2 band guns at re-enactments

[Longbranch 1]

This simply just isnt true.

Please show a period of account of injuries or fatalities, during training from non-3 band muskets or musket-rifles ?

Are you suggesting they went "live" (loaded) then drilled with loaded, capped guns ? Target practiced by company, batallion ?

I did not mean to imply a 2-band vs 3 band differential or that as a matter of couse, " live " weapons were used in drill.

Training accidents did occur then, as now.
I will try to find the citations and get them to you. ( A lot of this is from personal narrations and I don't have them specifically catalogued in this area )

The point I was trying to make was that as reenactors, generally, we do not have access to the quantity, if not the quality, of instruction in the use of these arms.

Sorry about any confusion on that point.

Regards,
Kevin Ellis,
26th NC

[FloridaConfederate]

Right on Tarheel....

I hear ya but can we agree that many knowledgeable folks here put forth a pretty good case to dispel the perception that a rifle is somehow going to create mayhem in the ranks by virtue of being shorter ?

On merits of barrel size alone.... Isnt the case more pressing then for Buckaroo Bob and the 6 Brass Frame Rem 58 Brigade bebopping through the ranks pistolas a blazin ? Those cats are a booger hook on the trigger emergency room visit waitn to happen.

I dont know how the ranks are where you boys are a' postin from... but you will shoot a short rifle ONCE in the ranks too close to someones head here in the Deeeeeep Southern CS Ranks. The second time, seeing how you survived the verbal pillorary from the first and didnt catch on..you will walk funny until you can unseat that mississip shooter. Same goes for the rammer. Issue non-critical

I guess idiocy peer-polices itself well around adult, responsible redneck feelers.

Where a Man is Still Willing To Snatch a Rifle Out of Yer Hands and Give You the Once Fer Being an Idiot Mess

[Longbranch 1]

Christopher,

We are thinking along the same lines.
I had relatives with Co.'s A and B, 35th NCT who were issued Mississippi's upon enlistment. The only 2 companies in the Regiment so equipped.

I drop hints from time to time about forming a skirmish company equipped thus. That could drill together once or twice a month.

Hard to arrange due to the geographic dispersal of reenactors and the cost factor.
When I hit the lottery ( Hey, it COULD happen!!! ), I'll spring for the arms.

Regards,
Kevin Ellis,
26th NC