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HISTORICAL CAMPING

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 10:31:10 No.813846 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>813854 >>813856 >>813858 >>813885 >>813993 >>814271

Does anyone on /out/ do historical camping?
Me and a friend are trying to get into with using the kit of an american woodsman / longhunter from around 1760-1800. Was wondering if out could give any tips, especially as we'll be using basic kit by todays standards.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 10:32:33 No.813847 Report

Quoted By: >>813976 >>814128

Any tips on woolen blanket sleeping would be great.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 10:54:06 No.813854 Report

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>>813846
Please post the date and location of your next /out/ing so I can be sure I'm on the opposite side of the planet from you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 11:01:39 No.813856 Report

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>>813846
Sounds pretty cool. I wouldn't do it on a regular basis, but it's fun to try shit out. why don't you test these things out yourself and report. Some OC pics would be nice.

What do you do for a tent/tarp?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 11:17:47 No.813857 Report

Quoted By: >>813976 >>814091

>>813856
Two woolen blankets and a tarpaulin sheet is what we're using for bedding. The sheet can be used as a ground sheet or rigged up into a shelter half.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 11:20:05 No.813858 Report

Quoted By: >>813864

>>813846
I'm not into LARPing myself, but mule stringers often do the sort of cosplay you are asking about

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 11:49:46 No.813864 Report

Quoted By: >>813877

>>813858
>LARPING
>Cosplay
Stop trying to trigger me

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 12:26:41 No.813877 Report

Quoted By: >>813881

>>813864
Facts trouble many.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 12:45:31 No.813881 Report

Quoted By: >>814043 >>814046

>>813877
LARPers play a character, i'm not doing that.
Cosplayers just wear outfits.
I'd say this is more re-enactment / living history.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 12:54:48 No.813885 Report

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>>813846
No because I don't have the 'tism

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 12:57:06 No.813886 Report

Quoted By: >>813928

>>813885
Neither do i, i just want a challenge while being /out/
Plus it's an interesting period of history, enough people struggle when camping now days so it's interesting to see how we would have fared back then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 13:18:18 No.813893 Report

Quoted By: >>813896

A friend of mine does medieval reenactment and as part of it they do camps like this in woodland here in England for tourists to look at. They tend to only use medieval shit when there's a tour coming through though and as soon as they're gone they're cooking spam on a gas stove.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 13:48:10 No.813896 Report

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>>813893
Yeah that sucks, i know a lot of hardcore re-enactors though who keep "in period" for the entirety of the event, whether the public are there or not,

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 15:29:22 No.813928 Report

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>>813886
>Plus it's an interesting period of history
Yeah? Know what else made it interesting in the old days? Small pox. Hope you aren't inoculated for that, wouldn't want to take away from your experience.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 18:03:49 No.813976 Report

Quoted By: >>814115

>>813847
>>813857
Wool blankets are really hard to do. Basically, the wool blankets they had back in the day were much thicker (talking at least double or triple the weight/thickness of your average surplus blanket).They were super used to using those things and even then would freeze their asses off. I'm not saying it's impossible, but sleeping bags were a massive improvement in going /out/.

It's not impossible, I've done a few overnights with a wool blanket in nights that get down to 40F but it gets shitty pretty quickly.

Check out Kenneth Kramm on youtube.
Read How to Camp Out by John Gould (civil war vet). Or check out Jas Townsend on youtube.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 18:31:32 No.813993 Report

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>>813846
http://www.5280.com/digital/2016/07/local-hikers-journey-past
these guys seem to be doing something similar to what you want to do.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 19:49:04 No.814043 Report

Quoted By: >>814316 >>814846

>>813881
Of course you aren't playing a character.

You put on your wax canvas backpack and your felt derby and your wool blanket, light your pipe, and go innawoods. I bet you don't even for one second imagine yourself as an actual longhunter from the 1800s.

