Going Hunting With Your Henry Rifle

By Van Harl

By Major Van Harl

Wisconsin –-(Ammoland.com)- “Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds of powder and ball and be ready to march at a minute’s warning,” order number (rule) two of Standing Orders, Roger’s Rangers.

I have decided I need to learn something new every day.

So, I leave how-to books, military manuals and modern preparedness literature next to my bed. This way before I pick up my latest apocalyptic, dooms day novel to enjoy some light reading that helps me fall fast asleep, I make myself open one of the above type books and learn something useful.

I keep my old Ranger Handbook very close to me nowadays. The Army issued it to me when I attended Infantry school almost thirty-five years ago.

Rule nineteen of Roger’s Rangers is, “Let the enemy come till he’s almost close enough to touch–then let him have it and jump out and finish him up with your hatchet.”

Major Robert Rogers, of the famous French and Indian Wars and Roger’s Rangers …Read the Rest

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