The North-South Skirmish Association is holding its Fall National Matches near Winchester, VA, the first weekend in October. Hundreds of individual shooters and teams will compete using original or exact reproduction vintage weapons. The team matches will be held in uniform and N-SSA members will be firing rapid fire at breakable targets at various ranges. This is not a reenactment. There is no staged battle and no one (hopefully) falls down “dead”. Rather this is firearms competition with rifled muskets, breech loading carbines and revolvers.

Fort Shenandoah is located about eight miles North of Winchester off Route 522, towards Berkeley Springs, WV. This is an opportunity to photograph N-SSA members in authentic uniforms and there is also a civilian dress competition. On Saturday afternoon there will be full sized canon matches at 200 yards! (You might want to bring ear plugs.)

A “sutlers row” provides many items for sale and food is available on the grounds. Admittance is limited to guests of N-SSA members. Tripods are allowed, but guests are not allowed forward of the observation line. Many shooters are open to allowing individual photographs and photography during matches is allowed.

NVPS members interested in attending anytime during the weekend of October 5 – 7 should sign up on the provided sheets or e-mail Bill Vanderpool at vander90@aol.com. Directions and an approximate schedule will be returned via e-mail. The ranges are about 1 ½ hours West and NVPS members should make their own arrangements for carpooling. You might want to bring ear plugs.