Part of what we're doing in our work in the Scout camp is interacting with kids who are in the main camp. We do this on Friday night campfire. Prior to the campfire, PathfinderNC and I go up to the camp in our reenacting gear and spend the hour interacting with kids and promoting the black powder program. The guys who run the "rest" of the program don't like us much, maybe cuz we're popular with the kids and they aren't 
We also present awards to outstanding shooters. We (our instructor group) decide on which shooter in a session was the "top shot". That isn't always the best shot because we're looking for the complete package so our criteria are- safety, attitude, marksmanship, improvement, and shooting discipline. We use old donated medals from our National competition so the award isn't something that could be bought anywhere. The idea is these are accolades that have been won in competition and so can be passed from an old shooter to a young one. So a couple pix from last evening.
Kids are always curious. We spent about an hour prior to the campfire interacting with Scouts and promoting the black powder shooting sports.
The arena was full last night.
Our first session "Top Shot". This kid didn't say a lot, but he had a great attitude, he listened, followed instruction, and proceeded to nail every target we put him on. We started with the easy ones and at the end of the session, he was nailing marshmallows offhand with a Civil War musket. He just did not miss. If he ever gets into competition, he'll be a very tough one to beat.
Our second session "Top Shot". He shoots competition already with air rifles in his school so he's familiar with the basics. He was a fun person to be around and very quickly adapted to the quirks of black powder musketry and was nailing everything he shot at.
I'm in mid-War NC Confederate uniform and Bob is Colonial Militia with his Brown Bess. I tell him he's part of the undisciplined rabble....
We also present awards to outstanding shooters. We (our instructor group) decide on which shooter in a session was the "top shot". That isn't always the best shot because we're looking for the complete package so our criteria are- safety, attitude, marksmanship, improvement, and shooting discipline. We use old donated medals from our National competition so the award isn't something that could be bought anywhere. The idea is these are accolades that have been won in competition and so can be passed from an old shooter to a young one. So a couple pix from last evening.Kids are always curious. We spent about an hour prior to the campfire interacting with Scouts and promoting the black powder shooting sports.
The arena was full last night.
Our first session "Top Shot". This kid didn't say a lot, but he had a great attitude, he listened, followed instruction, and proceeded to nail every target we put him on. We started with the easy ones and at the end of the session, he was nailing marshmallows offhand with a Civil War musket. He just did not miss. If he ever gets into competition, he'll be a very tough one to beat.
Our second session "Top Shot". He shoots competition already with air rifles in his school so he's familiar with the basics. He was a fun person to be around and very quickly adapted to the quirks of black powder musketry and was nailing everything he shot at.
I'm in mid-War NC Confederate uniform and Bob is Colonial Militia with his Brown Bess. I tell him he's part of the undisciplined rabble....
