From 04 to 07 was was with 22 North carolina infantry we did summer time Renactments in Virginia , Maryland and Pennslyvania. I also did some free lance stuff with some hard core groups. mostly chessapeake guards . Great group out of Maryland. Took me about 2,000 Dollars to get started then i was off. Now no one does civil war in hawaai so now i just train RL.
two years in HS with Co A. 14th TN Light Infantry for Civil War. Was a lot of fun and was at 125th Gettysburg...GOT TO DIE ON THE WALL!
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I have a BA in history, but except for one ceremony in the Army at Ft. Stewart where I was in a World War 1 uniform and equipment and toting an M-1903, no actual live re-enacting. (That uniform and gear were damned uncomfortable -- woolen, itchy, hot, and tight. I'd hate to have to fight in it!)
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Here are the units, me and my brother have been involved with:
WWII:
The Perth Regiment; 11th Canadian Infantry Brigade, 5th Canadian (Armoured) Division
American Revolution
Colonel's Comapny; 1st Battalion, King's Royal Regiment of New York (a Loyalist regiment raised in Canada during the American Revolutionary War)
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I did some American Civil War reenacting while I was living in California (a buddy got me into it...I don't remember what the unit was supposed to be) and some Frontier Army (both 7th Cavalry and 17th Infantry) while living in North Dakota.
I'd say its a bad idea to point a rifle (fake or not) at police.
Assuming that's what actually happened.
Regardless, it's sad either way.
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Problem is regarding the weapon(this might be in retrospect if the police weren't used to dealing with reenactors), that weapon was fully functioning, even moreso because it was a bolt action, manually operated piece. Thus, no blank adaption was necessary...he could have loaded a live round in and fired it just as easily as a blank 7.92 round.
The guy sounds like an idiot from the way I have read it. Put it down. No. Put it down. No. Stop pointing it at me...ah jesus...BANG BANG BANG BANG.
Yeah, either the kid was drunk or just plain idiotic when it comes to dealing with police and how they respond to having weapons pointed at them. I mean, the article said he had already fixed bayonet on the rifle, so it was, loaded or not, a deadly weapon. Refusing to drop it when you're looking down the business end of two pistols is just stupid.
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