BP prizes for my annual shooting event.

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This will be the fifth annual "Cabin Fever" shoot that I have hosted at our farm. It is a bit of work, but my shed gets an annual spring cleaning, so it is good for me. We like to host, and shooting is my favorite hobby(obviously), so i am compelled to host an event. Lord knows that I have participated in many events where I picked up my gear and ran home to leave others to pick up the pieces.
I provide the targets and prizes at this shoot, so I am asking the BP forum what kind of prizes should I choose this year? Typically I give Rough Rider knives as prizes. Last year was Trappers.
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The knives go over good as prizes....and it has been my theme for 5yrs.
Would anyone have a suggestion for something different?
BP powder has been given as prizes by local clubs, but that has been done.
Any other ideas? We're looking to keep in below $100 for 4 prizes.
 
Four prizes at 25 bucks each...hmm... With a black powder theme too eh? Do the winners get to choose from the 4 prizes? Maybe a pound of 777 or BlackMZ (if u can find it) and some casting tools such as ladles and lead ingots, or some cleaning kits? Like them handy tube cleaning kits made from what seems to be billet aluminum. Its a handle that u screw the bottom off of and the cleaning rods and brushes come out and you attach it to the handle. They are pretty inexpensive and very handy...any black powder shooter can use a set. They look like a handle from one of them Rambo type survival knives with the bottom that screws off. I think some track of the wolves mink oil too or even some nipples? Maybe a few old hickory knives? Maybe each prize is like 5- 10 pounds of pure lead and a cleaning kit?
 
Keeping with a BP theme:
- If you want to stay with a knife but different, try a Mora fixed blade. They come very sharp, usually cost well under 25 bucks. The Mora Eldris model is very light, has a 2.2" blade, the sheath is very secure and could be used as a neck knife. Good to cut patches at the muzzle. Not traditional looking but useful.

- On Amazon, you can get a bag of Pro-Shot 1,000 precut cotton cleaning patches for under 20 dollars. BP shooters always need cleaning patches.

- Adjustable powder measures

Just some quick thoughts. It's darn nice of you to hold the shoot.

Jeff
 
Those look like fine gentlemen's types of pocket knives and I wouldn't change the prizes at all.
I'm sort of an amateur collector of relatively inexpensive knives so maybe that's why I like them.
I like any kind of knife and as long as they're sharp then they should make fine prizes.
A hunting knife is a lot more about personal taste, but the utility of a pocket knife is pretty universal.
 
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I like the idea of the Old Hickory knives as a prize. There have been a few articles in The Backwoodsman magazine about reshaping them into knives to look like a Nesmuk knife or a Green River Mountain Man knife. And they can for the most part be had for under $10 from Midway USA. The handles can be easily removed to work on the blade. Matter of fact its recommended that you remove the slabs and glue them back on with epoxy. I have 4 of them. Easy to sharpen and easy to keep sharp. They will also spark a fire steel.
 
A nice pocket knife that has a good blade and is sharp is very good. The winner can carry it almost anywhere except into a courthouse or school or onto a plane.
A fixed blade knife like the Mora, or like Old Hickory are great camp and field knives, and can be very sharp. My deer dressing knife and my patch knife are both old fashioned Moras with the wooden handle that they paint red.
A box of roundball bullets wouldn't go astray. The problem with that idea is that you need to have enough of the different calibers from .440 to .530 to go around in such a situation. I wouldn't fret on winning a box of .440's as I often cast my own .530's but not everybody wants to cast.

LD
 
We have at least three active, bonafide gun builders in our club. All three of them build beautiful rifles and smoothbore. One of them built my rifle.
Here is the official thr blackpowder forum invitation.
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I blocked out some personal info, just to keep it off the interweb...
If you would like to actually attend, pm me for details.
 
Good on you for being a gracious and generous host! I think a good pocket knife is a treasure.

I am not familiar with Rough Rider knives, but they look interesting. For many years I have given a Schrade Old Timer knife to friends on their 40th birthday, and most still carry them to this day. Just in case you ever consider a different brand.
 
Who wouldn't appreciate a nice pocket knife?

The Old Hickory knives... I agree with comments on them here. If I were looking for something for a blanket prize, I think I'd kick in one or two of these. A lot can be done with the 3" and 4" pairing knives.

While I'm too far away to be concerned, I'd have to go back to the part about "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
 
Nothing wrong with the knives for sure, but if you're looking to change things up a bit and keep your costs down you could visit your local big box stores that consider muzzleloading stuff to be a seasonal item.
Her in MI Walmart sells muzzlloading supplies and always puts them on clearance sale after the muzzleloading deer season (NOW) you could pick up powder measures, ram rods, caps, bullets, caps, substitute powders, cappers, and even some inline muzzleloaders at half off or more.
 
bannockburn said:
Another "YES" vote for the knives as prizes. Maybe a mix of pocket knives and fixed blade. Old Hickory knives are relatively inexpensive and look the part of being "old time" looking.

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Two of my prizes that I ordered for my March 8th event finally arrived today on the big brown truck.

20200417_164610.jpg ...only 5 weeks late, lol.
I was short two prizes, but as luck would have it, I won one of the prizes myself, and we had enough competitors that we were running short of time to shoot our final target before mrs was serving the chili and cornbread.
These two Old Hickory pig stickers will be saved for my sixth annual shoot. (Unless I claim one for myself!)
 
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