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 . . .

Saratoga Results

Another great regional completed this weekend with thanks to the 120th NYVI as hosts. The weather was just about perfect with a clear, sunny sky and cool nights.
The musket matches were 8-shooter teams with 5 competing and 2 hospital teams. The 14th VA cav took the lead from the first event and completly dominated the results. Individual match leaders were Harry A - 8 medals, Glen Rohde - 7, D Smith - 6.
NEXT SHOOT- July 9-10, Glastonbury Elks, Hosted by 1st CVI
MUSKET TEAM RESULTS:
14th VA Cav 658.1
15th CVI 890.3
4th VA Inf 923.8
10th Mass 962.0
73rd NYVI 976.4
Hosp-A 1,214.6
Hosp-B 1,524.1
CARBINE TEAM RESULTS:
15th CVI 473.3
14th VA Cav A 509.1
10th Mass A 726.1
4th VA Inf A 1,052.7
73rd NYVI 1,053.6
4th VA Inf B 1,114.1
14th VA B 1,178.9
10th Mass B 1,624.0
SMOOTHBORE TEAM RESULTS
10th Mass A 227.0
15th CVI A 233.5
14th VA B 354.2
4th VA Inf A 400.8
14th CVI 441.7
10th Mass B 483.3
14th VA Cav A 487.1
15th CVI B 605.0
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
MUSKET-50 Yrd
H Anagnostis 49-2x
D Stedman 47-1x
T Trovato 47
P Barbieri 46
D Smith 46
MUSKET-100 Yrd
P Barbieri 46-1x
G Rhode 45-1x
H Anagnostis 44-1x
M Farrell 44
M Jewett 43-1x
MUSKET AGG
H Anagnostis 93-3x
P Barbieri 92-1x
D Stedman 89-1x
CARBINE-50 Yrd
H Anagnostis 48
D Smith 46
S Tackus 44-2x
G Rohde 44-1x
M Farrell 44-1x
CARBINE-100 Yrd
H Anagnostis 46-1x
D Stedman 45-1x
T Hines 45
D Smith 44
G Rohde 42
CARBINE AGG
H Anagnostis 94-1x
D Smith 90
G Rhode 86-1x
REVOLVER-25 Yrd
H Anagnostis 48
P Orzolek 44
A La Patra 42
BREECHLOADER-50 Yrd
C Henshall 46
G Rohde 46
P Barbieri 45-1x
BREECHLOADER -100 Yrd
G Rohde 49-1x
A La Patra 44
D Smith 42
BREECHLOADER-Agg
G Rohde 95-1x
A La Patra 88-1x
D Smith 86
SMOOTHBORE-25 Yrd
M Ross 48
T Witham 47-3x
D Nelson 45-1x
SMOOTHBORE - 50 yrd
J Jewett 46
A Torday 42
T Hines 39
SMOOTHBORE AGG
J Jewett 89
A Torday 84
T Hines 80
GRAND AGGREGATE
H Anagnostis 235-4x
D Stedman 213-2x
A La Patra 200

Aging eyes: ongoing

After falling apart during the styrofoam cups event on Sunday morning (zero for . . . [cough] nine), I decided to make haste to my optician for some vision expertise. I can tell you that everything was a blur during that event--and I do mean EVERYTHING, targets, front sight, rear sight, everything. What concerned me most was the apparent double vision I had of the targets themselves . . . I couldn't blink them straight, I couldn't line up the front sight on a single isolated cup, nothing. That's never happened to me before. So off I went.

The optician I go to is a good one, and he's got several other customers who shoot. Half the problem he suggested was not having the right color shooting glasses to make the targets pop out of the green background a bit more. That made sense to me, so we talked about shooting glasses. We also talked about the need to focus on the front sight with my dominant (right eye). Ordinarily I've been shooting with bifocal contact lenses and clear non-prescription shooting glasses.

He suggested dropping down a diopter in my right contact lens and wearing a non-bifocal lens in that eye. He predicted that would give me good focus on the front sight at around 30 inches or thereabouts. So he gave me a couple of -3.75 lenses to try (my normal prescription is -4.75) in the right eye, with the instructions to keep my normal bifocal -4.75 in the left eye.

And I bought a pair of Bolle sport glasses with 4 different colored lens inserts: yellow, light brown, vermillion, and a polarized set for driving. These are polycarbonate so should work for shooting; he also sells the Wiley X brand but did not have any in stock, so I went with the Bolle. The idea here is to see if I can get the target image as sharp as possible against the various backgrounds and in different light conditions.

Went to the range yesterday morning before the rains came--put in the weaker contact lens in my right eye, wore the yellow lenses (cloudy conditions) in the shooting glasses, and shot 20 or so rounds at paper.

Results were encouraging: My first target put three just outside the black in one big hole; the second five shots were kind of all over; and the last ten shots put a number in the black.

Then I shot a half dozen or so shots plinking at blocks of wood against the backstop. This was the best thing I did: I probably hit 2 out of 3 shots on average for about ten shots total.

So hopefully this will be the next step in trying to figure out how to improve my musket shooting with aging eyes. The rains came a bit too quickly yesterday to shoot anymore at clays, but I'm going to make up some hanging clays to try with the vermilion lenses, which I understand really accentuate the orange. I'll let you know how that goes.

you can't hit what you can't see . . .

Denise Mike Fred and Bernie

Team photo taken by Mike Clark

Bernie and Fred

Al, Bob, Rich, Walt, Mikey

More Glastonbury pics

Walt, Bob, Tom, Denise, and Rich

Al, Bernie, Mike, and Tom

Bob, Denise, Mike, Fred, Bernie

Rick Bob Denise and Walt

Bob, Denise, Walt, Mike, Fred and Bernie

Glastonbury Shoot

Al, Denise, Fred, Tom, Jon, Mike, Bernie, Bob, Rich, and Walt.

Glastonbury Shoot

I have pics to upload, but I'm getting an internal error. Any suggestions?

Jon asks Tommy how much he wants for that Maynard

If anyone is interested...Walt is selling his Mississippi Type E, with SAC card, bayonnette, scabbard and frog. Will be taking to Nationals on Monday.

Black Powder

I'll admit, I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes. I ran out of 2F just before Hopkinton, and switched brands (the one shop in RI no longer carried Schuetzen) I expected a little change in point of aim, but as luck would have it I ended up 7 inches higher at 50 yards. Struggled through the weekend with an awful, hard to replicate sight picture at 50 with the carbine. I have been making plans to put a higher front sight on and sight in the carbine again, when something Tom said finally sunk in. I can just buy more Schuetzen in Winchester and leave the carbine alone. This solution is so simple, but flies in the face of my constant tinkering.

Recruitment Skirmish

Come on boys, if you want a heap of fun and to kill some yankees, er, I mean, clay pigeons, pots or tiles.

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