Respect (1 Viewer)

[marco55]

After wallowing around in 2 feet of snow today which is like once in a decade here,I have even more respect for the people of the 18th cen.What a hard life they lived.The 18th cen.was part of what they call the Little Ice Age and they had some terrible winters.Without the modern technologies we have they endured.
Mark

 

[jazzeum]

I lived near Jockey Hollow National Park, where Washington camped out with his troops before crossing the Delaware. I wouldn't have wanted to go through that.

 

[10TH LA.]

I will have to agree with the respect part.....I live in northern Ontario the winters here are hard today .....I can imagine what it must of been like .....especially the people coming to north America for the first time in the 18TH century.....

 

[mikemiller1955]

Mark...you are so right...

Sometimes I will drive down a nice highway stretch...

that has heavy trees on both sides and just wonder how hard it was to travel through the dense forested area before roads...

I get upset if my CD player skips on a bump...I guess in 200 years...people will wonder how we got by without their futuristic conveniences...

 

[marco55]

People of the future probably will.I know a woman who had a fit because her hair dryer blew but had lived her first 40 years without one but when hers blew it was the end of the world.
Mark

 

[pugio]

Check out 'Southern Vermont Primitive Biathlon" on the net. I was was going to enter the competition next February but my new early Virginian longrifle won't be completed in time. There is a huge sub-culture across the World that is involved with the black-powder era, especially the FIW and American Revolution. All smoothbores, rifles, clothing, hunting bags, knives, tomahawks, etc. are still made by hand using the same methods as in the past... great hobby to be invovled with, at the cost of my toy soldier collections becoming smaller.

 

[marco55]

My cousin has black powder muskets but I've never fired them.
Mark

 

[pugio]

Mark, you should definitley ask to load and fire one, under your cousins supervision. You'll get new respect what these people had to go thru just to survive. You may even like it enough to start getting involved. Andy

 

[marco55]

He's been going to take me out but we haven't gotten together yet.I'll have to get ahold of him and try it.I'm not into hunting and firearms like him but I've always wanted to try the black powder weapons.
Mark

 

[old tank]

marco55.....You have to try it....It is awesome. My brother in law and i sent
for a kit years ago in U.S. We put them together and it was fun shooting,
big difference than lever action or bolt. Now i have 50 cal.hawkins a favorite
of mountain men.....MERRY XMAS to you and family.

 

[marco55]

That's why I want to try it.If I like it I might buy one.I'll be thinking I'm Robert Rogers.