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**4V50 Gary** · July 21, 2013, 08:30 PM

Re-enactors love history. They try to interpret it for others.

I found talking to them to be fun and educational. They read stuff that I may not have access to. For instance, I didn't know that the Civil War skirmish drills weren't in the condensed drill manuals but found only in the larger, full sized manuals. I learned from another re-enactor that the Royal Americans were a red coated unit (confirmed later by my own research).

Me, I'm just a shooter. I don't want to wear wool clothes in summer. I don't want to freeze my arse off in fall or winter (was invited to spend a night in San Francisco's Fort Point but to walk to the toilet was 75 yards min) and why would I do that when I could sleep in my own warm bed and walk about ten short steps to the potty at home?

July 21, 2013, 08:30 PM	#24
4V50 Gary Staff Join Date: November 2, 1998 Location: Colorado Posts: 21,832	Re-enactors love history. They try to interpret it for others. I found talking to them to be fun and educational. They read stuff that I may not have access to. For instance, I didn't know that the Civil War skirmish drills weren't in the condensed drill manuals but found only in the larger, full sized manuals. I learned from another re-enactor that the Royal Americans were a red coated unit (confirmed later by my own research). Me, I'm just a shooter. I don't want to wear wool clothes in summer. I don't want to freeze my arse off in fall or winter (was invited to spend a night in San Francisco's Fort Point but to walk to the toilet was 75 yards min) and why would I do that when I could sleep in my own warm bed and walk about ten short steps to the potty at home? __________________ Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt. *Molon Labe!*