Possible bag set up

[Pete G]

I've always been disappointed that authenticity isnt applied among the purists when it comes to demographics, at least reasonable percentages of them should be infected by various STD's; Scurvy; Dysentery; Small pox; Genital rashes; Lice and various verminous body afflicting skin disorders.

Why is it that the diseased population of 18-19th century Soldiers, Explorers; Settlers and Mountain men are deliberately ignored ?

Because nobody wants to share a tent with them!!!

 

[Trigger]

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The issue isn't what you personally call your own stuff. It never has been. The issue is that the word/s is not what the item was called at the time,,,, and many of you insist on telling people outside of the "hobby" that it was. And this applies to many things that get argued over here in the same way.
Call you bag, on your own, whatever you want, but when someone asks about it on the range or out someplace you encounter the public, a shot pouch is a shot pouch, not a "possibles bag." Same goes for discussions within the community about gear and methods. Knowing the common misuse of the terms, when someone asks a question about a "possibles bag," I'm going to have to ask them to define their terms. Are they actually asking a out a shot pouch or are they asking about a bag for generalized stuff?

When you are gathering your stuff to leave for a shoot or hunt and can't find it and want to ask your significant other, "where's my "possibles bag?" in your best fake "mountainy man" voice,,,, go for it. But please stop telling the outside public that the people who would have originally used such a bag called it that.
You want to put your wife's apron around your tighty-whiteys and call it a breechcloth and then your bathrobe and call it a hunting frock and go shoot or hunt, and use your little short stick to start the ball? Go for it. But don't tell people this is what they wore and how it was done in the frontier and colonial days.

 

[Banjoman]

Around 1830 when Zeke and Simon were coming back from the Rockies after three years in the wilderness Simon had a bag with his shooting stuff that had been repaired about twice as many times as his moccasins.

Zeke remarked that he did not think Simon's bag would make it back to civilization but it was possible.

Simon's possible bag made it back and they have been called that ever since......that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

And now we know,,,,the rest of the story.

 

[Mad L]

If I said you had on tennis shoes, gym shoes, trainers, basketball shoes etc. would you know what I meant.

Actually to me, who played a lot of sports in my youth, each of those names puts a different picture in my mind; only thing common is they are all shoes but they are different types of shoes often for different use....'tennis shoe' a bit more universal in my mind but if I was a tennis play they I might disagree as well.

But all in all; I try to use proper terms for what things are. Kids can 'evolve' language all they want, and they do, often to the point one walks away wondering "What'd that kid say?"

Anyway; I use one's choice of terms to let me know their background, their knowledge of a subject. Personally don't care what they call it.
If someone tells me they are grabbing their 'shot bag/pouch' or 'rifle bag' or even their 'hunting bag' then I pretty sure I know what they will come back out with; but they say they are grabbing their 'possible bag' and come back out with just a small 'shot/rifle bag' - I just say "Okay, hope in!" ...while thinking in head *okay, here we go, Nube*

 

[nchawkeye]

Some want to learn and use the correct terminology and some don't. If a person doesn't care about what it was called during the time period it was used then it is a waste of time to try to change his mind.

Just like learning how to use and hunt with a flintlock, mold your own balls, make a fire with a flint and steel, properly use a compass, sharpen a knife, butcher and cook game some want to learn through the experience, some don't.

 

[Rancocas]

I think I'll call my three bags, Betsy, Matilda, and Sue.

Frankly, folks, this site is beginning to get on my nerves. There is too much modern stuff slipping in, both in terminology like this topic, but also in the gun talk and other subjects. I'm not just talking about what you call your bag. Some of it is just plain anal, and others are just plain stupid. Some of it in violation of the rules, at least so far as I see it.
I know some of you will jump all over me with some snide, derisive remarks just for saying this.
I think I will take a little hiatus. Maybe come back in a few months and see how things are going here then.

 

[Trigger]

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