Saratoga results

Musket

15 CVI 734.8
73 NY 838.6
120 NY 958.3
42 NY 964.8
4 Va Inf A 989.1
Carolina 1099.1
10 Mass Btty 1120.5
20 CVI 1219.3
14 CVI 1345.2
4 Va Inf B 1540.5

Carbine

15 CVi 704.2
4 Va Inf A ` 833.5
[Carolina 901.1]
120 NY 933.0
10 Mass Btty 933.4
73 NY 1023.2
[42 1047.8]
14 CVI 1146.3
4 Va Inf B 1759.9

Smoothbore
10 Mass Btty 242.2
4 Va Inf A 274.2
Carolina B 330.5
15 CVI A 372.1
14 CVI A 374.3
120 NY 417.0
15 CVI B 467.0
14 CVI B 515.1
4 Va Inf B 634.4
20 CVI 830.0

Musket
50
P Barbieri 49
T Trovato 46
G Rohde 44-1
H Anagnostis 44
M Farrell 44

100
P Barbieri 46-1
W Clark 46
H Anagnostis 44
P Hughes 44
G Rohde 42

Agg
P Barbieri 95-1
W Clark 90
H Anagnostis 88
P Hughes 87
G Rohde 86-1

Carbine
50
M Romano 47
A Torday 45
T Trovato 44
M Aluzzo 43-1
T Hines 42

100
J Turner 44-1
W Clark 44
T Hines 42
G Rohde 40
P Hughes 38

Agg
W Clark 85
G Rohde 79
P Hughes 78
T Occhi 77
J Faucher 68

Rev

H Anagnostis 48-2
M Aluzzo 41-1
W Clark 37-1

BL
50
W Clark 48-1
G Rohde 46-2
T Occhi 41

100
W Clark 46-1
G Rohde 45
T Occhi 40

Agg
W Clark 94-2
G Rohde 91-2
T Occhi 81

SB
25
T Hines 47
C Hughes 46-1
M Aluzzo 46

50
A Torday 46
T Occhi 45
W Clark 40

Agg
A Torday 89
C Hughes 86-1
T Occhi 86

Grand Agg
W Clark 212-1
H Anagnostis 130-2

KATIE HAS ARRIVED IN AFGHANISTAN

Glastonbury results

Another regional skirmish completed this weekend hosted by the 1st CVI. Although there was some rain Friday night, Sat & Sun were clear, dry and sunny. While the 15th CVI started out the musket team match with a commanding lead, the 5th CVI narrowed it down to 8.9 seconds.

BB gun competition was also held with the following medal winners:
Michael Clark, 4th Va Inf 82
Cody Vervalin, 14th Va Cav 42-1x

Individual medal leaders were: Walter Clark - 11, Dan Stedman - 7, Ted Occhi - 7.

Also attached as a separate file are the Regional team results after 4 skirmishes. While the number of shooters has remained approximately the same as the past several years, we now have more legal teams competing.

NEXT SKIRMISH: July 22-23, at Saratoga hosted by the 14th VA Cav,

MUSKET TEAM RESULTS (4 events):

15th CVI 646.4
5th CVI 655.3
14th VA Cav 761.4
4th VA I "A" 837.9
14th CVI "A" 864.9
34th VA Cav 872.8
14th CVI "B" 930.3
20th CVI 1,029.8
4th VA I "B" 1,103.1
10th Mass 1,309.3

CARBINE TEAM RESULTS (4 events, the stake was disregarded since nobody finished in the time allotted):

15th CVI 510.3
34th VA Cav 553.0
4th VA I "A" 585.5
14th VA Cav 627.0
10th Mass 654.5
13th NJ 730.5
14th CVI 778.3
5th CVI 1,065.0
4th VA I "B" 1,119.6


SMOOTHBORE TEAM RESULTS (4 events, including a puff board):

4th VA I "A" 334.3
15th CVI "A" 366.0
10th Mass 389.0
34th VA Cav 460.0
5th CVI 574.6
14th VA Cav 606.2
15th CVI "B" 613.3
14th CVI 756.0

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS:

MUSKET-50 Yrds "A"
W Clark 44-1x
J Moore 44
T Trovato 44

MUSKET-100 Yrds "A"
W Clark 45
D Stedman 45

MUSKET AGG-"A"
W Clark 89-1x
D Stedman 88-1x

MUSKET-50 Yrds "B"
R Burres 44-2x
J Faucher 44
A Torday 42

MUSKET-100 Yrds "B"
J Faucher 41
T Schott 41
T Occhi 39

MUSKET AGG-"B"
J Faucher 85
T Schott 82
T Occhi 78

CARBINE-50 Yrds "A"
D Stedman 46
T Hines 44-1x
M Koprowski 43

CARBINE-100 Yrds "A"
W Clark 44
D Stedman 43-1x
R Breidenthal 41

CARBINE Agg "A"
D Stedman 89-1x
W Clark 87
R Breidenthal 82

CARBINE-50 Yrds "B"
M Lathem 44
P Orzolek 43
R Raby 43

CARBINE-100 Yrds "B"
T Schott 39
J Faucher 37
P Orzolek 35

CARBINE AGG "B"
J Faucher 79
T Witham 68
T Schott 39

REVOLVER 25 Yrd
D Stedman 47-2x
P Orzolek 44
E Moore 44

SMOOTHBORE 25 Yrd
T Occhi 45
S Smith 43-1x
T Witham 43-1x

SMOOTHBORE 50 Yrd
T Hines 43
A Torday 40
W Clark 40

SMOOTHBORE Agg
T Witham 83-1x
W Clark 82-1x
T Occhi 82

BREECHLOADER-50 Yrds
W Clark 46
P Orzolek 39
T Occhi 39

BL-100yrd
T Hines 46
T Occhi 45
W Clark 44

BL-Agg
W Clark 90
T Occhi 84

GRAND AGGREGATE
D Stedman 224-4x
W Clark 219-1x
R Breidenthal 194-1x

4th VA Inf battle flag - The real one

4th VA Inf. Battle flag - Captured May 12, 1864 at Spotsylvania - Bloody Angle

Picture taken at the Confederate Museum, Richmond, VA by Dave Wright

Wife's photography class

My wife is taking a photography class at RISD, had to do portraits for this weeks assignment. She ended up not using any of the civil war ones, lol, but it allowed her to experiment with the cameras settings.

Parker Hale 2-bander question

Hi everyone,
I think I already know the answer to this question, but thought I'd also get some opinions from you all.

I'm trying to tweak the 100 yard accuracy with my Parker Hale 2-bander, and so I'm thinking of moving to a heavier bullet. This would mean going from my current Lyman 575213 minie (510 gr minie, which shoots pretty well in the gun already) to a heavier Parker Hale style Minie (560 gr). I'm hoping the extra mass in the PH style minie and a bit more powder will help tighten the groups a bit more, particularly at 100 yds.

I have been sitting on the Parker Hale mold that came with the gun and tried casting with it today for the first time. The minies out of this Parker Hale mold are only about .573 in diameter, whereas ordinarily I size the Lyman 575213 rounds to .576".

Do you think the Parker Hale minie going to be too undersized for what I want it to do? Should I just get the Lyman 575213PH mold and size to .576 for a tighter fit in the bore?

For what it's worth, the Parker Hale mold threw bullets today in the 547-550 grain range, whereas the Lyman 575213PH is listed as a 566 grain minie.

I did manage to get to the range tonight before dark and shot four groups of five at 100 yds (well, actually 96 yards since our frames got moved in a bit). Groups were okay, nothing to brag about, but I was shooting off cheap bags rather than my good rest. Started with 45 gr of 3F, groups were a tad high, might drop the powder a bit and move back to a portable bench at a genuine 100 yds. I'd say the groups averaged about 5" without much effort on my part.

What I'm hoping is that heavier minies will tighten the groups at 100 yds, especially given the relatively fast 1:48 twist in the P58 rifling. other thoughts?

So even though I'm pretty sure I'm going to need the Lyman mold, I just wanted to see what folks here thought about the sizing issue before spending the cash.

thanks everyone,
Jim

ps. I also don't want to grind down the base plug on my 575213 mold, would rather keep that intact in case I want to go back to it later.

4th Virginia Sutler's token

my thanks to Billy "O'Malley" Lo Meli for turning this one up on the Facebook. Don Troiani has this posted on his artist Facebook page. Pretty cool stuff.

Tommy, I think you need one of these . . .