#milsurplus

[weekendviking]

Whoh, yeah. Historical pastimes get historical injuries.

*I stepped in a vat of caustic lye for soap making with animal fat when I was 5, that burned the surface skin off my foot.

*My older brother, who's a film armourer, gunsmith and reenactor, is missing part of a finger on one hand due to an altercation with the gun trail of a 77mm Krupp fieldgun from 1896.

*I know what it feels like to have an 1888 pattern bayonet grate on one's teeth after passing through my cheek. (The Dr congratulated us on our field medicine, quote 'I don't need to even add any sutures, this is probably not even going to leave a scar' (it didn't))

*Started getting trench foot once, but as a roadie setting up a music festival rather than a reenactment for once, but mostly wearing various milsurplus kit, again, unable to dry one's feet out after a solid couple of weeks, and my feet started swelling and the skin began to delaminate, but I remembered my WW1 vet grandfather's advice 'When it's wet, Boy, Grease your feet!' and applied my fat based boot dubbin directly to my feet, and it solved the problem (basically multiple days wet de-fats your skin oils and then you get runaway osmosis and delamination and then infection in the feet...)

*One forgets that safety glasses apply to pre modern tools as well - left the safety glasses with the chainsaws we'd been using earlier to fell the trees for a cruck beam hovel, and I had a split second of insanity when I thought 'The wedge for this treenail for the ridge beam is too long, I'll just cut a couple of inches off the end' and my second thoughts were saying 'hey, that's crossgrained, the chip's gonna bounce' but my sideaxe was already moving. You get acid to mescaline grade colours as your retina gets overpressure damage from the bleeding. Remarkably I kept the eye, and even most of the vision in it, but the macula is spattered with blindspots and I have to wear a permanent eyepatch with diffraction grid as the iris is paralysed and most light levels are too bright, and the diffraction grid/pinhole camera effect is the only way it can focus beyond the end of my arm now. But the eyepatch makes it two lines above the eye test line where they stop it being legal to drive if it's my only eye (think about that, because I do have a spare, but that means there are people out there driving with only one eye as badly damaged as mine.) Also every week I make small children believe in pirates, which is an okay side benefit but not worth part blinding an eye.

*Had a guy doing a WW1 French Poilu proudly show up to a reenactment showing off his new purchase of a near perfect mint condition WW1 waterbottle appropriate to the kit he needed, which he then proceeded to ostentatiously fill and drink from during the battle reenactments at the air show we were at. He then proceeded to get a mint condtion case of WW1 Dysentery, as he'd neglected to sterilise and clean said waterbottle (why using originals is a fraught concern, not just because of their rarity and antique value!).

*Have another friend who has a really gravelly battle field officers voice, and a scar that goes 3/4 of the way around his neck under the chin and up the side of his ear, because he was in an ECW reenactment with the Sealed Knot and Unbeknownst to a guy on the opposing regiment, his blank firing matchlock had accidentally been loaded because the wee brass washer on the end of the ramrod had fallen off, and thus blew through my mate's neck, severing one carotid artery. He went down gushing blood and would have died had not the the woman beside him been an ambulance officer and the man on the other side of him was a Gulf War vet medic.

*Jousters. There's no way to make two horses, both carrying armoured humans with long wooden spears, moving at 30kmh, safe. Enough said.

*Had the school nurse back in the seventies, who was unflappable and in her eighties at the time, regularly do 'Just test the whole little country school for various metrics to generate useful data' and she was doing hearing tests. After the testing she came back to the school had the principal call my parents to come in, and she sat down my Mum and Dad and said 'Ok, Your children are fine, but they all show a gap in their hearing ranges that I've only seen before in combat soldiers'....

You know you've fucked up when you go to a doctor and the thing you have wrong with you has been named after an occupation that isn't a thing anymore. Like imagine a doctor looking at you and going "yeah you've got ox-drawn ploughman's disease. We don't even test for that anymore. Yeah the reason you've never heard of it is because the last known case was in 1927 and happened to some guy who was like 98 years old and didn't believe in modern medicine of the time. What the fuck have you been up to."

[dutchmn007]

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[yugoslavfub]

For mostly being milsurplus, it took me a good 50+ hours to make my Rogue One influenced Rebel trooper get up. 

[dutchmn007]

Principal photography begins this Friday, 8/13. Lots more to come! Stay tuned ;<) #history #historymemes #historyphotographed #historyfacts #historyteacher #militaryhistory #militaryhistorian #usarmy #usarmysoldier #usnavy #usnavyseals #usmc #usaf #uscg #milsurps #milsurplus #veteran #veterans #vets #vetshelpingvets #humaninterest #education (at Annapolis, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CScb9gtp8IH/?utm_medium=tumblr

[dutchmn007]

Woodworking ;<) #milsurp #milsurpguys #milsurprifle #milsurprifles #milsurps #milsurpmonday #milsurplus #garand #m1garand #usa #usa🇺🇸 #july4th #usarmy #usmc #militaryhistory #rifle #3006springfield (at Annapolis, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ9goLTJTIP/?utm_medium=tumblr

[dutchmn007]

Some #milsurp fine tuning on a Finnish 1941 Sako M-39; metal burr on mag opening interfering with Interruptor. While that has been eliminated think Spring retaining too much pressure for smooth feed. To all #mosinnagant enthusiasts: have a solution/fix? My thanx in advance!!! ;<) #milsurpguys #milsurprifle #milsurprifles #milsurps #milsurplus #mosinnagant9130 #mosinnagantrifle #finland #russia #finnishm39 #mosinnagantm9130 #gun #gunsmithing #gunsmith #worldwar2 #triggertime (at Annapolis, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQbI8GkhcNu/?utm_medium=tumblr