How traditional are you?

[Tallswife]

I would have to say that I fall between a B-/C+, but in my mind, its E all the way!!!

 

[Loyalist Dave]

and anybody so snobby as to look down on my ways as "untraditional & wrong" is likely a person I wouldn't wanta shoot with anyhow.

Now folks are saying if you're not "traditional" you're wrong? :haha:

I don't look down on the guys who shoot modern guns, nor on the guys who shoot the not-to-be mentioned muzzleloaders..., so I would never suggest the above, and agree that such is a person who I probably would not want to keep company with.

I feel sorry for the folks who look at anything other than the most modern firearm or tech as not worth their time. The same as I feel sorry for all those folks on the Interstate, zooming up the road as fast as they can, while I'm traveling on the older, US Highway or even the side road, taking longer to get there, BUT I saw the bald eagle flying west for the first time in my life (so did my kids and wife), or the bear waiting until I passed to dart across the road behind me...., while all those modern oriented folks are simply oblivious, and the poorer for it.

:idunno:

LD

 

[Grumpa]

One of the more delightful posts I have read on here in a long time! :grin: :thumbsup:

Richard/Grumpa

 

[Mad Irish Jack]

From E, headed back toward D. I'm 68 and the years need tampering with. I've gotten out of my trail tarp and into a Wedge and off the ground. I still reenact 1755 to 1820. Being correct when doing any time period event is essential. It's kinda hard getting respect doing CW events with a Winchester Mod '78, or any German Mauser and wearing Sorel boots and camo's. Everyone has to suit their own conscience. Have a realistic, convincing story why you're British related with French or German items. Easy enough. "I come across a dead Grenadier (or Hessian) soldier that didn't need it as much as I did." plausable story. etc.

 

[jethro224]

A new door has opened and Jethro and his friends are leading me through it. I would say that this story ends with a happy ending, but this is only the beginning!

BWAHAHA!!! Another one corrupted! :haha:

I'm glad you're having such a good time, Cowboy. It's been a pleasure dragging you down the slippery slope to the dark side.

 

[coxral]

Somewhere between C-D. Shoot a Hawkin, round ball, wear the clothing that is probably pretty close, wife and I make as much of our stuff as possible, go to a few Rendezvous'. This'll be be first year hunt'n with muzzleloader, been traditional archery for years.

 

[tenngun]

Well we set our own rules. You can put on tandy yellow skins, get some blue speckle ware, a 22 foot tipi with a painted design on the side, and be hc for 1975 rendezvous period.
When its wet and cold, and your bone tired on a trek, and you realize the gray in your beard means you aint a spring chicken no more, and you just cant catch a spark, and no ones around, can you dig a hidden bic out of your bag? May be hide a subway sandwich in your market wallet, to eat when you just finished setting up camp at an event and you don't feel like cooking?
Nobody is 'wrong' for not trying to be as hc as they can. The boys that started the NMLRA just wanted to have fun shooting old guns. All the other chips just fell in to place. Wow I got a powder horn, you don't have to have one, its just fun. Pretty soon you got you a fringed leather 'possibles' bag (that's what they called them then) Then you started saying shooting bag. Pretty soon your neck deep in old style play pretties.
Then along comes the problems with hc. Cast iron was known, but heavy. You think a lot of boys on the trail carrered one. Well you want to be hc get you a tin pot...but you cant bake bread in a tin pot, so get you a tin reflector oven....you think boys on the trail had one of them??? might as well get you a iron pot. After all Plumb-Martin had one, till he tossed it down a hill.
Candle lantrens, I just don't think Bridger had one, or Kenton, but I would bet you could find them at Bents place or at the Alamo. Are they hc? We live in th here and now and from a-e we compromise.

 

[Billnpatti]

I would be in the "B" group. All of my guns are traditional style (no inlines). Some are flint and some are percussion. I shoot only real black powder behind patched round balls. My clothing is normal modern stuff such as jeans and a T-shirt. I have a few pieces of "costume" clothing but never wear it any more. I used it when I went to Friendship but now that I no longer live in Indiana, it just hangs in the closet.

 

[pa woods roamer]

Would love to go full Traditional but am too old and poor to!I shoot a Caplock at the shoots and wear kinda traditional clothing. In our Pa. Flintlock season, and IF it is not too cold, I will dress Traditional, except for my Muck Boots and Brown Jersey Gloves !!

 

[Shooey]

I'm close to the "c" category. I shoot and hunt with blackpowder, both cap lock and flintlock. When I'm at the range, I do use my powder horn and bag, but I'm there in jeans and a t-shirt.
When I hunt, I wear modern clothes, but I sling my pouch and horn over my should and hunt with my cap lock or flintlock, even during modern firearms seasons.
I do visit Fort Frederick and Mount Vernon dressed in 1770s clothes! :thumbsup: