NorthStarWest.com
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North Star West Home Page
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Matt Denison began his buckskinning adventure in 1989 after accidentally coming upon a rendezvous on a vacation in Northern California. One of the trailwalkers showed Matt how to load and shoot a muzzleloading rifle. After taking careful aim and squeezing the trigger he hit that first gong and he was completely hooked.
Over the next few years he became deeply involved in buckskinning. He joined the Diablo Buckskinners where he met Bob "Iron Jaw" & Claudia Rathbun. In 1992 Matt purchased a North Star West Trade Gun, "in the white", from Iron Jaw who patiently showed him how to finish and tune it to shoot it's best. That year he, Matt, was the #3 shooter in the club competing against 45 other shooters with rifles!
Bob and Claudia took North Star West to their new home in Nevada and Matt moved to a log cabin in the Rocky Mountains of Western Montana. While in Montana Matt was instrumental in starting a local black powder club, booshwaying the first Sapphire Mountain Men rendezvous. An enthusiastic member of the N.R.A. the N.M.L.R.A. and several other local and national shooting associations, not to mention attendance at dozens of rendezvous and other black powder events, prepared him to become the current President of the local shooting and buckskinning club.
