Getting Started in Primitive living

[old salt]

Dang Kawken50
You would have to open that door on the past. There were good and bad memories.
Most of which I would give a large sum of money to do again, and some I remember saying to my self, self we anit never going through this again.
Thanks for the memories. And have a Merry Christmas
Old Salt

[flintboomer]

I used to just show up, shoot and leave because the shooting was what I was interested in, so it has been a long slow process of finally deciding to start making friends and then dressing more appropriately then joining a friend's primitive camp because funds were too low to afford to pull my little trailer. The good thing about it is that I have made a number of friends that welcome me into their camps and have joined a couple of clubs where help is always needed with events.
As far as the age thing, I am presently 63 and have been shooting black powder for 38 years.  

[Bulldog lady]

just catching up after xmas cookin- thinkin as read this thread.  Naw don't go grab a fire extinguisher-- -Just a few suggestions from old ackey  bones and joints. FORGET the sleeping on the ground, it is cold, to far down and way further up.  get a cot - wish had know about the extra tall, wide ones. but-  If it is just you thing about what it takes to set up your tent or shelter or what ever  you decide on.  Plan your menu and think ahead, pre cook what you can and only pack the utensils you can use for more than one thing.  A few extra blankets are always a good thing and dry clothes, just incase.  Keep it simple and have fun , that is the main thing.  As to persona,do  your own thing,  if'n you wants to be a mt man a visitin kin back east so be it. If you want to go the native American , they had Indians up there also. If you want to go colonial, simpliciy and butterick have great patterns that  you can find on sale at hobby lobby, joanns for 1.00-1.99 on special pattern days, I have some that ran $16 and up that got on these sales for cheap price.  Main thing in our slowing down years if that is a nice way of saying it is, is go out ,  meet new folks and most important enjoy it like it could be  your last, but just incase you do wake up in the morning, show moderation sometimes cause you may want the old body to do it again.

[pilgrim]

    Thanks Bulldog Lady for the good, sound advice.  Not being prepared could be cause of never attending another rondy.  Thanks again.

[Red Badger]

Pre planning is the only way to go.  The idea of sleping on the ground is great if your body can take it... but like Bulldog Lady said a cot helps!  I have seen mayny a camp where the cot has been camofalged by a couple of wooden posts set upright to make it look like a rustic rope bed (who will know if you have blankets piled on top of it?)  Also most of the rendezvous I go to your camp must look period correct outside of your tent... your tent is your private area and no one but you need see whats inside of it...

My coleman stove and computer hide out in my tent and are just fine there and have never had any trouble - especially after a long cold, wet night when I emerge with a gallon of hot camp coffee to offer to the cold wet people who's fires went out..... 


The computer stays in there so I can keep an eye on this herd of drygultchers.... 

[Dogshirt]

Pre planning is the only way to go.  The idea of sleping on the ground is great if your body can take it... but like Bulldog Lady said a cot helps!  I have seen mayny a camp where the cot has been camofalged by a couple of wooden posts set upright to make it look like a rustic rope bed (who will know if you have blankets piled on top of it?)  Also most of the rendezvous I go to your camp must look period correct outside of your tent... your tent is your private area and no one but you need see whats inside of it...

My coleman stove and computer hide out in my tent and are just fine there and have never had any trouble - especially after a long cold, wet night when I emerge with a gallon of hot camp coffee to offer to the cold wet people who's fires went out..... 


The computer stays in there so I can keep an eye on this herd of drygultchers.... 

You don't think WE would cause any problems while you weren' looking do you?

[mongrel]

Trouble? Us? NEVER....

Bwahahahahaha....

[Hawken50]

  Sneeeeek,pinch,scamper.

[Dogshirt]