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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
Hi Stu! Thank you for the kind greetings and a happy new year to you too!
We have pretty much grounded the bookmobile for the time being in the southern sector of Texas....it gets to freezing at times but when it rains the temp gets into the 50's to high sixties....temp ranges of 30 degrees + are pretty normal.
I had an experience years ago in Arkansas....way, way out in the middle of nowhere in the Ozarks where there are guys who still shoot with muzzle loaders, and in Tennessee where I lived a while many still use bow and arrow to hunt (actually a wide range of hunters nationwide). With next to little experience with guns, I fired a muzzle loader, and believe it or not hit my target straight on. Pretty effective I would imagine with a really good shot! All the smoke and sparks, take that and multiply by many hundreds and you can imagine what a huge battle like Waterloo must have been like....and how visibility would quickly disappear in the acrid smoke.
All the best,
Jim
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Don't worry about Waterloo. I used to shoot black powder guns at ground game (rabbits etc) and on a still day it was hard enough to see if the first shot actually hit. Great fun though, but in very dry conditions it was possible to set the dry stubble alight with still glowing wadding! Result was dead and cooked meat all at once if things got out of hand!!
