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This was spilling over on the twist thread so here goes
PR Bullets site mentions a couple years but not the team. 2001 and 2002
Knights 2006 catalog with the DE658B Target shows a 2005 win and says they won for the last 6 year straight. So that should be from 2000-2005.
Doc White's site mentions the 2006 win and breaking all previous records with the "Varminter" rifle.
His website also goes on with a little more info about the match.
Ok, this appears to imply that 2000 was the first year and 2 of those years sabots beat Whites conicals. I also found a reference to Savage competing using Black Mag 3 powder. That would have been in 2006 or 2005.
Whites website also says 2006 was the last year for that match.
PR Bullets site mentions a couple years but not the team. 2001 and 2002
QT .40 Polymer Tip sabots take first place at the 2001 & 2002 World "Manufacturers Challenge" Blackpowder Championships team event.
Knights 2006 catalog with the DE658B Target shows a 2005 win and says they won for the last 6 year straight. So that should be from 2000-2005.
Every year, the world’s muzzleloading rifle manufacturers square off in a shooting competition that tests accuracy unlike any other event. At the 2005 shoot in Friendship, IN we took home #1 honors, again, for the sixth straight year!
Doc White's site mentions the 2006 win and breaking all previous records with the "Varminter" rifle.
WHITE RIFLES TEAM WINS THE 2006 MANUFACTURER’S MATCH
The White team established a new record for the match, shooting 1132- 14X, eclipsing the old record of 1101-8X set in 2005 by the Knight team. David Jones also shot a new individual record for the match, shooting a 291-3X. He missed 9 points out of 300. WOW! It is hard for me to express how proud I am of this team of shooters.
His website also goes on with a little more info about the match.
All this came to a head with the advent of the National Manufacturer’s match at the Spring 2000 NMLRA shoot. All the manufacturers/importers in the country were invited to bring a team of shooters to the match, shooting off the shelf rifles. There were to be 4 members to a team, shooting a series of paper targets in the morning and a series of steel gongs in the afternoon. Scopes were allowed, otherwise the guns were supposed to be stock, off the shelf items. The winners got the glory, the manufacturer got to advertise that they won.
By the fourth year (2005), it had become apparent that the White team of absolute amateurs shooting off the shelf rifles was competing against professionals with meticulously tuned guns and sighting systems
Ok, this appears to imply that 2000 was the first year and 2 of those years sabots beat Whites conicals. I also found a reference to Savage competing using Black Mag 3 powder. That would have been in 2006 or 2005.
As a matter of fact, it was the great success of Savage Shooter Dennis Dudley and his NMLRA "Manufacturer's Cup" shooting team with Black Mag 3 in their Savage 10ML-II rifles that convinced me that Magkor's Black Mag 3 deserved a new, closer look
Whites website also says 2006 was the last year for that match.
The match was discontinued after White cleaned everyone’s clock. I guess we get to keep the trophy.