You and your company of Home Guards and Scouts have just returned home, the horses have been fed and put up, the pickets have taken up their posts, and all is quiet. With your trusty shotgun by the door, you sit down at the table to enjoy some of Mama's home cooking. Just as you start to eat you hear a picket yell "Halt", followed by a shot.
Suddenly all hell breaks loose and hot lead is flying, bullets striking the cabin like hail from hell's own thunderstorm. Caught by surprise, your men scramble to their stacked weapons. Bushwacker Johnston's Lads of Gray have mounted a cavalry charge and you and your men must regroup, return fire, and repel the attack.
Ammo
5 Pistol, 10 Rifle, 6+ shotgun
Starting Position
Seated at the table, with knife and fork in hand and napkin tucked in shirt collar, safely holstered pistol loaded with five rounds.
Rifle safely staged in rifle rack, seven rounds in magazine.
Shotgun safely staged in corner of cabin, at least two shotshells on your person, at least four shotshells in saddlebags on fence.
Procedure
When ready, shout, "Bushwackers".
At the buzzer, drop utensils, move to window and engage pistol targets in any order.
Engage shotgun targets once each.
Exit cabin through door and Nevada Sweep rifle targets, starting at either end.
Move back into cabin, and, loading only from saddlebags, engage shotgun targets twice each, alternating targets between shots.
John F Carr.
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