Shooter 575: I clicked on The History Channel last night at 11 PM and saw a lot of friendly , familiar black powder shooters on the new showing of our Artillery Games at Camp Graying. We missed the Long Range Historic Artillery Shoot that Matt Switlak and Loomis Battery put on each year at Grayling .The segment that really got my attention was John Well's Parrot black powder gun crew out shooting a modern Canadian Artilley Light Gun section for accuracy in direct fire at long range. The Canadian gun crew looked proficient, but they did'nt put a ball through the target at the rangesour Civil WarRed Legsnormally shoot even though the had a lazer range finer on their modern cannon. If I remember correctly Norm Gibson laid the muzzle loader and John Wells checked it. It ain't how good your gun is -it's how good you can shoot it. John was pulling the laynard for his friction primersalmost straight back to keep from pulling the tube out of line of sight. We have been using a burning rope on a linstock on our twoold, origional Model 1841 six pounders, but Norm Gibson and the 1st South Carolina still whoops us.This is one show I'll order a tape from The History Channel to keep along with the ones we have from the American Shooter.There was a post on www. n-ssa.org that this years Artillery Games would not conflict with a Skirmish-hope so.Merry ChristmasBill Klaus