Sure you don't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 19:50:17 No.814046 Report

Quoted By: >>814115

>>813881
pretending to a person in another time period is LARPing
dressing up like a person in another time period is cosplay

re-enactment is doing both at the same time

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 20:36:51 No.814091 Report

Quoted By: >>814115

>>813857
You should be watching Dave Canterbury's shit. Wilderness Outfitters on YT.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 21:16:39 No.814115 Report

Quoted By: >>814206

Thanks to the anons not being cunts.

>>814046
Nah

>>814091
>>813976
Will do anons, thanks for the tips

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Dræfend Wed 13 Jul 2016 21:16:58 No.814116 Report

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I don't go full medieval, but I go out with a lot of medieval gear. I want to go full /AngloSaxon/, but it's 40% anglo saxon and 60% normal gear.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 21:28:26 No.814119 Report

Quoted By: >>814124 >>814143

>>814116
Sweet gear man, did you made some stuff yourself or did you buy everything?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 21:32:53 No.814124 Report

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>>814119
That's not his gear. It's from a series of photographs of re-enactors gear showcasing the equipment of an english soldier over the past 1000 years

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Jul 2016 21:34:36 No.814128 Report

Quoted By: >>814277

>>813847
Don't get them from the white man.

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Dræfend Wed 13 Jul 2016 21:57:21 No.814143 Report

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>>814119
Yeah that's not my image, just quite related. I bought most of my gear, some belts and leather gear and shoes are homemade.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 00:25:16 No.814206 Report

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>>814115
>Nah
what a well reasoned and erudite rebuttal

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Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 02:48:54 No.814271 Report

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>>813846
I like this kind of shit- not exactly the period correct, attention to detail reenacting shit, but the back to basics methods and tools. I've read a few books on the subject, browsed a few forums and articles, and tried a few methods myself. I was the guy who posted on this thread earlier about my experience sleeping with wool blankets. This topic is really interesting to me, and I'd really like to see more discussion on it. I understand this is 4chins but, the bullshittery and name calling has plenty of threads for fodder in /out/ alone. Who the fuck cares what LARPING is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 02:53:21 No.814277 Report

Quoted By: >>814285 >>814313

>>814128
>Implying that the white man hasn't dealt with snow before meeting the Injun Muricans

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 03:05:17 No.814285 Report

Quoted By: >>814313 >>814376

>>814277
nah son. Us whiteys gave the indians blankets laced with small pox. They were already at a disadvantage because we had developed resistance to the disease through generations of dying from it over in densely packed Europa, meanwhile it was open season on this fresh population of humans who had no immunity whatsoever. But we extra fucked them by giving them blankets riddled with that shit. Kinda like spiking a diabetic's drink with sugar.

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Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 03:45:32 No.814313 Report

Quoted By: >>814317 >>814356

>>814277
The joke
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You're head

>>814285
Correct and thorough answer is correct and thorough.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 03:46:59 No.814316 Report

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>>814043
The war on fun is real

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 03:50:31 No.814317 Report

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>>814313
*your
Fuck

I actually think that it's neat replicating historical activities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 04:59:35 No.814356 Report

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>>814313
So you gave Indians smallpox blankets?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 06:31:17 No.814376 Report

Quoted By: >>814389 >>814456

>>814285
That's an urban legend that never actually happened.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 07:50:12 No.814389 Report

Quoted By: >>814802

>>814376
Yeah, no reason to kill them with blankets when you are doing just fine with bullets

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 12:05:46 No.814456 Report

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>>814376
Didn't you learn in school that Columbus killed 6,000 Indians? If not you are over 23 and thus should go back for more learning about the 6 million Indians he turned into lampshades

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 22:54:47 No.814802 Report

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>>814389
it's easier to kill them by not giving them blankets. You just wait until winter

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 14 Jul 2016 23:59:59 No.814846 Report

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>>814043
>I bet you don't even for one second imagine yourself as an actual longhunter from the 1800s.

Long hunters used pack horses to carry their gear. they weren't backpackers.

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