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Badge request 1864 style
on: June 28, 2016, 10:43:14 PM
So going for my shooter badge with some shots from work


Me doing he musketry drill, with a model 1860 Springfield.


The Columbiade firing she is an 8" with a sleeve that makes her 6" but still an original 1856 gun.  Also the largest regularly fired demonstration cannon.


For obvious reasons we don't fire projectiles, but I still need the picture of targets.


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #1 on: June 28, 2016, 11:06:16 PM
Good luck with the badge yud :cheers:


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #2 on: June 28, 2016, 11:17:46 PM
Cool pics yud :tu:
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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #3 on: June 28, 2016, 11:50:26 PM
New shots!   :tu:

What fort is that?


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #4 on: June 28, 2016, 11:55:48 PM
Fort Delaware, right smack in the middle of the Delaware River, and can be gotten to either from Delaware or New Jersey. Built for coastal defense, and made into a POW camp and prison during the Civil War. 


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #5 on: June 29, 2016, 02:34:32 AM
Fort Delaware, right smack in the middle of the Delaware River, and can be gotten to either from Delaware or New Jersey. Built for coastal defense, and made into a POW camp and prison during the Civil War.

Thanks.   :salute:

Only fort I've been to in recent years is Colonial Michilimackinac, a Revolutionary War era fort on the Straits of Mackinac that they're excavating and reconstructing.

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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #6 on: June 29, 2016, 02:50:06 AM
Michilimackinac's interpretation is 1764 (when the British took over following the French and Indian War or Seven Years War).

Love it up there, one of the best living history programs I've seen, although I would like to think that Ft Delaware is on par with them.  They have a great Halloween program, went up there the last couple years, for the haunted fort and kayaking.


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #7 on: June 29, 2016, 04:23:44 AM
Sorry yud, can't allow it. :P First off, there was never a Model 1860 Springfield. They were either Model 1861(long hammer) or 1863 (short hammer, improved springs). Secondly, we need to see a sequence of pics of you working that rifle exactly according to Hardee's Tactics.  We'll wait...... ;)
There's no such thing as "Too pretty to carry".  There's only "Too pretty NOT to carry"...... >:D


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #8 on: June 29, 2016, 04:25:13 AM
BTW, I own an original Model 1861 Springfield. I made payments every weekend for over a year to a dealer for it. Sucker cost more than my first two cars!
There's no such thing as "Too pretty to carry".  There's only "Too pretty NOT to carry"...... >:D


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #9 on: June 29, 2016, 07:19:20 AM
I've been a reenactor and living history presenter for close to 30 years. I'm a paid performer at the Florida Renaissance Festival, but more often all I get out of it is a free dinner or a movie ticket.  How does one become a full time, professional living history presenter?
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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #10 on: June 29, 2016, 01:56:22 PM
Sorry yud, can't allow it. :P First off, there was never a Model 1860 Springfield. They were either Model 1861(long hammer) or 1863 (short hammer, improved springs). Secondly, we need to see a sequence of pics of you working that rifle exactly according to Hardee's Tactics.  We'll wait...... ;)
Knew I should of spent more time in the ordinance room, (honestly we just call them the Springfields), I do the black powder demonstrates mainly to help out so we can have confederate prisoners.  During the drill we do do the whole load by nine times load, then three shots fire at will.

Alan, most of the work out there is seasonal, so it is largely a matter of looking up your favorite sites and applying in the fall and winter (they seem to start working on next year after closing for the season).  Beyond that there are a few museum job boards, and I found my job through "indeed."


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #11 on: June 29, 2016, 11:29:11 PM
It is a 1863 Springfield, and we actually use Casey's infantry tactics. :whistle:


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #12 on: June 30, 2016, 12:54:40 AM
It is a 1863 Springfield, and we actually use Casey's infantry tactics. :whistle:

Casey is simply Hardee under another name. Hardee was a Confederate general, and the US Army decided they would not have his name on the manual since he was a traitor. ;)
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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #13 on: June 30, 2016, 02:29:27 AM
It is a 1863 Springfield, and we actually use Casey's infantry tactics. :whistle:

Casey is simply Hardee under another name. Hardee was a Confederate general, and the US Army decided they would not have his name on the manual since he was a traitor. ;)


Thanks for the information, often I am playing catch up with the civil war.

Also, before I embarrass myself anymore I am not nor have I ever claimed to be a Civil War historian or renactor (therefore I am not up on the minutiae of the Civil War).  And most of my personal interest is in the naval side of the war and in Fort Delaware (and finding answers to any questions that the answer is "I don't know" happens a lot more then you might think)

From what I can tell, Casey is an update of Hardee due to some changes in technology, likewise Hardee was an update of Scott.  That said our interpretation is of a Federal fort in 1864 therefore
We use Casey and Hardee can hang.

Right now I am trying to work out if we had horses on the island, because I want to stop being asked about horse shoes. And how to fix my bottle opener.

JD if you ever come down our way let me know, I'd like to hear about all the problems in the ordinance room. :D


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #14 on: July 02, 2016, 09:27:15 AM
Awarded.   :tu:   :tu:


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Reply #15 on: July 02, 2016, 02:04:58 PM
Thanks  :rofl:


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #16 on: July 02, 2016, 04:12:29 PM
Wow. Really cool, Yud :tu:
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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #17 on: July 04, 2016, 05:00:55 AM
BTW, I own an original Model 1861 Springfield. I made payments every weekend for over a year to a dealer for it. Sucker cost more than my first two cars!

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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #18 on: July 04, 2016, 05:42:17 AM
 :hatsoff: Thanks for the information.


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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #19 on: July 04, 2016, 06:16:17 AM
BTW, I own an original Model 1861 Springfield. I made payments every weekend for over a year to a dealer for it. Sucker cost more than my first two cars!

Cars are over rated.

Yeah, I'd rather have the rifle.....
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Re: Badge request 1864 style
Reply #20 on: July 04, 2016, 06:19:36 AM
BTW, I own an original Model 1861 Springfield. I made payments every weekend for over a year to a dealer for it. Sucker cost more than my first two cars!

Cars are over rated.

Yeah, I'd rather have the rifle.....

:D


 

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