Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. Cash In On Accessories or years, muzzleloader wannabes com- hot-ticket items these days in muzzleloader plained about the time it took to keep a sales, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have traditional muzzleloader clean and the time products in stock. You just need to realize it took to work up an accurate load. Those what sells the best, and stock what customdays are gone. Modern muzzleers demand,” Potter said. loaders clean easily, don’t In powder, Potter need to be cleaned as often says Pyrodex is his sales and shoot more accurately. leader with Jim ShockPotter sees this as both ey’s Gold from Ameria positive and a negative. can Pioneer Powder Easier care means less gaining market share. sales in cleaning products, “(Shockey’s) Gold acbut it also means more counts for 25 percent of overall sales in muzzlepowder sales with Pyroloaders and other products. dex pellets making up 65 “Cleaning products and percent. Loose powder the tools required to mainrounds out the rest of powtain a muzzleloader are pretder sales,” Potter said. ty important to us,” Potter As for muzzleloader said. “Even so, accessories bullets, Potter stocks a aren’t as big as they used to wide selection of Powerbe a decade or so ago. You belt bullets, but says he don’t need as many tools sells more sabots, with to run a modern in-line as T/C’s line making up the compared to a traditional majority of the sales. muzzleloader. That said, we In optics, Potter sells still carry an extended line of riflescopes with 60 to accessories including T/C, 70 percent of all muzTraditions and CVA cleanzleloaders purchased at ing products. Muzzleloaders G.A.T. Guns. still require cleaning — just “Leupold and Nikon not as often.” are the biggest sellers in Potter doesn’t see as muzzleloading scopes. many “must-have” muzzleCustomers are big into the loader accessories as he Omega scope by Nikon did before the mass introwith its BDC reticle. It Outers’ Black Powder duction of in-lines. The inallows them to hold over, Cleaning Kit includes an creased number of hunters with exact aiming for lonaluminum rod, bore cleaner now drives his strong sales. ger shots, and that’s today’s concentrate and other “There are not as many trend,” Potter said. 9 cleaning accessories. F MUZZLELOADING SALES Accurate Arms Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Pioneer Powder . . . . . . . . Barnes Bullets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bushnell Outdoor Products . . . . . . . . CCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cheyenne Cartridge Box Co . . . . . . . . Circle Fly Wads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Connecticut Valley Arms (CVA) . . . . . Dixie Gun Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E .M .F . Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Federal Premium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hodgdon Powder Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hornady Mfg . Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Knight Rifles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leupold & Stevens . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lyman Muzzleloaders . . . . . . . . . . . Mountain State Muzzleloading . . . . . www.shootingindustry.com 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 411 MTM Case-Gard Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . Navy Arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New England Firearms . . . . . . . . . . . Nikon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nosler Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PowerBelt Bullets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RCBS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Redding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Remington Arms Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . Savage Arms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shiloh Rifle Mfg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Taylor’s & Co . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tennessee Valley Mfg . . . . . . . . . . . . Thompson/Center Arms . . . . . . . . . . Traditions Performance Firearms . . . Triple K Mfg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . United States Fire Arms . . . . . . . . . . Vihtavuori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walters Wads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . White Rifles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Winchester Ammunition . . . . . . . . . . 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 Circle No. 213 on Inquiry Card JUNE 2008 43