Looking back, it really was. We'd go camping with church friends with just about everything being period appropriate. The clothing was uncomfortable, but everything else was fun. I can't even remember how old I was when I shot a musket for the first time, but I didn't brace at all and it knocked me right over....I should get a musket.
I would do that camping for sure.
Probably a lot of wool stuff.
Never shot a musket a mosin nagant is probably the biggest recoil I've messed with.
Mosin is my favourite rifle on the shelf right now, and that probably has a little more recoil than the musket. At the time I'm pretty sure I was under ten years old, so just about everything had a stiff recoil to me.
The camping was great, but I can't say I've done any of that in somewhere over a decade. Haven't even thought of it. I guess sometimes you get so busy in life you forget what you allowed yourself to miss out on. Well, now I'm waxing nostalgic.
That, and the pastor was one of the main organizers of the camps, and when the church got big he got too rich to hang with the rest of us, so things fell apart, and also we got kicked out of that church.
he got too rich to hang with the rest of us
haha... seems like a very Godly thing to do. /s
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