He might have hit him in the Parrot Head!
Posted on 10/01/2008 4:44:57 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
I’m thankful it wasn’t a Parrot rifle.
Chuck Norris doesn't wing 'em.....;-)
Over my 15 years in re-enacting, I have seen thankfully few injuries. Most of these seemed to have been caused by carelessness or excitement, but a couple by alcohol or other mind-altering substances.
My battery will not hesitate to pull our guns off the field if we think an event is not safe. I scouted one event near me this season to see if it would be worth adding to our schedule next year, but I am vetoing it because of the carelessness and drunkenness I saw.
When we do soldiers’ grave marker dedication services, I’m always impressed with the Parrot rifle firing its three volleys accompanying the seven riflemen. The black powder smoke really drives home the experience those men (of both sides) experienced, especially realizing most of those men walked upright right into the ranges of those weapons.
Gotta love my bubbas. This must have been on a Friday pay day after work and the liquor store!!!!
American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God...
I swear to Dixie, I was nowhere near Windsor, Va.
I'm with the Army of Tennessee, and besides, I most generally carry a LeMat and shot-gun.
Guns are not meant to be looked at and held up for envy. What you did was exactly what was meant to happen. You used it and learned how to defend yourself and your family’s home. Enjoy those memories nost of all.
I was just awondering if you was up there defending the Dear South from them Ugly Yankees.
I am doin what can be done. Though I would note that in several counties of southern Indiana and Illinois, there were towns where formations of young men left their communities heading south as a unit to avoid Yankee conscription and jine up with their Southron cousins.
There was also at least one wreck of a Yankee troop train near Washington, IN, near Tunnelton. Whether poor maintenance and increased wartime rail traffic caused a genuine accident or the event was the result of actions by Dixie agents, Copperhead sympathizers or both is not certain, though still suspected.
Not all the hens in the coop will have the West Nile virus, we know there is some good Yankees. Even the odd ones in heavily infected states such as Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.
A few more of these incidents, and the Civil War might start over it.
He might have hit him in the Parrot Head!
As the song The Devil's Right Hand says:
My first pistol was a cap and ball Colt,
shoot as fast as lightening, but she loads a mite slow..
There was also at least one wreck of a Yankee troop train near Washington, IN, near Tunnelton. Whether poor maintenance and increased wartime rail traffic caused a genuine accident or the event was the result of actions by Dixie agents, Copperhead sympathizers or both is not certain, though still suspected.
A mirror image of what happened in the mountain regions of the South. I had relatives take to the hills to avoid Confederate conscription and then joined up with the Union army when the liberators from the North came. Others didn't wait and crossed the mountains and rivers to join the US Army early in the war.
There even was a mirror image suspicious troop train accident in our old home county of Bradley in Tennessee when a reb troop train had a deadly derailment near the small hamlet of McDonald.
The presence of Confederate sympathizers in the North and Union sympathizers in the South would suggest that the conflict was more a civil war and less a war between the states.
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