Westerlo NY AAA C&M shoot July 11&12

[thelionspaw]

Anyone going?

[cannonmn]

In case anyone doesn't know where it is, its sorta midway between Wolf Hill and Medeusa.  Take your silver bullets!

[thelionspaw]

Don't listen to him. Garlic is just as good and cheaper

[Cat Whisperer]

Don't listen to him. Garlic is just as good and cheaper

Hmmm.  I've never shot Garlic.  Do you have a recommended service loading?

[thelionspaw]

Actually, a good "Mechanic" rubs the nose with garlic in keeping with the tradition that even a wound will be fatal by inducing septicemia. Hollow nose is best

Rocco

[thelionspaw]

CANCELLED because of mud.

[Cannoneer]

A little mud wouldn't have stopped General Washington's favorite artilleryman, Henry Knox, even though Knox weighed around 300 lbs. 

[thelionspaw]

Ahhhh???  At 300 lbs, it's no wonder they named a fort after him.

The last time I was to the AAA shoot at Westerlo, it was about 25 years ago.

Darn!  Twenty-five years of careful planning up in a puff of smoke.  Oh well! 

So instead; on Saturday afternoon we'll attend a Colonial Artillery grenade mortar (and maybe cannon) demo' in Hurley, N.Y. during the "Stone House Tour".

It will be at the original colonial stone building which became the temporary NYS capital, after the "British urban renewal project" that burned the capital (Kingston) to the ground. 

It was practice for the burning of Washington during the War of 1812.  An example of another "Capital Offense"? 

As the man inferred;  we owe alot to the British.  As a result, I now live in "New Kingston" and we drag our cannons all over the world. "Have gun; will travel" They taught us well.

[Cannoneer]

So instead; on Saturday afternoon we'll attend a Colonial Artillery grenade mortar (and maybe cannon) demo' in Hurley, N.Y. during the "Stone House Tour".

Sounds good Rich; you're lucky to be in your neck of the woods when it comes to Colonial Reenactment events, around here (midwest) the focus is mostly on the Civil War.