Strother Freetrappers is a Black Powder shooting club. We are a primitive shooting range with camping for modern and primitive (living history) campers. Please read our welcome letter. We hold a Spring and Fall rendezvous, a get together of mountain men... and women now. They are held the first weekend of April and October. Please read our Fall and Spring brochures and come to our 2009 Missouri Offhand Championship Our regular club shoots are the first Sunday of every month at 12 noon at the range. We have all kinds of shooting contests for black powder rifles, shotguns and pistols. We also engage in events where we throw hawks (tomahawks) and knives at wood targets. We do not allow modern weapons of any kind at the club including in-line or modern muzzle loaders. Many people in the club (30 total) make their own rifles, clothes tents and tepees as well as everyday items that a mountain man or primitive hunter, plainsman or pioneer would have. We prepare meals, build shelter and live every day life like our ancestors would have lived, in other words, we are really re-living history. This makes for a very interesting hobby as well as a study in self sufficiency. Our rifle shooters are able to make any shot just as accurately as a modern day shooter with the only limitation being the longer range of modern powders. We invite you to please take a membership application. We have a wonderfull small acreage just outside the city that allows us to shoot our guns without disturbing the neighbors. There are several forms of wildlife on the property including deer, turkey and squirrels, but hunting on club ground is prohibited. There is a beautiful stream that runs right through the property that gives young and old alike an opportunity to canoe and enjoy the many creatures that call it home. Members can individually enjoy camping and use the range any time they want. There are no modern facilities such as power, water or restrooms on the club grounds, as a a testament to the old ways. Here are the directions to our range. The club is totally a family experience. We have shooting competitions during spring and fall rendezvous where men, women and kids shoot in their own respective divisions, although many of our women shooters are the best shots in the club. Strother is one of many such clubs in Missouri and all over the country that engage in this type of experience. We are sanctioned by the NMLRA or the National Muzzle loading rifle Association.and participate in the Missouri Offhand Association annual aggregate shooting competition.