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What percentage of cavalry reenactors bring horses to events? I do not see many artillery companies with teams of horses as well. Do events discourage the use of horses?
Lol good tactic.Events encourage horses but there's just not that many of them. Only at the big events do you see good numbers of them. At our smaller events down here there's a handful of cavalry in one group that switches sides to whichever side is going to win that day to tip the scales in that side's favor.
It's also dangerous. I participated in a training weekend years ago and came close to being killed as the horse reared up, flipped over on me, the saddle hit me in the chest, and the horse's steel shod hoof ground my left inner thigh to mush as it stood up, and was only an inch or so away from the family jewels with that hoof. It took seven years for my thigh to heal, and that thigh is larger than the other one. ..... From talking to members, apparently accidents were fairly common.
Oh and on yet another note,...... artillery actually drawn by horses are always welcome and dreamed of, but just one gun gets even more expensive.......I'd love to do horse-drawn artillery...
That reminds me of a local event last year.......
Cavalry can be dangerous, but we all look out for one another........
If I remember correctly someone some years ago calculated the cost of a single horse drawn cannon. With the number of *trucks*, trailers, horses, tack, etc. ... if memory is accurate, I believe it came to about $200,000.00 for a single horse drawn cannon. And at least the trucks are a lot more expensive now, if not everything else.
Two gentlemen were kind enough to take me to the emergency room. But rather than lay all night in the cold March water seeping through my ground cloth, I had to risk driving myself home. The only person with a trailer rejected any suggestion that his friend made that I sleep in his trailer. No one was willing to help me get home, until possibly the next day. I'm lucky the four hour trip home didn't kill me,possibly by passing out, especially since the doctors had no clue what to do about my leg so left it completely untreated mush.
....... Right now me and some friends are looking into doing it, and right now we're probably gonna go buy some molds for the barrels of a good gentleman soon, and we'll probably cast the barrel,......
I will try to put this a gently as possible... Don't cast your own barrel unless you are experts and plan on having the barrel xrayed. If you don't know what you are doing, the result will simply be a 800lb or so bomb. *Any* flaw in the casting, or the wrong flavor of cast iron, boom!
I'm sorry that no one was willing to give you a hand in a time you needed help most. That is inexcusable, IMO.Two gentlemen were kind enough to take me to the emergency room. But rather than lay all night in the cold March water seeping through my ground cloth, I had to risk driving myself home. The only person with a trailer rejected any suggestion that his friend made that I sleep in his trailer. No one was willing to help me get home, until possibly the next day. I'm lucky the four hour trip home didn't kill me,possibly by passing out, especially since the doctors had no clue what to do about my leg so left it completely untreated mush..... But hey, it gave me a taste of what it would have been laying in wet bedding, wounded, with frost in the air, and only a half of a pup tent to provide a wind break.
Another thing I've noticed is with the age disparity in reenacting, most the older ones dont like to do realistic falls from their horses...…..That reminds me of a local event last year, one of the cavalry officers had a big accident...
From what I can recall, and I didn't see it, the horse reared up and fell back on him and crushed his pelvis along with some other serious injuries. It took him out of events for a while, and a month ago at this years event he was back, (I can't recall if he made it back to events before then), with the hole that caused the fall named after him now with a sign to let him know everyone remembers.
Cavalry can be dangerous, but we all look out for one another, this year for back-in-the-saddle officer a collection was taken up to help him, where almost every reenactor donated to help him.
Holy smokes man how awful. Sorry for your experience. Hopefully ur recovery went well.Two gentlemen were kind enough to take me to the emergency room. But rather than lay all night in the cold March water seeping through my ground cloth, I had to risk driving myself home. The only person with a trailer rejected any suggestion that his friend made that I sleep in his trailer. No one was willing to help me get home, until possibly the next day. I'm lucky the four hour trip home didn't kill me,possibly by passing out, especially since the doctors had no clue what to do about my leg so left it completely untreated mush..... But hey, it gave me a taste of what it would have been laying in wet bedding, wounded, with frost in the air, and only a half of a pup tent to provide a wind break.