American Patriot Sharpshooter Award Series Rifle Caliber: .22 LR only. We are using this caliber so that there is a standard for earning the awards. Further, shooting a .22 LR at 100, 200, 300 and 400 yards to earn these awards is very challenging. The bullet drop is substantial, and the effect of wind on your shot can be very great. The experience should be of great assistance in shooting larger calibers. Following are future awards in process of drafting.
Morgan's Rifles Sharpshooter Award:	Rifle (with or without scope); Cartridge: . Range: 100 yards; Target size: 6" diameter targets; shooting position: standing only (sling allowed / no other support); time limit ___ minutes: (in process) (prone, kneeling, sitting, standing)
Morgan's Rifles Distinguished Sharpshooter Award:	Rifle (with or without scope); Cartridge: .Range: 200 yards; Target size: 6" diameter targets; shooting position: standing only (sling allowed / no other support); time limit ___ minutes: (in process) (prone, kneeling, sitting, standing).
Battle of Great Bridge Award ( December 9, 1775) Photos 1 ; Photos 2	Read the history behind this award. Read about the Culpeper Minutemen The complete defeat of the British in the Virginia Colony at the Battle of Great Bridge on December 9, 1775, seven months before the Declaration of Independence, was at the time called the Second Battle of Bunker Hill. It resulted in the capture of Norfolk by the Patriots and the bombardment and complete destruction of Norfolk three weeks later on January 1, 1776. It ended the rule of the British Crown in Virginia. ...As Fordyce and his troops drew close to the patriot position, some eighty patriots rose up, took sure aim, and delivered a devastating volley at the approaching troops. Fordyce fell with fourteen bullets only fifteen steps from the breastwork. Numerous British fell and the remainder retreated in confusion. British field pieces at the bridge continued to fire but reinforcements of the patriot breastwork and crossfire from the flanking patriot positions discouraged any further advances by the British. In some twenty-five minutes, Dunmore's attempt to squash patriot buildup near Norfolk was emphatically turned back.
Battles of Lexington and Concord	Minuteman Image
AudieMurphy Sharpshooter Award	Read the history behind this award.
Alvin York Sharpshooter Award	Read the history behind this award.
Flags Over America

Our Motto:

"Exercising the American Bill of Rights."

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Bennington

Battle of Bennington

The Battle of Bennington

Flags

NY MILITIA

Notes:

Madison in, Federalist No. 46, wrote of "the advantage of being armed, which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation." His description of the militia..

Citizens with their arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence.

He finally noted that in the "several kingdoms of Europe ... governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them...."

Quoted from Joseph Story* in, “Commentaries on the Constitution” (1833).

* Former Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court

"...The one thing that is absolute is that the Second Amendment guarantees a personal and individual right to keep and bear arms, and prohibits government from disarming the people...."

Quoted from: Silveira v. Lockyer - Dissent by: Judge Kozinski.