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"Jeez, when they said we needed to bring a weedwhacker out here they weren't joking."

Sarge! I think their sending the same two guys at us over and over again and I'm runnin' low on ammo!!

"Home, home on the range..."
There's nothing new to report.

School is so boring, wish I was here:
Don't you?

I think I might get into reenacting the 7th Cavalry in Vietnam or WW2 USMC. RATTATATATATATATAT.

Muhahaha!
I finally got a Tokyo Mauri Thompson AEG Airsoft gun!
I Haven't gotten to shoot it yet but it's awsome and has tons of metal.
Weighs a lot too. Now I just need a battery for it, then I can dish out the pain. ;-)

Well the Laguna Mountain Rendezvous is coming up so I probably should start sewing on some patches on. My family and I went to Gettysburg, Pa. and Va. again and I bought some cool stuff for rendezvous. Namely, some Corporal's stripes and a hat badge and some replica pistols, which are awesome.

Well, if I did ever end up reenacting WW2, at least I have a knife!
I bought M3 combat knife, it's almost exactly the same as an actual one from the WW2 period,
just made a newer, more conventional way.
I plan to take it camping this week and see how it does, being nice and sharp and all.

Summer sure ends quickly, doesn't it?
Oh well, back to school.

(must...stop...playing...day...of...defeat...source...)

I think I might start getting into reenacting World War 2. I found an interesting group that is based mainly in southern California. You can visit their ultra cool sight at http://www.easy39th.com/home.php I am considering joining them, they told me they had an opening on their 2nd machine gun team. I guess I might have to lay the muzzeloader down for a bit and pick up a Colt .45 pistol. I'll tell ya one thing though, reenacting sure ain't cheap.

Once I finish school up I should be able to post here more often. And hopefully this summer i'll do some more reenacting. That's it for now!

Another great rendezvous has passed, but I got a new gun!
I bought a barely used .69 calibre Smoothbore Springfield Musket. It's soo nice and a blast to shoot, I might not even go back to my rifle. (ok maybe I will eventually!) Now all I need is a bayonet...

One of the best parts of reenacting is the ability to freely carry around weapons! I'm not talking about pocket knives and long, sharp sticks, I'm talking about Bowie knives, tomahawks, Kentucky Flintlock rifles, cap-and-ball revolvers stuck in your belt, and smoothbore, .75 caliber muskets hanging from a sling on your shoulder. Unfortunatly the real prize, a good rifle/musket, will usually cost around $500. But once you have one, they're a blast to shoot. Let's say you're short on cash, you can buy a good, period Bowie knife or hip knife for under $100. If you have, like no money, steak knives with wooden handles actually are pretty period-like. Tomahawks/hatchets usually cost around $30. Single shot or Cap-and-Ball revolvers are usually the last piece of weaponry you might buy, probably because they aren't as important as, say, a good rifle, but are fun to own if you've got the money. These run about $200-$300. A good place to buy non-firearm weapons is www.crazycrow.com while a good place to buy guns is www.cabelas.com. Many reenactors choose bows rather than guns, which I say takes more skill, but a good bow can be expensive also, running from around $100-$200. But I personally think guns are better!

Here's a picture from Rendezvous. You can see more at http://sdcml.homestead.com/.
You might wonder what I actually do there. I mainly just hang around and talk to people there, other than play Poker, shoot my gun and work strenuously, that's it.

Here's a picture I took in 1900! Just kidding, I took this photo but I changed the coloring. You can even see the Capital in the back.

A picture taken by me from the Cold Harbor National Battlefield. One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, in which over 13,000 Union and 2,500 Confederate soldiers died. Thousands of Union soldiers were slaughtered in a hopeless assault against the fortified troops of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Grant said of the battle in his memoirs "I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made." At Cold Harbor no advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss sustained among Union troops, about 12,000 of them died in the first 20 minutes, while hoplessly charging heavily entrenched Confederate positions.

If you saw the movie "Gods and Generals", you saw part of the Battle of Fredricksburg. Remember that wall that the Confederates used to shoot at the Union army when they crossed that wide open field? This is a picture of it now, a.k.a. the Sunken Road. (now it's a bit lower) Pretty cool huh? That field the U.S. soldiers crossed is now a bunch of houses and building.
I took this picture myself.

This is us visiting the Chancellorsville battlefield in Virginia, a site of one of the many bloody battles of the Civil War. The Civil War is the time period most (or at least a lot of) reenactors represent. This is one of the artillery positions of the Confederate army. I took this photo.

My Equipment so far is a pair of combat boots (which are farb but don't look out of place), a cotton shirt or two, some blue dress pants, a green canvas overcoat, 2 mexican war era wheel caps (one blue one green), a dark blue fatigue coat, and a non-firing Brown Bess Musket.
Along with a belt, bayonet, canteen and cartridge box.