Hawkes & John Blanch Junior The Holtzapffel Company Colt/Remington Trigger Springs Collectors' Corner Book Review Notes from the Sale Room Readers' Letters A Muzzle Loading Misunderstanding Branch News
		Spring 2009 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Calendar of Events Annual General Meeting 2009 Annual General Meeting 2008 Rifle News Shotgun News The International Scene Postal News British Shooting Sports Council Shooting English Revolvers Powder Flask with Royal Connections Making Springs For Old Guns Screw Threads				What is an Authentic Matchlock? Spring Quiz Reader's Letters A String of Shots A Rifle by Royland Southgate The Goodwin's Orthoptic Sight Rifle Sights The Illicit Jokers Club MLAGB ... The Early Years Gun Making Tools Collector's Corner Notes from the Sale Room Branch News
		Winter 2008 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Calendar of Events Pistol News Shotgun News Rifle News Rifle & Musket Record Scores The International Scene British Shooting Sports Council Readers' Letters Christmas Quiz MLAIC World Championships Report Screw Threads Lessons in Lubrication				2 Bore Rifle Squirrel Shoot II Reeves Revolvers Notes & Queries Collectors' Corner Notes from the Sale Room Branch News
		Autumn 2008 Chairman's Notes Calendar of Events Smoke Signals Club House News Rifle News Pistol News Shotgun News Postal Competition News British Shooting Sports Council A Singular Attempt At Suicide 1st Yorkshire Game & Country Fair Monmouth Country Show/Pandy Show A Muzzle Loading Squirrel Shoot The Cannon Igniter				Casting for the Muzzle Loader A Windsor Enfield Saltpetre in Medieval Gunpowder Broken Frizzen Spring Notes & Queries Collectors' Corner European Arms Collectors English Flintlock Pistols Notes from the Sale Room Branch News
		Summer 2008 Chairman's Notes Calendar of Events Smoke Signals Obituaries British Shooting Sports Council Club House News Shotgun News Pistol News Rifle News Entente Cordiale Rifle Match 2008 Warwick Branch Make a Stand Readers' Letters Notes & Queries Casting for the Muzzle Loader				New to Competition? My Matchlock Pistol J.R.'s Pistol A Japanese Musket in the Sakai Style Ezekiel Baker Isaac Riviere and the Lockless Gun Observation on a Curious Belgian Chadburn's Distance Gauge Collectors' Corner Notes from the Sale Room Branch News
		Spring 2008 Chairman's Notes Your Council of Management Smoke Signals Calendar of Events Annual General Meeting 2008 Annual General Meeting 2007 Club House News The International Scene Pistol News Rifle News Shotgun News British Shooting Sports Council Range Finder Sir Joseph Whitworth				Flintlock Pocket Pistols The Headless River Expedition Muzzle Loading Hunting in the USA Today The School of Musketry, Hythe Readers' Letters Collectors' Corner Notes from the Sale Room Sergeant Bates Branch News Obituary
		Winter 2007 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Range Finder Club House News Postal Notes Shotgun News Rifle News Rifle & Musket Record Scores Pistol News The International Scene British Shooting Sports Council European Championships, Italy World Long Range Championships, South Africa Grand Prix de Versailles				Pistol Marksmanship Readers' Letters Resources of Modern Warfare - Small Fire-Arms Hythe School of Musketry The Enfield Registration Society Ammunition Boxes at Isandlwana Casting for the Muzzle Loader Collectors' Corner Notes from the Sale Room Branch News Autumn National Clay Shoot Vintage Rally/Pandy Show
		Autumn 2007 Chairman's Notes The Wind of Change? Smoke Signals British Shooting Sports Council Liability Cover For Members Obituaries Range Finder Club House News Pistol News Rifle News North of England Championships BASC and ACPO Seminar Laser Sights Chalons - The Camp				A Surrey Yeomanry Rifle? Casting for the Muzzle Loader Charcoal and Gunpowder Manufacture More Verniers, Ventometers and Wind Gauges Readers' Letters Not a Trap Gun Black Bear Hunting Fire Collectors' Corner A Poacher's Gun - Revisited Notes & Queries Notes from the Sale Room Branch News
		Summer 2007 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals Obituaries Club House News Rifle News Pistol News Shotgun News British Shooting Sports Council Readers' Letters Pembrokeshire ML Pistol Championships Trafalgar ML 21st Anniversary 19th Souppes Sur Loing Tom Readhead : Pistol Coaching Enfield Rifle Shooting				Christmas Challenge - Answers Book Review A Poacher's Gun? Notes & Queries Revolver Origins Two-Grooved, Brunswick Rifle A Surrey Rifle Volunteer's Rifle Murcott's Vernier A Trap Gun Hale's Patent Shotgun Akrills of Beverly Collectors' Corner Notes from the Sale Room Branch News
		Spring 2007 Chairman's Notes Smoke Signals 2006 AGM Minutes Range Finder 2007 AGM Agenda Obituary - Margot Bell Pistol News The International Scene Rifle News Shotgun News Postal Notes British Shooting Sports Council Long Range Muzzle Loading The Pin Fire Shotgun				Isuthu Readers' Letters Goal Setting Deane-Harding Percussion Revolvers Notes & Queries Collectors' Corner Notes from the Sale Room Branch News