Hi Mike, Although long-winded, that was quite a well thought out post. The only thing I think you might want to reconsider is the late war rifleman. Yes, by...
Hi Dan, Good point. The performance of militia riflemen at Kings Mt., Cowpens, Guilford, and Green Spring supports your point. I must plead a bit of laziness...
Dear List, For the past couple of months I've been mulling over the idea of holding a rifle muster similar to the one that I heard about at Fort Frederick a...
Would Petersburg be semi-cnetral for everyone? it has the terrain that would be useful for both open field and woods. McJager umfspock87@... wrote: Dear...
Have you thought about just meeting someplace at Ft. Frederick at an announced time and place? I both the ALRA and COHT have done it in the past. I've...
I haven't quit this thread yet, It's just taking a long time to find a quote from a Scottish gille who wrote to his lard that they had to quit hunting stag for...
Hey Rick, Hmmm, not a bad idea. I mean, although we couldn't hold a traditional school of the soldier, and there is the issue of camping overnight (for those...
... I guess the first thing to do would be to figure out how many on the list are already going o be there. I've been attending for the full 5 days (Wednesday...
Mike, I'd be up for meeting at Ft. Fred on Saturday. It would be great if we could do some live firing but I think that might be a little difficult to pull...
Joe, While I'm not sure if firing is limited to registered campers, or day visitors (reenactors) can fire, the fort usually has range hours on at least...
RE: meeting at Market Faire I would be interested. Thanks Mike for all the thought and time you are putting into things such as this. I am confident I for...
Dear Fellow Riflemen, I just wanted to applaud all of the riflemen who turned out on Saturday to fight in the battles of Trenton. It wasn't that long ago that...
I am curious about what type of rifles the membership carry? I use a replica of a Reading school rifle(see No. 22 in Rifles of Colonial America Vol. I). I made...
Hey Ron, I have a Mark Silver Virginia Rifle from Jim Chambers. I bought it as a kit and struggled for a couple of years to put it together. It's a 58 Cal....
Fellow Rev Rifles, Me and my boys have two G.L. Jones rifles, one early Virginia and one early Lancaster; one custom-made early Lancaster poorboy; and one...
I carry a copy of a Jacob Dickert Pennsylvania longrifle made by Bryan LaMaster, formerly out of Winchester, VA. I bought it as a "keepsake"; before I got...
The last missive on the Dickert rifle was mine . . sorry Warren Deal Recruit 7th VA **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. ...
Hi all, I have two rifles. The first one that I started reenacting with is a Traditions Pennsylvania Rifle. I pickled the barrel on it so it doesn't look a...
Hello all, To keep up with this thread: I have several as follows: Southern Poor Boy 50 cal. ,made by Chambers about 30 years ago. I use this 99% of the time....
There are a couple errors in the CW article though. Just as a quick example, "A minute or more was needed to tightly "patch" the ball and carefully ram it down...
The problem with the link was that it cut of the letters "cfm" after the "tactics." Yahoo is notorious for adding spaces and wrapping links. Always look on...
People say they have found "rifle balls" at the site, but don't say how they know a particular ball was fired/used in a rifle. Caliber alone is not enough...
Hi Mario, I'm not sure that you can dismiss "found rifle balls" if they are below about 62 caliber and are from the 18th century. I do not know of any...
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Indians were reported to have had rifles from England. This makes sense as Indians were far more inclined to be sharpshooters and hunt for food. That is a...
Dan, I merely said that caliber alone was insufficient evidence. If you had ball of an appropriate caliber along with, perhaps, a journal entry to corroborate...
Sorry, sounds like I was a bit mis-understood. My point was not who had the rifles, but rather if there were reported to be "rifle balls" found, could they be...
