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Snow Shoe Men Patrols

2/21/2011

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BILL OF RIGHTS FILMS

"2AToday for The USA"

Copy at LassenSharpshooters.com

"No Guns for Negroes" (racist history of American gun control laws)

Oath Keepers

10 Orders

Principles of Republic

Also see video

Rattlesnakes, Ticks ...
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Shasta Chain Control

Shingletown Cam is located on the north side of HWY 44 in Shingletown

Lassen Park Cam is located in Shasta County on the south side of eastbound HWY 44 at the Lassen Park North Entrance

Bogard Rest Area Cam is located in Lassen County on SR44 at the entrance to Bogard Rest Area

Summer - Minuteman Cross Country Biathlon

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Biathlon Date: SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

PHOTOS AND RESULTS <<-- CLICK

.22 LR Course  (rifle) / Cross Country Mountain Run. Timed cross country run with shooting competition.  Mountain terrain. Venturing Crews and BSA. Location: Hat Creek Rifle and Pistol. (Flyer, Registration Package, Schedule, and Rules & Procedures are below)

4th Annual

Celebration of the Armed Citizen Militias of the

American Revolution.

"Liberty or Death"

 

Below from prior year - to change

 

American Minuteman Pledge

Registration Form

Media Waiver Form

Firearms Authorization form

BIATHLON DETAILS AND REGISTRATION PACKAGE  

Map to Event

SUMMER BIATHLON SCHEDULE

BIATHLON RULES AND PROCEDURES

Biathlon Individual SHIRT Identification Forms

Biathlon Individual Hit Record

Biathlon Individuals Score Sheet Summary (Hit and Time Record)  

Biathlon Final Results - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, (by category) 

Biathlon SCORING MASTER CONTROL SHEET (VER. 8/16/2007) (EXCEL) **

Award - Sample of Certificate to be issued

 

The Shot Heard Around The World

On this day — April 19, 1775 — where "once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard 'round the world," the War for Independence had now begun!

Click to watch The Shot Heard Around The World

 

FOLLOWING RESOURCES (BELOW) TO BE UPDATED FOR EVENT

Flyer for Minuteman Biathlon

Venturing Getaway Flyer for Weekend, including Biathlon

(**See How Scoring is done at the bottom of this page)

Biathlon Certificate of Appreciation

New England Ancestors.org

Ranger Tomahawks

Vietnam Tomahawk

http://www.armyranger.com/learn/history/revolution.php

 

Minuteman Biathlon Opening Ceremony :Star Spangled Banner USAF (play it loud and proud)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Militia / American Revolutionary War Flags and Historical Information

April 19, 1775  The government goes door to door confiscating firearms.  Gun fire results - soldiers (i.e., government troops) vs. the militia (i.e., farmboys, drovers, carpenters, laborers, and school teachers, etc...). The American Revolution is ignited!

 

MILITIA FLAG

DESCRIPTION

Bedford Militia Flag

Bedford Militia - Original Roster

Bedford Militia - April 19, 1775

www.bedfordminutemancompany.org

The Latin inscription "Vince Aut Morire" means "Conquer or Die". The arm emerging from the clouds represents the arm of God

Green Mountain Boys Flag

Green Mountain Boys Militia

Culpeper Minuteman Flag 

Moultrie Flag

Gadsden Flag

Gostelowe Standard No. 10, c. 1776

Revolutionary Battle Flag
Like this one, many battle flags of the American Revolution carried religious inscriptions."Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God"

Gostelowe Standard No. 10, c. 1776
Watercolor once in possession of Edward W. Richardson. Copyprint
Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
and Its Color Guard (91)

 

Hanover Associators

They resolved: 'that in the event of Great Britain attempting to force unjust laws upon us by strength of arms, our cause we leave to Heaven and our rifles.'

Source: "Flags to Color from the American Revolution."

This flag belongs to the Hanover Associators, and is on page 17. The colors are listed as "Red field and trim on cap; yellow fringe and scroll; black lettering and cap; green ground and uniform with cream legs, trim, feather and powder horn; brown belt and light blue rifle barrel."

"The Hanover Association of volunteers was formed on June 4, 1774, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They resolved 'that in the event of Great Britain attempting to force unjust laws upon us by strength of arms, our cause we leave to Heaven and our rifles.' The rifleman on the flag shows this point. This flag no longer exists, and the authority for it is an ancient engraving in the Pennsylvania State Archives." Randy Young, 1 February 2001

Veteran Exempts Flag

September Eleventh 1814 - The Battles at Plattsburgh

By Keith Herkalo

Both Roosevelt and Churchill recognized the strategic and political importance of the land and naval battles of Plattsburgh on September 11th, 1814. Yet time and other events can obscure facts, and the United States' second war for independence became a forgotten war, the Battles at Plattsburgh lost in the "rockets red glare" of Baltimore.

In this text, Keith Herkalo, using personal journals, military journals, contemporary newspaper accounts, and other original source documents, examines the evidence that leads to the conclusion that the Battles at Plattsburgh, on land and on Lake Champlain, were the key battles of the War of 1812. The other battles, Baltimore, Washington, and Sackets Harbor, were ruses meant to divert United States troops away from the prize: Plattsburgh, Lake Champlain, and a clear pathway into New England.

If not for the explemlary talents and skills of two young military officers, Commodore Thomas Macdonough and General Alexander Macomb, a small force of regular army and naval personnel and New York Militia, a few thousand Vermont Militia, a handful of Native Americans and Veteran Exempts (those too old for military service), and a group of boys from the local school, the United States, as we know it today, would not exist.

HOW THE MINUTEMAN BIATHLON SCORING IS DONE

The above SCORING MASTER CONTROL SHEET reflects the following scoring methods:
Each Marksman's Total Score (and ranking) will be a combined  total of  his/her Race Score and his/her Hit Score determined as follows for each category ( i.e., Categories are: BSA Scope; BSA IRON; Venturing Scope; Venturing IRON):

Each running portion of the Biathlon will be scored using the following Percent Back System:

                  Marksman's  % Back = (2-(Marksman's  Time / Scoring Base)) X100

                  (The Running Scoring Base is the average time of the top three finishers)

(Formula Source: 2005 IBU Summer Biathlon World Championships)

Each Target Hit portion of the Biathlon  will be scored as follows:

                  (Marksman's Hits / Hit Scoring Base) X 120.

                  (The Hit Scoring Base is the average Hits of the top three finishers)

NOTE: The Marksmanship Portion is weighted 120 (not 100) due to the emphasis we are placing on shooting skills.

  Sharpshooter’s Pledge:

On my honor, as a Lassen Sharpshooter, Venturer / Scout, I promise: 

To always follow the rules of safe firearm handling and shooting;

To seek to master those physical and mental factors essential to the firing of an accurate shot;

To treasure my American heritage, the Bill of Rights, and do all I can to protect and preserve the Unalienable Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment;

To recognize such individual right as being justly considered as the palladium of the liberties of our republic and deterrent to, and defense against, government tyranny and oppression.

Motto:      Exercising the American Bill of Rights.

 

 

"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.

 

Summer Range Rules

Copy of: Wildland Fire Evacuation Plan Shingletown Ridge

 

Star Spangled Banner USAF

Star Spangled Banner - USMC

Proud to be an American

Marine 

Air Force 

Anchors Away

 
 

CELEBRATE JULY 4TH - VIEW POSTER

 

The Battle of Bunker Hill - June 17, 1775 

 

August 1 and 2 mark the sixty-second anniversary of the Battle of Athens, Tennessee