Musket School part 1

The National Park Service puts on a good black powder safety program. I -along with 16 others- went for a three hour classroom discussion this morning followed by a lunch.

It was geared to those new to black powder and shooting in general, and while I didn't really learn anything new, refreshers never hurt. What was really cool was all the guns they had to show us. They had: a shoulder-fired cannon, a Brown Bess, a French Charliville, a Spanish Fusil, a Matchlock, and a civil war era Springfield, just to name a few.

Good stuff!