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« Last post by hotfxr on Today at 01:48:22 PM »I wonder if interest, in general, would pick up if a truly good movie (maybe kinda like Jeremiah Johnson) were to hit the theaters.
I believe that movie was largely responsible for the resurgence of black powder shooting back when it came out. I know it made me interested in muzzleloaders.
It seems that all the sites I visit are lacking in the activity category. There is not one single store (as far as I know) in California that sells real black powder over the counter. You have to mail order it from out of state. In my searches I have found only one store in Oregon and one in Reno. That is due to BATF&E rules by the way. I learned that back when I still had a FFL.
And out here around July or so, black powder is banned from most public ranges due to fire hazard.
I had hoped that the much hyped "The Revenant" would spark a groundswell of interest in muzzleloaders, however it just wound up being 2 1/2 hours of my life that I will never get back.
Who knows, maybe if life gets back to a pre-pandemic normal, the Black Powder Dark Arts might rise up again.