Any hunters/shooters on the board?

[David Thornton]

The local club is hosting a driven pheasant shoot this weekend. I volunteered my lab as a pick up dog. Think I'll go kilted.

I did get an invite to a woodcock hunt in Ireland for January, bad timing. I do hope the invite will be extended again.

David

[Kiltedmusiclover]

Mike do you ever do any skirmishing at Fort Macon??

Musta missed this thread the first time by. I shoot blackpowder and modern. Wife and I do Civil War skirmishing with the N-SSA (North-South Skirmish Association), shooting for fun and score using period weapons and reproductions, also we are both life members of the NRA. I am a member of SASS (Single Action Shooting Society) and have a ball playing cowboy, just a big kid at heart I guess. :smile:

Nether of us get to spend as much time at the range as we would really like but we do shoot as much as we can. In fact this coming weekend is the National Skirmish for the N-SSA and we, along with a couple thousand others, will be there...pouring powder, making smoke and getting filthy, great fun.

Mike

[Mike n NC]

Mike do you ever do any skirmishing at Fort Macon??

Actually no. Skirmishing uses live bullets and with Ft. Macon being a tourist attraction added to the fact that yankees are on the endangered species list... I do go up, in uniform, once in a while to assist with the musket and artillery demos. Those are a lot of fun but use only powder for the noise and smoke.

This coming weekend at the meet in VA we will be live firing musket, smoothbore, carbine, repeater, pistol, mortar and cannon. Ranges are reduced of course but all, even the artillery, are fired at targets for score. Small arms compitetion is both individual and team with medals awarded to the top 3 finishers.
Sunday at the musket team matches there will be two stages of about 1200-1500 shooters each. The way the smoke lays over the range must be very similar to how it looked back in the 1860s. Come on up, let's see how close you can put a mortar ball to a golf pin at a hundred yards...FORE!! :smile:

Mike

[Jerry]

Actually no. Skirmishing uses live bullets and with Ft. Macon being a tourist attraction added to the fact that yankees are on the endangered species list... I do go up, in uniform, once in a while to assist with the musket and artillery demos. Those are a lot of fun but use only powder for the noise and smoke.

This coming weekend at the meet in VA we will be live firing musket, smoothbore, carbine, repeater, pistol, mortar and cannon. Ranges are reduced of course but all, even the artillery, are fired at targets for score. Small arms compitetion is both individual and team with medals awarded to the top 3 finishers.
Sunday at the musket team matches there will be two stages of about 1200-1500 shooters each. The way the smoke lays over the range must be very similar to how it looked back in the 1860s. Come on up, let's see how close you can put a mortar ball to a golf pin at a hundred yards...FORE!! :smile:

Mike

Mike, what is the location of the meet in Va? If it isn't too far from me, I'd like to see it.

[David Thornton]

What? No one in Scotland participates in shooting or stalking anymore?

I would love to spend a week in Scotland. Maybe a day of driven pheasant, a couple of days of rough shooting. A couple of days stalking, OK so I'll need more than a week

David

[David in Maryland]

Gun ownership is not allowed in Scotland.

[Angus]

Gun ownership is not allowed in Scotland.

Do they have huge herds of deer/stag running all over the place, how do they regulate their game?

Ps- Im a hunter, but not much of a shooter(shooting blue rock, musket, reenactment)

[Woodsheal]

Gun ownership is not allowed in Scotland.

Tyranny! Oppression!! Free men should never be disallowed the bearing of arms....

Anyways, I like to hunt in an 18th C. period fashion, including the clothing and a smoothbore flintlock.

Used to shoot N-SSA years ago, too!

[Mike n NC]

Mike, what is the location of the meet in Va? If it isn't too far from me, I'd like to see it.

It is just out of Winchester on 522 headed to WV, check it out here:
http://www.n-ssa.org/
Everything is open to spectators so anyone that is close enough come on by. The sutlers are a good source of leather, belts and some period clothing.

Mike

[SumoKilt]

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Josh