So we're having a pretty successful set of sessions teaching safety and marksmanship with Scouts at camp. But after many conversations surrounding how the arms were employed, both the "mountain man" round ball stuff and the muskets, we started having live volley fire at the end if the kids seem to really grasp what we've been teaching. Volley fire target is a 3ft square piece of drywall. We instructors load and stand very close to the Scouts for safety and the drill is modified a bit for the kids. Their instructions are to aim center mass and pull the trigger at the FIRE command. Even with only 4 guns on the line at the time, drywall chunks fly and the kids have a ball doing it. So a few pix-
ATTENTION! FRONT RANK! READY!
AIM!!
FIRE!!!
and the camera battery promptly died of fright from the noise and smoke inhalation.....
ATTENTION! FRONT RANK! READY!
AIM!!
FIRE!!!
and the camera battery promptly died of fright from the noise and smoke inhalation.....