APS Gunnery School

[Gray Ghost]

A friend of mine from my civil war unit has a water cooled and air cooled 30 caliber MG that is fully automatic. He is interested in doing WWII and I came up with the idea of him being a gunnery instructor. What I am working on now is having a camp where members of the APS can come and take part in gunnery exercises with the MG and shotguns as well as working with the silouettes. I think that it would be fun and would award gunnery wings and certificates when the school is completed. What do yall think? Anyone not in the APS would be welcomed to join in as well.

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[Sgt Brown]

GG,

Typical Reb! You come up with a great idea just when my physical condition keeps me from attending! I will pass your idea on to the other members of the Ohio and PA Wings and see what happens.

Matt, You can pass it on to the Cap Wing.

Tom
(33 years 7th Ohio Vol Inf N-SSA)

 

[cco23i]

Hell guys come out here to Utah and soon we will have the 1000 yard range and the tail gun position gunnery pit for the B-29!

Scott

 

[Gray Ghost]

Scott, sounds great. Hope I can attend. Really need to get money together for Bomber Camp.

Tom, I have been with the 1st NC Volunteers / 11th Regiment NC Troops for approximatately 28 years. I have done Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, and Guerilla. Rode with the James Gang for awhile as well. One thing I have never done is go Yank. My grandpappy would come back from the dead and skin me alive. LOL. I am not above wearing yankee blue with my guerilla shirt underneath and a brace of colts. LOL. Always good to hear from another War Against Northern Agrression Reenactor even if he is on the other side.

=GG=

 

[cco23i]

Hell fellas I am covered, one side fought with the 9th and 14th Indiana and one side fought with the 18th ALabama!

Scott

 

[Sgt Brown]

Hell fellas I am covered, one side fought with the 9th and 14th Indiana and one side fought with the 18th ALabama!

Scott

So those rumors that you swing both ways are true!

Tom

 

[Sgt Brown]

Gray Ghost,

I have never reenacted CW. I'm in the N-SSA which does Civil War live fire - carbines, muskets, mortars and artillery.

But the fact remains, I'm still a Yankee!:eusa_clap:thumb::usa2:

Tom

 

[cco23i]

So those rumors that you swing both ways are true!

Tom

Only in wool baby! I have a good friend from West Virginia who's a die hard reb, well first I harrass him for being from there AND then we found out from his wife he had relatives in a New York regiment, so we call him a closet yankee!

Scott

 

[Gray Ghost]

Gray Ghost,

I have never reenacted CW. I'm in the N-SSA which does Civil War live fire - carbines, muskets, mortars and artillery.

But the fact remains, I'm still a Yankee!:eusa_clap:thumb::usa2:

Tom

Sounds like a lot of fun. I have shot live with my weapons but never in competiton. I have an 1853 Enfield 3 band made in Italy and an 1858 Parker Hale Enfield made in England. My Parker Hale is of the type used by Confederate Sharpshooters. I portray them sometimes. Never had any ancestors fight for the Union but I do respect the ones that did have and respect their ancestors as well.

=GG=

 

[cco23i]

Me, I'm in love with my 1870 trapdoor rifle, yup a great shooter!

Scott

 

[thecardigankid]

Me, I'm in love with my 1870 trapdoor rifle, yup a great shooter!

Scott

I've got my great great grandfathers 1873 trapdoor carbine that coincidentally was issued to him during the Spanish American war. Definitely a sweet weapon.

 

[cco23i]

OOOH! Take some pics and send them!

Scott

 

[Sgt Brown]

Aerial gunnery to various and sundry muskets! To get back on track...

Have any of you guys seen one of these? It is an electric turret with two 12 ga shotguns installed in place of the twin 50's. It was used against the Luftwaffe's dreaded clay pigeons in gunnery school. I would KILL to get my hands on one of these boogers!

Tom

 

[cco23i]

That's what we use for our bomber camp BUT Taigh only uses one shotgun!

Scott

 

[MPicciotto]

Well here is a piece of the rig:

http://forum.pafoa.org/firearms-6/137086-wwii-remington-model-11-aerial-trainer.html

Matt

 

[Phantomfixer]

Matt, please do not encourage these guys. I have been following this thread with interest. I see 1865 repeating itself!!!!

 

[Sgt Brown]

That's what we use for our bomber camp BUT Taigh only uses one shotgun!

Scott

Something along the lines of this?

Tom

 

[cco23i]

NOPE, like this: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b12/cco23i/Instructorsatdarangesensored-1.jpg

 

[Gray Ghost]

Well here is a piece of the rig:

http://forum.pafoa.org/firearms-6/137086-wwii-remington-model-11-aerial-trainer.html

Matt

I would really love to find a aerial spade handle mount like this. I think it would be great for the gunnery school. My father trained on one of these. I could probably have one made.

=GG=

 

[Gray Ghost]

NOPE, like this: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b12/cco23i/Instructorsatdarangesensored-1.jpg

Scott,

Can you send me pictures of this one? I am thinking about building one from scratch. It may not be exact but it would be close.

=GG=