Charlestown Colonial Firearm Experience and Shooting

The experience starts with a hands-on overview of the firearm technology in the American colonial era. Your instructor has 35+ years experience in building, collecting, restoring, and using historic weapons.
You will learn not only what typical small arms of the 18th century were like, but also why they were designed the way they were, what they were capable of and what they were not capable of.

After a safety orientation, we'll walk out to our rustic shooting range where you'll get to learn the basics of how to load a colonial-style flintlock musket like the militia did over two centuries ago, then see how accurately you can fire it by shooting at a target.

Group size is limited to four.

Meeting Point

623 Meany Rd

623 Meany Rd, Charlestown, NH 03603, USA

Participants meet at our shop.

What's included:

• We will provide all muskets, shooting supplies, and safety gear

What to expect:

623 Meany Rd

In this 2 hour experience, guests will have an opportunity to learn about colonial history in a hands-on way.
When you arrive, you will be issued a flintlock musket & a cartridge box to report for militia training, 1775 style. Once you are properly armed, we'll walk out the trail to our primitive rural range to "learn the drill" of how to load and fire the musket.

After everyone is comfortable with the instructions and understands what the commands mean, we start loading and firing with live ammo. We shoot at life sized targets at 25 yards which is within the capabilities of novice shooters.

In between shots we'll talk about some historic details of who used this sort of musket and how.

The last two rounds fire give you a chance to race against the clock and see how quickly you can load and fire the musket. Can you break the record? You might be surprised! The current record holder did so after never handling a musket before!

All supplies and safety gear are provided.

This is rural NH and you should dress for playing outside.

Class size is limited to four people who will actually shoot, non-shooting spectators are welcome.