Press release
Eugene Jankowski Jr of Batavia, NY won two gold medals in individual events at the North-South Skirmish association (N-SSA) 149th spring national match held May 17-19, 2024 at Fort Shenandoah near Winchester, VA. Jankowski won 1st place in the individual 25-yard smoothbore musket event and 1st place in the individual 50-yard rifled musket event.
The N-SSA is the country’s oldest and largest Civil War shooting sports organization with 3,000 individuals that make up its 200 member units. Each represents a particular unit or regiment and members dress in authentic period correct uniforms to compete in live-fire matches with original or authentic reproduction black powder Civil War period muskets, carbines, breech-loading rifles, revolvers, mortars and cannon. The national match is the largest Civil War shooting sports event of its kind.
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