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Goodbye Timothy Murphy Memorial DAR

Started by Big H, September 10, 2010, 08:33:39 AM

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Big H

Goodbye to the Timothy Murphy Memorial Dedicated Appleseed Range in Slippery Rock, PA. Thanks Cowdog for hosting and helping spread Appleseed in western PA. Your hospitality and work are much appreciated.

Your Appleseed volunteers are working on alternate plans for Oct 2-3. Stay tuned.

We are always looking for new ranges, so if you know a range where the leaders are open to hosting rifle marksmanship and American Heritage civic involvement clinics, let us know!

B9

Replacement location for the Oct shoot...  http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=13391.0

Not sure when "official" but should be soon.
"It's very hard to engineer another countries liberation...people have to liberate themselves. Unfortunately in history, many people get killed..."
Medea Benjamin

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Cowdog, thanks so much.  And thanks for all of the BOTG work, including that with the Slippery Rock Sportsmans Club.

Gang, we've had an Appleseed at SRSC (B9's link above).  It's nice.  Nice people.

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franklinfarmer


This is a little (well more than a little) off topic in this thread, but maybe someone can help me out.  Recently, there was posted a link to a lengthy description of the accomplishments of Timothy Murphy including info on the battles of Saratoga and the role of Daniel(?) Morgan and his rifleman company.  I wanted to print the article, but I was on a computer without a printer, and now I've lost the thread, link, and all.

Anybody know the thread/link?

FF
It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen is the one who least needs governing. The answer to big government is not private freedom, but private responsibility.

--Wendell Berry, "The Loss of the Future" in The Long-Legged House  (1969)

The problem is not Democrats.  The problem is Republicans who lack the intellectual clarity to become libertarians and libertarians who lack the physical discipline to become riflemen.  ---Kenneth Royce

voortrekker

Quote from: franklinfarmer on September 10, 2010, 03:18:05 PM

This is a little (well more than a little) off topic in this thread, but maybe someone can help me out.  Recently, there was posted a link to a lengthy description of the accomplishments of Timothy Murphy including info on the battles of Saratoga and the role of Daniel(?) Morgan and his rifleman company.  I wanted to print the article, but I was on a computer without a printer, and now I've lost the thread, link, and all.

Anybody know the thread/link?

FF


Here's good link on what you are looking for FF  :  http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/history/american/4459-the-american-rifleman-in-the-revolutionary-war.

From a historical perspective, in my mind, it is pretty amazing that one man that knows how to shoot his rifle accurately, could be the key stone to winning a battle wherein thousands of soldiers participated.


"Morgan called for Sergeant Timothy Murphy, his finest sharpshooter, and said, "That gallant officer is General Fraser. I admire him, but it is necessary that he should die. Do your duty."

From other accounts, I have understood that Murphy was shooting a double barreled flintlock rifle that day.  Resting his rifle on a branch in the tree he climbed, is first shot missed Fraser.  His second shot hit it's mark.

It is also important to realize, the American rifle corps in the Revolutionary War knew the shortcomings of the conventional soldier's musket's  trajectory.

As a result, many, many British officers died by the barrel of "backwoods common folk" that knew their rifle very well.




No congac for you tonight General, rum for the Riflemen instead.    ^-^
If YOU are thinking, WE are winning.

Big H


EZ3

Did Cowdog give his permission to remain listed as the contact?  If not, maybe we had better put my contact info on there instead.  I will be available until Friday evening if anyone has questions about the shoot, and I will forward to Shawn (LBOTG) anything I can't handle.
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