How Many Rounds at Gettysburg

[Diplogeek]

Hello all,

Gettysburg is going to be my first major event, and I was just curious how many rounds I should expect to use at an event of this size. I know there can be a lot of variation from person to person, depending on how fast you load and fire and whether or not you tend to take a lot of hits. I'm not at the point yet where I load fast enough to qualify as a real powder burner, and I don't have a problem taking a hit or anything like that.

I've got 400+ rounds for the first Gettysburg, so I think I'm covered there, but I'd like some input on how much I should expect to need for the second event, since I'm going to both and will want to roll some rounds during that intervening week. Thoughts?

 

[Craig L Barry]

That would emptying out your cartridge box for every one of ten battles...400 rounds, I doubt I use that many in a year doing park service historic weapons demos.

 

[kfranklin]

100 rounds is probably fair. That's what I will be going in with for the 3 days.

 

[Diplogeek]

I figured I was in okay shape, but one of the guys in my unit said we were all told to bring 400 rounds just for BGA, so I was a little concerned, especially since I probably won't have time to get powder and roll more rounds in between the two events. 400 seemed like I could take on the whole Reb army, but I'm new to this, so I wasn't sure. Of course, I can always take a hit if it looks like I'm running low.

 

[kfranklin]

I figured I was in okay shape, but one of the guys in my unit said we were all told to bring 400 rounds just for BGA, so I was a little concerned, especially since I probably won't have time to get powder and roll more rounds in between the two events. 400 seemed like I could take on the whole Reb army, but I'm new to this, so I wasn't sure. Of course, I can always take a hit if it looks like I'm running low.

Yeah...400 might be much... I do plan to have about 150 just in case. I also only plan to use about 10, then turn a run like a coward