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 Civil War reenacting!!!
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cm3504jm Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 73) |
posted June 16, 2000 04:46 PM
  
It is cool..... Where else can you march in file with 300 of your friends all armed with muskets, revolvers, and cannons blasting each other wearing wool uniforms in 100 degree heat sweating like a pig? It is a rush when the cannons go off and everyone fires in volleys. I swear you feel you are back in 1861. The smoke and smell of the gunpowder, people falling down and screaming, the total chaos. The best part? No one dies, we all get up to cuss each other, get back in line and sweat off till the next battle....... Anybody out there involved in this? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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pizza man Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 137) |
posted June 16, 2000 04:48 PM
nope not me, sounds cool though. Hope your a rebel!!!!!!!! IP: Logged |
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Thick dog Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 614) |
posted June 16, 2000 04:53 PM
Sounds great. Not quite my cup of tea, though. IP: Logged |
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havoc Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 68) |
posted June 16, 2000 04:53 PM
You know I have seen this type of s**t on tv and it looks simply ridiculous, kind of gay in way as well. But actually it might not be too bad if you were a part of it, the way you described the guns,muskets and other action going on would probably get your adrenaline going. IP: Logged |
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Kaisersosay Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 156) |
posted June 16, 2000 08:01 PM
SEEMS COOL,ONLY SAW IT ON TV.IT WOULD BE NEAT RENACTING HISTORY LIKE THAT.HOW DO YOU DETERMINE WHO "DIES" OR GETS "SHOT"? IP: Logged |
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JohnnyO Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 11) |
posted June 16, 2000 08:09 PM
Ok havoc, How is civil war re-enactment "kind of gay"? Did Lincoln and Grant have something going on that my history teacher didn't mention? No wonder Mary Todd went insane. IP: Logged |
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bignate73 Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 898) |
posted June 16, 2000 08:49 PM
i think ill just go see "the patriot" instead. that way i can eat a metrx bar while im in the cool a/c. hehe. less work. hehe. peace IP: Logged |
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Checkmatebloated Pro Bodybuilder (Total posts: 408) |
posted June 16, 2000 08:51 PM
what happens when you load you musket with real ammo. could you know down 6 or 7 yankees before you got caught? IP: Logged |
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DeadlyToxin Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 19) |
posted June 16, 2000 09:43 PM
HAHAHA....You should have bruoght an automatic then you would have an advantage.
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cm3504jm Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 73) |
posted June 17, 2000 11:22 AM
Once you get out on the battlefield, you forget that its 100 degrees and that you are wearing a wool coat, shirt and pants along with your cartridge box, canteen, and musket-all of which weigh about 30 lbs. You sweat like a mf and its true-your adrenaline gets pumping so hard you forget that its 2000 and you have a house, wife, kids. All you think about is firing so hard and fast that all your opponents die before you do and to get the hell out of there alive. I've burned my hand many times on the hot barrel of my musket and never realized it until after the battle was over. I play both sides, sometimes a rebel, sometimes a union soldier. Being a rebel is more enjoyable however. The battles are prestaged and the the outcome predetermined. Of course the rebels never follow those rules. There are a lot of people in the hobby who take it very seriously. As far as taking a hit, if you are tired, a newbie, out of ammo, or acting unsafe, you go down. I love the cannons. When they go off in sequence, you feel the ground shake and the gunpowder smell. Those guys had a lot of balls to face those things at 100 yds and not turn tail and run. Its not cheap- I've put close to 2 grand in it. Rent "Gettysburg" it was made 100% with reenactors ------------------ IP: Logged |
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