CCW at Texas Renaissance Festival
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Keep in mind that at the R festival it sometimes happens that one of the women anachronists- generally wearing a chain mail bra, will kind of climb up on you and wrap her legs around you. This is good but she will certainly "make" your ccw. " Is that a pistol in your pocket or, are you just happy to see me." Mae West.
Warbow
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What's Combined Realms War?
M2 Carbine
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Cool Murph,
My buddy was there. He usually sends me a CD of the pictures he takes.
I hope he got some of you,
but he's got a thing for the chain mail babes.
My buddy was there. He usually sends me a CD of the pictures he takes.
I hope he got some of you,
but he's got a thing for the chain mail babes.
The group I fight with is called the High Fantasy Society... each city's group is considered a "kingdom" as they run the game their own way due to local conditions (minor rulebook differences, etc). Once a year, all the "realms" combine for a big war (big being relatively speaking, for us, that's 120-150 guys/girls fighting on the field and another 50-60 running about off the field, for three days. Compared to the SCA's Pennsic War in Pennsylvania, lasting a week or two and having THOUSANDS of participants, we're tiny).
So that's the Combined Realms War.
And since my girlfriend was on my arm the whole day, no chain mail babes wrapping anything near me.
So that's the Combined Realms War.
And since my girlfriend was on my arm the whole day, no chain mail babes wrapping anything near me.
Do you really feel the need to be armed at a Renaissance Faire? I see lots of questions like this about "Can I carry at..." or "How do I carry at..." and some of these places/events strike me as not someplace I would really need or want to go armed. Expecting to get mugged by manical court jesters?
Warbow
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Sounds fun. I was reading about this one group called the Society for Creative Anachronism (I think), and they do these big medieval battles with bows and everything. Does your group have archers?
Range Ninja
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This past Saturday at the Texas Renaissance Festival, one Brandon Smith, a 23 year old man on leave from the Navy was stabbed 19 times in the paking lot at 7:30 pm and pronounced dead at the Conroe Regional Medical Center. He was attending the festival with his sister and friends when he got into an arguement with a group of men and this was the outcome. Now how do you feel? Just remember,it always happens when you're not expecting it or where you're expecting it.
BTW this article is in the Sunday edition of the Houston Chronicle, City&State section B3.
BTW this article is in the Sunday edition of the Houston Chronicle, City&State section B3.
carebear
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If I'm "expecting" to get mugged anywhere, I don't go there.
Carry 100% of the time, you'll never not have it on the 1% time you need it.
Carry "now and then" and it'll be when you don't have the 1% will occur.
Murphy's Law, not mine.
Carry 100% of the time, you'll never not have it on the 1% time you need it.
Carry "now and then" and it'll be when you don't have the 1% will occur.
Murphy's Law, not mine.
SMLE
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Warbow
The Society for Creative Anachronism has both combat and target archery. Combat archery uses golf tubes for arrows with padded points. Target archery uses field point arrows with period style bows. Lamainate recurve bows ar OK, compound bows are out. Long bows and Mongol/Hun type bows are preferred.
Check out this link; http://www.sca.org/chivarts.html
On the subject of this thread, most SCAdians I know are also gunnies. They tend to have plenty of sharp pointy things about as well. A cry of distress at an SCA event will be answered by folks ready, able and equipped to act. At least that MY expereance in the SCA. I can't speak for all of the Knowne World. particualry the East coast, Europe and Australia.
Myself, I carry ALWAYS. I'm even going to look into some custom garb that will allow me to carry safely and DISCRETLY at events.
The Society for Creative Anachronism has both combat and target archery. Combat archery uses golf tubes for arrows with padded points. Target archery uses field point arrows with period style bows. Lamainate recurve bows ar OK, compound bows are out. Long bows and Mongol/Hun type bows are preferred.
Check out this link; http://www.sca.org/chivarts.html
On the subject of this thread, most SCAdians I know are also gunnies. They tend to have plenty of sharp pointy things about as well. A cry of distress at an SCA event will be answered by folks ready, able and equipped to act. At least that MY expereance in the SCA. I can't speak for all of the Knowne World. particualry the East coast, Europe and Australia.
Myself, I carry ALWAYS. I'm even going to look into some custom garb that will allow me to carry safely and DISCRETLY at events.
Warbow
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Holy crap. I guess that answers thatguy's question about need to carry at a renaissance festival.
Thanks, SMLE. Yeah, I knew they weren't real arrows. I think the article was on the Primitive Archer website. It looked like lots of fun.
Thanks, SMLE. Yeah, I knew they weren't real arrows.
I think the article was on the Primitive Archer website. It looked like lots of fun.Model520Fan
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"There are many things more horrible than bloodshed; and MY blood shed is one of them."
Model520Fan, 2004
Model520Fan, 2004
That was half an hour after i left! Whoah.
And I had a sword and four knives on me. I came in with three knives and added one more.
Yes, i feel the need to be armed. And the SCA= Society for Creative Anachronism (one of the original medieval groups).
At any HFS event, you can also count on large numbers of people with sharp objects and the knowledge of how to use them being handy. Just in my little group of people (10) we had 6 swords and about 20 knives. At CRW we had 200 people around that I counted offhand, and aside from on the actual battlefield, we had several dozen real working swords, axes, daggers, knives, etc plus about five or six shotguns and a couple dozen pistols I know were "around" in various cars and locked boxes.
And I had a sword and four knives on me. I came in with three knives and added one more.
Yes, i feel the need to be armed. And the SCA= Society for Creative Anachronism (one of the original medieval groups).
At any HFS event, you can also count on large numbers of people with sharp objects and the knowledge of how to use them being handy. Just in my little group of people (10) we had 6 swords and about 20 knives. At CRW we had 200 people around that I counted offhand, and aside from on the actual battlefield, we had several dozen real working swords, axes, daggers, knives, etc plus about five or six shotguns and a couple dozen pistols I know were "around" in various cars and locked boxes.
"He was attending the festival with his sister and friends when he got into an arguement with a group of men and this was the outcome."
How do I feel? I feel like I would prefer to avoid arguing with a group of men. Must have been a Hell of an argument if somebody felt the need to stab him 19 times. Maybe better to just walk away? But it does sound like a lack of security. Lawsuit city to follow.
How do I feel? I feel like I would prefer to avoid arguing with a group of men. Must have been a Hell of an argument if somebody felt the need to stab him 19 times. Maybe better to just walk away? But it does sound like a lack of security. Lawsuit city to follow.
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I know this is raising the dead, but anyway...
This arguement from what I have heard (good friend of mine is best friends with the sister, so I trust the source) is that the group of men were making cat calls at her, he told them to knock it off, and they took it personally. Not really a good chance to back down.
Eagle
This arguement from what I have heard (good friend of mine is best friends with the sister, so I trust the source) is that the group of men were making cat calls at her, he told them to knock it off, and they took it personally. Not really a good chance to back down.
Eagle
As long as this thread has been resurrected, I'll just say that there were no 30.06 signs evident when we attended a few weeks ago. Looks like this is the last weekend for this year's festival.
http://www.texrenfest.com
http://www.texrenfest.com
Concerning the restrictions of anything more dangerous than a butter knife in the Kennedy NE, Texas still has the frontier mentality that maybe there is a Comanche around the corner so you can be armed. Interesting statute, still on the books, does not allow Bowie knives in saloons.
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