Mark your calendars, October 28 - 30, 2011. Kansas Vigilance Committee (NCOWS) will be hosting The Grand Army of the Frontier (GAF) Grand Muster. The muster will be at Garnett , Kansas (zip code 66032) 75 miles SW of Kansas City, MO. (N38* 15.363” / W095* 12.992”) Registration will be open to anyone (GAF, NCOWS, SASS) and will be limited to 30 shooters.
Registration forms will be available on the dispatches page of the Grand Army's Web site at a later date. Registration fee will be $65.00 per shooter. Extra Saturday night meal for non-shooters $10.00 each.
This muster will be a primitive camping event (pre-1900), meal will be provided Saturday night, all other meals can be bought from Buck our chuck wagon cook ( four meals for $25.00 (Friday night, Saturday breakfast & lunch and Sunday breakfast), or participants can cook your own meals (wood provided). For those that do not want to do the primitive camping there is the Garnett Inn and RV Park (Sheila Woosley 785-448-6800 or
www.garnettinnandrvpark.com) located 2.5 miles from the range. The planned activities include: A 200 yd target long range rifle match, a shorter long range pistol match and a GAF Expansion Era Match on Friday, Five steel target main match. One stage will be of the skirmish format in the woods. Bring plenty of ammo; there will be a few knock down targets. Exact round counts will be given later. If you have any items for sale or trade, bring them and setup a trade blanket. Please let me know if you are planning to attend so we can have an idea for the awards to order.
Windy City Joe
windy-city-joe@ncows.org