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Activities are picking bullet impact areas from the rifle up and work parties are moving ranges while walking in the forward with their projects. Keep During the youth and mentored woods nearby. checking the schedule and partic- season hunting will be for at ipate when you can after all this is Be safe! - be a good sportsmen! club. *********************************** Antlerless deer may also be taking A thank you once again to those during the early (Oct 23-25) who helped at the March work Junior/Senior and Handicap sea- party and those who showed up son. in April. A lot has been accom- plished and yet a lot more to do. You must possess an antlerless There is always something more license from the Game Commis- to do. sion and obey all Game Commis- sion laws during your hunts as in In the near future a concrete pad other areas of the Common- and covering is going to be in- wealth. stalled and what will be an addi- tional 100 yard range between We, your Board of Directors, are the pistol and rifle ranges. A implementing these restrictions in 842 W 4th St drainpipe was installed in this Lewistown, PA an attempt to bring the deer herd 717- 242-0061 area during the April 12th work (male/female) ratio into a more M-Th 9-5/Fri 9-9/Sat 9-3 session. Most of this is made pos- realistic balance than we appar- Indoor Archery Range sible by a grant from the NRA to ently now have. To achieve this the Mifflin County Sportsmen's goal your cooperation is needed *********************************** Association. This is another rea- and expected. son why I would encourage all members to join the NRA if you In order to track the deer har- are not yet a member. vested we need to record your harvest. You are expected to I encourage you to enjoy the Membership meetings are held complete the form located at the every first Thursday of the events and facilities but above all clubhouse next to the entry door. be safe and be a good sportsmen. month. Join us for fellowship and This will only take a few minutes updates. Also you can vote on of your time. It is important to issues addressed at the meeting. know what impact you are having Offer suggestions and give us on the deer herd. For the upcoming 2014-2015 your insight into the issues affect- license year if you hunt Associa- ing all gun owners. tion property: Dues for 2014: Single - $60.00 Members having deer stands on Family - $70.00 Association property are asked to We will be adding NRA numbers Some of you knew what this car- shape of the cartridge. Plus it to membership applications. This is tridge was, (I suspect) even with- was self contained ammunition, needed to help secure larger grants out the clues. For the rest of you, which was more durable than pa- from the NRA. We are trying to get these cartridges are generation per wrapped cartridges, on the enough money to cover the new one (left) and generation two battlefield. In theory it worked 100 yard range. The new range is between the 1000 yard rifle range (right), of the same cartridge. pretty well, but the Spencer rifle and the large pistol range. This cartridge was created by one soon replaced the Burnside. Not of the most ineffective generals of only was it a better system, but Free discount card available with the American Civil war, Ambrose proved easier to load multiple membership. Burnside, thus the name .54 (cal- cartridges at once, thru the butt iber) Burnside. If you remember of the rifle. Remember to check the web site my clue: ”Most men have them.”, before you travel any distance to the that’s right the only other thing I have good news for any of you Association. General Burnside is remembered that have or know someone that for is, what today we call “Side- does have one of these old rifles. S burns”. One look at any of his Have you ever wondered what it pictures explains why this is the would be like to fire it? There is case. a company in Michigan that Last time we got together, I had makes a clear plastic cartridge no title for this column, and While it was rumored that he also case for this rifle. These new cas- posed a few questions. As you invented the same cartridge in .52 es have made the firing of the can see, I now have a title. I cal, no cartridge like that has Burnside carbine a renewed pres- could take credit for coming up been found to date. The only cal- ence in the Civil War Reenact- with it, but I’d be lying. It was iber sold to the US Government, ment world. recommended to me in a very was the .54 Burnside (with the nice email, by a sweet lady who is rifle to shoot it). also a shooter. I thank her, and her explanation for it, which we Gen. Burnside’s rifle was a failed Since this column will be on dis- will get into at another time. attempt to bridge the gap between play for your reading from now the Hall carbine, the standard until late July. I have a personal Remember last time, I showed long barreled muzzle loader and request to make of you that will you this picture, and asked “Real the read it. As I am writing this, we or Fake”? breech loader style rifle, like the are coming up on Memorial Day “Trapdoor Springfield.”. The weekend. Burnside carbine’s action front flipped up, the cartridge was in- My mind is awash in the thoughts serted, and then closed to fit the of those that have come before, barrel. Once fired, the cartridge and those that will follow after was quickly pulled from the front me. Memorial Day reminds us of of the open breech. If there was the high price paid by those who any expansion of the brass case, it have purchased the life I and oth- could be quickly dug out of the ers live, with their bodies, minds, breach. The rifle blood and treasure. All my life loading/unloading was faster than I’ve heard of the people who gave a muzzle loading rifle, and this their body’s or lives to get our speed was aided by the tapered country to where it was when it crets, so it goes, from one gener- Stop, and take time to remember ation to the next. You already the unseen empty seat at your know one of those secrets, but table. Remember the Fallen, the there are others just as important. Missing, and Unknown Millions Another one is, while other coun- that got you, and your family, tries march their military for con- that comfortable life you have quest of land and wealth, ours been accustom to living. Honor has always been sent to free oth- them by making sure your chil- ers from those conquests. And dren and/or grandchildren know Memorial Day shows us, we do their stories. “Call of Duty” may Moulin Roudge end up acquiring some land, in be a great X-Box game, but for Gifts with a touch of Class! the form of burial plots for our some it was their life. Which they fallen. gave for a reason, see that you truly earn their “last full mea- 20% OFF Another secret, we have become sure” of duty. way to accustom with, to even With MCSA Card think about in our daily lives is; First, let me make a promise to we’ve seen so many people, that future readers. My pictures of 717-247-2710 10153 US Hwy Rt 522 S would trade everything they have cartridges will get better. Lewistown, PA 17044 just for an opportunity to come 10 - 5 PM to, where we came from. Don’t Closed Sunday get me wrong, our country is not perfect, but I can only think of a *********************************** few others (of the over 226 Na- was my generations turn to an- tions on this earth), that people swer the call of duty. My genera- are risking their lives to get to, tion, like other before it was willingly leaving their homelands, called to a foreign battlefield for friends, and relatives behind. reasons so few understood, and as we served we watched as some I hope the reader will not mind never returned. With that service my diverting from what you several great secrets, cloaked in thought you would read here, if I the fog of time, were revealed.