Gettysburg Pics

[rlelvis]

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[Big Ben]

not seeing any

[jak]

not seeing any
The slide show works if you click on the picture below the non-working slide show.

Cool pictures of the rifles, etc
I haven't been to Gettysburg for a while. It's time to go back

[axemurderer]

Really like that Confederate target rifle.

[Big Ben]

Nice pics elvis

[Big Ben]

Me at the "copse of trees"
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t96/1903BDA/DSCF0193.jpg

[mixmaster]

Great pics. Thanks for sharing them with us. I had a rifle range in Lorton VA and used to go to the Manassa battle field and pick up bullets on the side of the road as the farmers tossed them out of their fields. Can't do that anymore. I think the farmers realized what they were doing and stopped tossing them. Bullets were not the only thing you could find there. Buttons were also pretty common but not in great shape.

[timshufflin]

The photobucket slides just don't want to work here, others do. The link for the slide shows do work though.

[Big Ben]

the Irish Brigade monument
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t96/1903BDA/DSCF0229.jpg

[rlelvis]

Not the greatest pics, many did not even turn out, needed a better camera and was short on time.

Thr target/sniper rifle is definitly cool, 36lbs of BP refinment.

[wgandy]

Confederate Guns:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee78/wgandy/DSC_0013.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee78/wgandy/DSC_0044.jpg

Union Guns:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee78/wgandy/DSC_0033.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee78/wgandy/DSC_0034.jpg

[wgandy]

Memorial to those from Texas:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee78/wgandy/DSC_0045.jpg

View from the Texas line looking at Round Top:http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee78/wgandy/DSC_0046.jpg
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee78/wgandy/DSC_0048.jpg

[wgandy]

rlelvis,

Thanks for starting this thread and sharing your pictures.

-wg

[timshufflin]

You know what, those cannons look small. They probably are small right up to the point where one is aimed at you.

[Big Ben]

How does this one look, Tim?

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t96/1903BDA/DSCF0198.jpg

[Cal30M1]

I hope they chain these down. I want one!

[Big Ben]

not chained, but really really heavy. The carriages are made outta steel.
The barrel in my pic weighs over 1,200 pounds. Carriage probably another 1,200.

[timshufflin]

See now Ben, that looks a bit bigger.

[Big Ben]

See now Ben, that looks a bit bigger.

Nothing like a Mountain Howitzer.

[wgandy]

How does this one look, Tim?

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t96/1903BDA/DSCF0198.jpg

I figure this is just about what Usama thought he was looking at just before the lights went out......$clapper$

[Big Ben]

Yeah, even if it's a 5.56, it still probably looks huge when your staring it in the face.

[cannonshooter]

Hey Cal,
You want cannons? Come down to winchester va in october and you can see us shoot live fire with the n-ssa.
Mack

[cannonshooter]

Ben,
Nice shot of the muzzle of a 12 pound model 1857 Napoleon. If you think that is heavy try moving a 24 pound field howitzer with carriage its just under 4000 pounds. Ill move rifled guns all day long they are light so are the Napoleon's compared to the 24 pounder.
Mack

[MH53GUNNER]

I love going to Gettysburg. I reside about an hour from the battlefield and have my camper not too far from the National Park. In all the years going to the battlefielf I have never seen every monument or did not learn something new.
Very nice pics!

[Big Ben]

Ben,
Nice shot of the muzzle of a 12 pound model 1857 Napoleon. If you think that is heavy try moving a 24 pound field howitzer with carriage its just under 4000 pounds. Ill move rifled guns all day long they are light so are the Napoleon's compared to the 24 pounder.
Mack

Thanks for clearing that up, I thought that was mountain Howitzer. But then again I believe the barrels are shorter on those.

[Big Ben]

This one is for you Humpi. Old Pete.
Took it through the window and we were moving, sorry it's a little blurry.

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t96/1903BDA/DSCF0108.jpg

[toolman]

Awesome place! I was there for the 135th reanactment. Very cool. peace toolman I was there the very day they unveiled this statue. I believe his grandduaghter was the one who pulled the veil. (james longstreet.)

[rlelvis]

Happy to post the pics. Since this visit it is now on our short list of vacation spots.

[cannonshooter]

Pics from Little Round Top
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff424/Matthew_Mackintosh/IMG_1124.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff424/Matthew_Mackintosh/IMG_1123.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff424/Matthew_Mackintosh/IMG_1122.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff424/Matthew_Mackintosh/IMG_1120.jpg

[cannonshooter]

Pickett's Charge
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff424/Matthew_Mackintosh/IMG_1102.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff424/Matthew_Mackintosh/IMG_1101.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff424/Matthew_Mackintosh/IMG_1100.jpg
http://i1235.photobucket.com/albums/ff424/Matthew_Mackintosh/IMG_1098.jpg

[MH53GUNNER]

Went back to Gettysburg again and took the double decker tourist bus this time. Here are a couple of pics.

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj249/mh53gunner/GettysburgOldRoundTop.jpg
I wanted to take the cannon home except the damn thing is anchored.

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj249/mh53gunner/GettysburgOldRoundTop3.jpg
Pic from Old Round top

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj249/mh53gunner/GettysburgOldRoundTop2.jpg

[cannonshooter]

Ill be going back to Gettysburg in September for a ww2 weekend at the Eisenhower farm. Will be my first time to see Ikes farm and am looking forward to it.
Mack

[Big Ben]

Ike's place
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t96/1903BDA/DSCF0060.jpg

[rlelvis]

More great pics. Wish I had more time when I was there. I do plan on getting back soon.

[MH53GUNNER]

More great pics. Wish I had more time when I was there. I do plan on getting back soon.

I have resided in the area for years and have made numerous trips to Gettysburg. I have never even come close to seeing the entire battlefield or learning new things. This round while on the tour bus the guide pointed out a cannon ball that had lodged in the stone of a house just off the main square.

One thing though, the new visitors center is nice but much was lost in the new displays. People were complaining about how hard the displays and museum area were to navigate through.

If you go to the area there is a military museum on the same road to the new vistors center that is cool to go through.

[cannonshooter]

If you want to truly get the most out a trip there to the battlefield. Get out of the car and walk the fields anything that is not private property you can walk lots of great monuments you cant see from the roads hidden away and you can see how the terrain played into why things happened during those 3 days.
Mack