Mountain Man Rendezvous

[Snake Dr.]

Hi All, Just wondered how many TomaHawk Thrower's are In the Black Powder Mountain Man organazation's around the Country ? And what one you belong to ? In Eastern Nebraska we have The Eastern Platte Muzzleloaders, And there base Camp and Shooting Range are not to far from were I live In Omaha, They just had a Senaca Run Competition, They had TomaHawk Throwing and Bowie Knife Throwing Primitive Bow, Black Powder Rifle and Pistol Shooting Competition, It was a Goodun ! Just wonder how many on here are with Black Powder Group's ? I go to Pow Wow's also, In Nebraska we have 4 of em coming up, From June till August, Our Black Powder Range & TomaHawk & Knife Throwing Target's are alway's up for Member use. I'm going to the Rendezvous at Fort Bridger Wyoming It's the Bigun ! Dana from Fort Turner will be set up there, Just wondered If anyone else from this Forum will be there ? It's August 29th thru Sept.1st. 4 Day's of Mountain Man Rendezvous ! I know I'll be meeting Dana there, Is anyone elso going ? Here's a link to there Site http://www.fortbridgerrendezvous.net/ Take Care !

 

[Dwight McLemore]

Snake.

I really had an interest in going to some of those things and got some experience with it at The School of the Longhunter at Prickett's Fort. I still think about getting involved, because myself and some of my student made substantial investments in period clothing just to fit in.......... Then we ran face-to-face with the 'Period Police' who were more interested in how I carried my possibles bag rather than what I was teaching. Luckly the director of the Fort was a friend of mine so they could not run us off. One lady could not get it out of her head that we were Asian Martial Artists and had no business there. One fellow kept following us around wanting to talk about his 'persona' . It really did not matter whether we had a copy of a 16th century manual of fighting techniques to support what was taught, we just did not fit in the club. I know there are some really good people at these events but in my case the 'Jerks' ruined the whole thing for me. Guess we did not do 'dress-up' very well. What is odd was that the Longhunter types who do the treks and actually hunt with the period weapons were really interested in what we did. The accessing and throwing or fighting really got thier attention. Please don't judge these things by my bad experience.

Best
Dwight

 

[Snake Dr.]

Hello Dwight, Dont let one Bad experience stop ya ! That might of been one of them there "Good Buddy's" from the "Big City" ! I guess there's all kind's there. The one's I've been to have all been Great and I love em ! If you can make It to the one at Fort Bridger Wyoming. Take Care !