I saw the post regarding the Long Rifles, and it's great to see that muzzle loading seems to be growing aside from the modern stuff.
I'm a member of the North South Skirmish Association. We're a competition group comprised of teams. Each team represents a unit from the Civil War and wears a uniform consistent with that unit. At Nationals (we have a permanent range) in Winchester VA, each team puts an 8 man squad on the firing line for small arms competition. We compete with muskets, smoothbores, pistols, repeaters (Henry and Spencer), carbines, and artillery (howitzers, guns, and mortars). Many competitors shoot originals but repros are also commonly found on the line.
Course of fire for most events involve breakable target arrays. There's not arguing here, you either break it or not to count. Events are timed, all shooting is offhand, clock's running, fastest time wins, commence firing, no pressure. The main event is the musket match where the first part of the 5 relays is the pigeon board. 32 clay pigeons are mounted on a board at 50yds. The teams start firing on their respective boards, only broken birds count, fastest time wins. This is some challenging shooting, a clay presents a target aspect of about 5moa. Shooting offhand with iron sights, can you hold 5in at 100 offhand with clock pressure?
Ft Shennandoah is our permanent range in VA and is open to members. There's pretty much a Skirmish there twice a month for most of the year, but regional ranges host matches as well throughout the year. There are 3 teams nominally based in the NC/SC area and there is one range in Statesville and the range most accessible from eastern NC is in Capron VA.
We're on FaceBook, YouTube and have our own forum-
N-SSA.net
and website-
N-SSA.org
Come on out! We welcome visitors and spectators.
I'm a member of the North South Skirmish Association. We're a competition group comprised of teams. Each team represents a unit from the Civil War and wears a uniform consistent with that unit. At Nationals (we have a permanent range) in Winchester VA, each team puts an 8 man squad on the firing line for small arms competition. We compete with muskets, smoothbores, pistols, repeaters (Henry and Spencer), carbines, and artillery (howitzers, guns, and mortars). Many competitors shoot originals but repros are also commonly found on the line.
Course of fire for most events involve breakable target arrays. There's not arguing here, you either break it or not to count. Events are timed, all shooting is offhand, clock's running, fastest time wins, commence firing, no pressure. The main event is the musket match where the first part of the 5 relays is the pigeon board. 32 clay pigeons are mounted on a board at 50yds. The teams start firing on their respective boards, only broken birds count, fastest time wins. This is some challenging shooting, a clay presents a target aspect of about 5moa. Shooting offhand with iron sights, can you hold 5in at 100 offhand with clock pressure?
Ft Shennandoah is our permanent range in VA and is open to members. There's pretty much a Skirmish there twice a month for most of the year, but regional ranges host matches as well throughout the year. There are 3 teams nominally based in the NC/SC area and there is one range in Statesville and the range most accessible from eastern NC is in Capron VA.
We're on FaceBook, YouTube and have our own forum-
N-SSA.net
and website-
N-SSA.org
Come on out! We welcome visitors and spectators.