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I suggest a new MTV Roman stunt show along these lines:

Call it Julius-Onager (Jack Ass)

I would suggest just being more careful with weapons, especially firearms! hock: hock:

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No wonder people think we're all nuts.

The worst reenactment-related accident I ever had was when I didn't pay attention with a leather knife. Very decorative little scar on my left thumb.

My only re-enactment wound that left a scar is the two-inch line running down the left side of my right middle finger, just behind the second knuckle. I was drilling rivet holes in my bronze belt plates, and the plate slipped out of my pliers...went spinning around at 2000 RPM catching my finger in the process.

Sliced it right open...to which Scythius said, "No, that's good! Mars has blessed your armor." :lol:

Fibulae.

I even look at one and I'm punctured. It can be behind plate glass, or even in a box, but as soon as I've even glanced at it, blood! hock:

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I even look at one and I'm punctured. It can be behind plate glass, or even in a box, but as soon as I've even glanced at it, blood! hock:

Do you have any piercing memories of a past life
...:roll:

1.) bayonet wound- left hand, some yahoo had a bayonet fixed when he wasn't supposed to, I went over to ask him to unfix, and he swung around rapidly, I caught it, saving my stomach, but much to the dismay of my hand. oooowwwwww, 4 fingers, and the palm sliced DEEP (it was a sword bayonet)

2.) spear CUT my arm, a hasta with razor edges cut my arm, luckily it wasn't too bad.

other cuts & scrapes naturally, but nothing else really bad.



tell us the 98k story, sounds like a heck of a story.

...ooookay... A bullet through the wall from a gun...And "hand made" frag grenades??

egads...And you're not in jail because....?


Um..worst injuries...Myself I cut my right thumb up pretty good, right at the cuticle up to the knuckle, when I grabbed my newly-aquired Furca marching pole, and went to rest it on my armor/shoulder...Hand slipped down and pinched it between the plate and the furca, with some good weight on it with a dolabra, bed roll and pilum strapped onto it...That was right before a public show...you could see the blood seeping through the bandaid...Took about a month to heal...And every time at work I went to use solvent to clean up ink (work as a printer)...I got a sharp, painful reminder of why you shouldn't rush things.

I too have gotten the Belt Plate-Buzzsaw cometh, altough I was *very* lucky nothing got cut....And a few good whacks on the fingers with a hammer when riveting... But I've had some very tame injuries, I'm very thankful.

"Mars has blessed your armor"...Hahaha! Too funny!

Quote:tell us the 98k story, sounds like a heck of a story.

Khaire,

Actually, it is the least exciting of all my stories.

We were using WW2 vintage FMJ ammo and we were seeing how fast we could empty the magazine. Once, when I slammed the bolt closed, the '98 went off. It went through my backpack, my entire array of sweatshirts, a blanket, the stock of my 1891 nagant rifle, the wall, (through a stud no less!) before blasting out into the other room and lodging in the wall opposite. In the room where the bullet lodged there were wood splinters everywhere, some were even embedded in the walls! Very nasty.

Khaire,

-Aedon

..and this stupid behavior is what gives other gun owners like myself a bad name. You should seriously consider staying away from any kind of firearm until you are competent enough to be around them.

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Lucky it wasn't S.m.K. (armor-piercing) ammunition- that stuff can punch holes in 1/4" steel I beams...

I'll stick with a dull gladius and no firearms thanks.

Quote:Actually, it is the least exciting of all my stories.

We were using WW2 vintage FMJ ammo and we were seeing how fast we could empty the magazine. Once, when I slammed the bolt closed, the '98 went off. It went through my backpack, my entire array of sweatshirts, a blanket, the stock of my 1891 nagant rifle, the wall, (through a stud no less!) before blasting out into the other room and lodging in the wall opposite. In the room where the bullet lodged there were wood splinters everywhere, some were even embedded in the walls! Very nasty.
Khaire,
-Aedon

[size=150:2qzx21ka]Y[/size]ou are very lucky... VERY lucky! Like my roomamte waving a pistol around joking he was going to shoot it at my cat... he went "Bang Kitty" and it went off, like about 6 inches from my foot >:-0 went through wood floor and stuck in beam... luckily was a saturday night special, not something real... You'd have shit if it'd went on through and hit someone.

Now you're making me sound like some old geezer... Use dummy rounds next time you wanna do something like that, you make us all look like fools![/b]

You are dangerous.

Cardinal rules... Sharp objects, guns, fires, (and obviously grenades) do not mix well with alcohol, especially in the amounts it takes to get drunk. Only foolish people tempt fate so, and it does give all of us a black eye.

135th Antietam (CivWar) some moron left a "forgotten" ball in his pistol and managed to shoot another cavalryman by accident. That was the headline. 1 moron out of 35,000. That is all it takes. It was "not but a flesh wound" fortunately!

We do not sharpen our swords... Pila points and brass edging are our worst enemies, or smashing you thumb on a tent peg. When we did CivWar we never fired real ammo out of our muskets, as a piece of lead could get stuck in the rifling and come out later. Seemed like common sense.

Reenacting "safely" is the goal. That means making a nod toward safety OVER realism.

So as my dear mother would say:

STOP DOING STUPID STUFF.