im wanting to start a club in the butte mt area any info would help out

Advertise.
Find a place where the club can shoot.
Decide what kind of club you want(just shooting, buckskinning, re-enacting[and what kind/timeframe]).
Post flyers, with contact info, in every sporting goods store, gunshop, library(if they'll let you), and any appropriate historical sites, in the surrounding areas.
Once you get more than 3 or 4 people, then you can start worrying about officers, club rules, etc.
You can probably find more helpful info than this.

Hey Bear Bait,
Some time ago (Sept. 2007) Sawbones started a thread in the "Events and Clubs" forum with this very question (How's THAT for long term memory?) Just do a search (it's under the Find tab in the forum toolbar) for "starting a new black powder club", and you may find the answers you are seeking already there.

Good luck with your efforts. It's always good to have compadres of like mind.

Thanks for remembering that Pilgrim! This is a great forum...
Hey Bear Bait, Welcome to the fire! I did post a thread just like yours back then and I got a lot of help. I started a club here in March of 2008, tonight we are having our monthly meeting and getting ready for a shoot tomorrow. I think the key to a good club is to start out slow, don't try to do too much at first too fast. And by all means, delegate as much as you can! You will find that it is just like everything else there may be 2 or 3 guys that do all the work. Eventually, this sews discord and those people get ticked off and don't want to participate! ( Ask me how I know this.) Also, have regular set times for meetings, and try to be consistent. This is something that we still have trouble with down here and it has caused some folks not join. I'm not trying to preach at you, and I still consider myself a greenhorn. But, do whatever you can to get youth into the club. They will keep it going and pass it along. I have given away a lot of nice guns to high school kids, just to get them invoved. It works, and it was definitely worth it. Take a look at our web site if you want to, www.surprisevalleysmokepoles.com
Good luck to you, and don't hesitate to ask for any advice. The folks here on this site are very, very helpfull!

I forgot to mention about insurance. There are a lot of ways to go on this. Some go through the NRA or NMLRA and they have some good deals. We go through Yates Insurance and Bonding, the cost is $450 a year for the entire group up to 60 members and spectators, and no one has to join any other organization, and the coverage is $1,000,000.
Sorry, that is one of the not much fun things about having a club...

Something else to think about.

If you don't have a place to shoot and need to use an existing club's range, you might look at the following:

Join the existing club and form a black powder group, team, or what ever you want to call it, but operate under the existing club's insurance, on their range, and under theirt by laws.

There are several problems with this but they can be turned into solutions, let me explain.

All of your members would need to be members of the parent club (the range ouners). You can operate like a team so you can schedule events. The plus for the parent club is an infusion of members, those wanting to be part of your group.

The plus side for you is an existing range, club house, and insurance.

The group I belong to operate as a black powder team even though we have a full battery of officers and we get to keep any money we raise, just not the individual dues.

We charge ourselves $5 to shoot each of our monthly shoots and that money is used to put on a rendezvous each August. We have a rider on the parent club's insurance that covers the participants of the rondy and the use of private property away from the club premises for one week.

For what it's worth. The pistol team and the muzzleloader team pretty much run the parent club now. It is those members who are the most active, attend the meetings, the work parties, and use the facilities the most. I was the president of the parent club for the last 6 years. I just turned it over to a different person. The members would have retained me as president if I hadn't literaly informed them I didn't want it a 7th year.

Load fast and aim slow.