One of my team members had a Harpers Ferry Arms Maynard that he lent to me to shoot at the first Nathan Bedford Forrest skirmish held at Union City, Tennessee, in July 1977 or 78. The skirmish was held at a local city park on the edge of town, where was a large open field, in which the host team had erected hay bales about 8 feet high (and about the same deep) for a backstop. Being held in July, it was blazing hot, and I had bought a brand new pair of doe hide cavalry gauntlets from Dixie Gun Works, which I wore while shooting the HFA Maynard. By the time I was done, the left hand gauntlet was cooked, the barrel being so hot to hold, I swore off Maynards and bought a Yeck Smith.
First Cousin (7 times removed) to Brigadier General Stand Watie (1806-1871), CSA
1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles | Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation 1862-66
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