“Taking Careful Aim”

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Dennis Neely: Traditional Woodsman

“Snapshot Saturday”

A traditional woodsman aiming his flintlock rifle.

The day after Christmas, in the Year of our Lord 1755, a French woodsman (Jon Hollenbeck) seeking meat for the garrison at Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit, took careful aim at a fine doe. New France, near the headwaters of La Riviere aux Raisins.

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