BATAVIA/Jankowski takes home two gold medals in Civil War shooting sports event in Virginia

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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