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Not sure if that will help but there is one photo.

I would suggest looking in a book but I don't know what books you might have so go to this site and look for photos: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/
They have most of what are in the...

Can you tell Mr Weaver when a never issued item is the right choice?

I think there was a wise old owl once who when asked a similar question said, "Three". He may have been talking about something else but it is still the right answer.

Here I am stuck agreeing with Bill Cross, not engaging in a debate with him, must be feeling the love of the day. Mr. Cross is so right on so many points I had to speak up in his defense. It really...

That would be split between the two and there would be the cost of the barrel and as there is no refrigeration either salt or ice would have to be purchased. So much like any type of fishing the pay...

You might want to look at the brass polishing discussion that is going on elsewhere. The answer above is the answer, you either take more metal away until you have reached the bottom of the scratches...

I have enjoyed this show and looked in actual books rather than electric ghosts of books and found nothing that says to use wood ashes on brass other than as a second step on copper and brass cooking...

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With all the youtube videos, ehow pages, multiple posts here, army manuals and so on you would think that this would be something that people could do by now. I can see a thread that would weigh the...

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A very nice version of that page but I am sure it isn't what you intended for us to see.

I think this topic may have been discussed at some point and at some location.

Take the year you first started reenacting and make it 1861, what year is it now for you? And as this is not serious research you can go to Wikipedia and find events from that year, anything...

There are times when you have to do the adult thing, sometimes the adult thing is to walk away. Sure he is a great guy and all but still there can be consequences you don't want to live with.
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Hobby groups are looking for new members no matter what the hobby, they don't want to discourage these new members by looking too closely. I was at a modern time period event that had full auto...

Soldiers dealt with the hat in a very efficient manner:
Part of the uniform of the Regiment consisted of high black felt hats with black feather plumes, and were worn with one side of the rim...

Does anybody reproduce the brass version you so often see as a dug relic?

The kind of person that is going to carry 1000 rounds will use at least 100 grains per for a total weight of 14 1/4 pounds of powder if I added it right.

Just arrange them by height and put them on the far end of the line, it will look like the line is longer by forcing the perspective. If they are real little you could set them up with a 1/4 scale...

Sounds like your canteen wasn't clean when you put in the wax or you used too much wax. Try heating the canteen up and redistributing the wax and pour out the excess, might help. You only want a thin...

I can't believe it has been two years, I still have so many questions that he could have answered for me. He paid so much more attention to things than did I, I depended on him for the "who was who"...

The very simple fix is to not shoot them. Use them for drill, carry them into battle and hold them up like you were firing but never actually load on. Pull the nipple to be sure. As long as they are...

I saw too late that you were asking which event to fix not how to fix it, you can only fix an event that you have absolute and final say over, anything else will be a collection of compromises that...

Move the troops further apart during the battle to a more realistic distance, have the battle end with one side in control of the field or the two sides in the ending positions of what is being...

I remember a time when Blair Taylor and I had been out of camp when the "battle" started so we got a deputy to hold our ramrods for us. We were going through the loading motions and all h**l broke...