Liability insurance unfortunately can't fix stupid.

I was at a Monument Ceremony yesterday, and the firing line I was in had folk who lead me to believe that they were not proficient in the art of Musket handling. The volley’s we fired were awfully embarrassing. Some of the guy’s were well meaning, but the job required of them was not done correctly, or in proper timing. I think a couple of them didn’t know the difference between half cock, and FULL cock.

I remember one event here in Texas some years back where our unit quickly walked off the battlefield. This was because we saw so much miss handling of firearms from a "dis-mounted" group in front of us. These bozo's were taking their loaded sawed-off shotguns, and at "Shoulder arms" were tucking the muzzles directly under their under-arms. I also saw them boys placing the same loaded weapons back over their shoulders, muzzles pointing towards us behind them. I just had the vision of someone’s arm flying thru the air from an accidental discharge in the “shoulder Arms” position.

It is a terribly fine line between the point of before …and AFTER!

Kevin Dally