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The persistent fire of Hanukkah.
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Coaches and learners
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Subsonic 300blk
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Meeting in person after 15 years
I met Layla through helping VCDL in 2009. It took her until 2024 to stop by with family in tow.
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Hi-Point carbine in a bullpup stock.
High Tower conversion stock for 45ACP Hi-point carbine. Kaw Valley Precision linear compensator reduces noise and flash to the user.
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Project Appleseed
Project Appleseed has long been the go-to for rifle marksmanship training. They are now gradually phasing in handgun marksmanship training.
Rifle instruction remains top-notch.
Historic education is addressed through lectures and reenactors.
The training benefits young and old, newbie and pro.
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Range time with friends.
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M+M 10x Plus, modern 7.62×39
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Hearing protection for musical kids.
First time on the range, both did amazingly well out to 50 yards.
Their mother, during her first range time, did even better — out to 100 yards with a .22 rimfire!
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If a knight was like a tank…
…a heavy musket was like an RPG. It didn’t give a guarantee of a win, but required armor to get so heavy as to be physically nonviable and prohibitively expensive.
A real musketeer would have had a sword or a knife, wooden cases for pre-rolled paper cartridges (“Twelve Apostles”), and some sort of a helmet and body armor. However, even a peasant wench could have been trained to handle a musket or an arquebus well enough to pose a deadly threat to an armored knight, something that the same peasant with a spear or a poleax would not have been able to do nearly as effectively.
Using the forked rest as a melee weapon is definitely a desperation move. It’s better to have numerous friends with pikes nearby. Having armor would also be a big plus.
This rifle would pretty much guarantee a tag out to 400 yards. With a little bit of effort, 600 isn’t out of question. Yet the journey to the repeating rifle started with the matchlock musket.
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Various Henry guns
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Various range snapshots.
Shooting can be a lot of fun!
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Videographer Darya.
I will be doing more work with her, and she’s probably going to take over most video editing for me. She’s pretty competent with small arms.
She also kicks ass with melee weapons.
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Jay Grazio
We have been friends, sometimes colleagues, for a very long time.
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Walking tall.
11 year old boy with a rifle of 150 year old design.
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Hamilton 27 rifle
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A very lightweight KP15 WWSD
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