It included running around town, going to the range several times (start with shotgun, then go find your cache, then go the the archery or airgun range, pistol range, and finally the blackpowder). Prizes were ammunition.
Anyway, the rangemaster and I loaded the ML rifles for the shooters. We had a blackpowder coach instructing them and two people to pass the smoke poles between the shooters and the loaders.
It was very much like a Civil War or Revolutionary War battle where there was only one shooter and everybody loaded for them as fast as they could. Having a loading stand, powder measure, short starters make it easy for the loaders. Still, it gives you another insight into the those battles as you load as rapidly as it was safely possible and then passed the smokepole back to the handler. For one thing, it's easier to concentrate on one thing (shooters shoot at the gongs, handlers relieve them of their discharged smokepole and hand them a freshly loaded one, then hand the loaders the discharged smokepole, loaders then load and hand back a loaded smokepole).
Try it sometime when you have two or three buddies with you. Get six or so targets out there and one round would entail shooting all targets and having it timed. Trade places when everyone has performed each task. You can score it by # of shots and amount of time it took to hit all targets.
Anyway, the rangemaster and I loaded the ML rifles for the shooters. We had a blackpowder coach instructing them and two people to pass the smoke poles between the shooters and the loaders.
It was very much like a Civil War or Revolutionary War battle where there was only one shooter and everybody loaded for them as fast as they could. Having a loading stand, powder measure, short starters make it easy for the loaders. Still, it gives you another insight into the those battles as you load as rapidly as it was safely possible and then passed the smokepole back to the handler. For one thing, it's easier to concentrate on one thing (shooters shoot at the gongs, handlers relieve them of their discharged smokepole and hand them a freshly loaded one, then hand the loaders the discharged smokepole, loaders then load and hand back a loaded smokepole).
Try it sometime when you have two or three buddies with you. Get six or so targets out there and one round would entail shooting all targets and having it timed. Trade places when everyone has performed each task. You can score it by # of shots and amount of time it took to hit all targets.