Re-Enacting - Anyone here do it?

Re-Enacting

I will be trying to start one up in the Edmonton Area. I understand out at my gun club there are a few fella's that get all dressed up in WWII Cdn kit and spend a day blasting WWII weapons dressed up. I am just about complete in putting together my Waffen SS Grenader uniform, that involved the local mil surplus store "Milarm" and ebay. Your right once the wife finds out, well read my quote below....

Anyway I'll be dressed up shooting my K98 AND P-38 until I can find a group that actually wants to meet off range and do some war games etc.. I think it's a cool thing to do, just to see all the different kits people would have.

Cheers
 
check the gear or otherr stuff 4 sale section i got a few tinks to sell...... repro ww2 german /russian stuffs........still no contacts from those in eastern canada ok dark-exec?
from me /nuff said
 
Re-Enacting

There are a few groups in the Maritimes that are involved in Re-Enacting.

There is one group in F&I Danks Rangers in NB
Highland Regiment F&I group in NS
Civil War group 20th Maine Co. I Union, NB & NS
4th Texas Confederate NB & NS
1St Canadian Parachute Battalion 1943 NB & NS

The Civil War groups are the biggest due to so many US groups. I have been to events with attendance of both sides as large as 8,000 and they are interesting. They don't want Bubba or polyester Re-Enactors in these events. If some one goes to great expense to be correct they don't want to be next to someone with a stand out corny uniform. But it goes both ways some of the guys that purchase uniforms from a supplier or Sutler don't want to pay $300 for a tunic that has been approved by a hard-core group, when they can buy a passable one for less than $100. And some of the thread counters are overweight guys that look out of place in that time period. You didn’t see many 250 or 300 lb foot soldiers.

If it's close and fits in, don't make it an arms race. The thread pickers are sometimes as bad as the polyester Re-Enactors. Have fun but be reasonable.
Cut the new guys some slack or help him out so they can fit in.
 
well said

i concure and albayo is a stand up guy .........hope all is well from yer bud up north of you. :dancingbanana: :dancingbanana:

albayo said:
There are a few groups in the Maritimes that are involved in Re-Enacting.

There is one group in F&I Danks Rangers in NB
Highland Regiment F&I group in NS
Civil War group 20th Maine Co. I Union, NB & NS
4th Texas Confederate NB & NS
1St Canadian Parachute Battalion 1943 NB & NS

The Civil War groups are the biggest due to so many US groups. I have been to events with attendance of both sides as large as 8,000 and they are interesting. They don't want Bubba or polyester Re-Enactors in these events. If some one goes to great expense to be correct they don't want to be next to someone with a stand out corny uniform. But it goes both ways some of the guys that purchase uniforms from a supplier or Sutler don't want to pay $300 for a tunic that has been approved by a hard-core group, when they can buy a passable one for less than $100. And some of the thread counters are overweight guys that look out of place in that time period. You didn’t see many 250 or 300 lb foot soldiers.

If it's close and fits in, don't make it an arms race. The thread pickers are sometimes as bad as the polyester Re-Enactors. Have fun but be reasonable.
Cut the new guys some slack or help him out so they can fit in.
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I'd love to get into WWII re-enacting,
I was going to say "but I can't because I live in ON"
however now that I see all these posts about it being 'mostly in ON etc' i'm intruiged
however i don't quite understand where there are resources of information/contact/organization for this..

Is there a sort of "unified" site of groups who do this?
I'd like to do Canadian, U.S. or British..
but I'd like to actually be in contact with these groups to a certain extent before deciding what to work on..
 
Your best bet for WW2 Canadian is the Perth Regiment, many of the guys live in and around Toronto. Events are held at CFB Borden.

Contact: Museum of Applied Military History. 85 Fog Road, King City, Ontario. L7B 1A3. Canada.
 
JP said:
Your best bet for WW2 Canadian is the Perth Regiment, many of the guys live in and around Toronto. Events are held at CFB Borden.

Contact: Museum of Applied Military History. 85 Fog Road, King City, Ontario. L7B 1A3. Canada.
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Thanks very much!

no email or phone I take it? (or Website of the group)

thanks though!
 
If you get something organized in Edmonton, don't forget to invite us from Medicine Hat.

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JP said:
Perth Regiment

There is a website, but it has not been updated since 2005. I do know the mailling address is still good and that is why I posted it.

http://www.perthregiment.com/
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This is the group with which I participate. They used to have representation from Ottawa all the way down to Windsor but the vast majority of folks now seem to be in southern Ont. They're a great group and always looking for new blood. You're expected to wear period-looking kit but they're not a bunch of stitch counters. For public displays, accuracy is stressed but when you're in the field, no one wants to see you trash your authentic 1943-dated battledress so there is some flex to the rules.

For those in the region, I highly recommend.
 
If you are reenacting, you need someone to shoot at, so german reenactors are needed . Same as doing Napoleonic wars, you need some french, or American Civil war, you need confederates.

HOWEVER I would draw the line at SS.
 
John Sukey said:
If you are reenacting, you need someone to shoot at, so german reenactors are needed . Same as doing Napoleonic wars, you need some french, or American Civil war, you need confederates.

HOWEVER I would draw the line at SS.
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I wouldn't reenact SS either but I don't have a problem with most of the Canadians I know that do it, I've met some nut job American SS reenactors that keep me away from US events though. However, German reenacting isn't just about someone to shoot at anymore than Canadian is about someone for the Germans to shoot at. It's all a big learning and teaching experience, for me teaching is the most important thing we do.
 
Dimitri said:
John Sukey,

I guess that means your a Yankee ?? :p

Dimitri
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Well, though I live in Arizona, I ain't no Secesh.

In any case, now I reenact the 92nd foot. (Gordons)

At one time many years ago, did Indian Wars 5th cav, in fact I started the group with a friend in the 60's. Switched to 4th Artillery and once owned a M1841 mountain howitzer
 
John,

Got ya ;) So I guess if your using a old term like Secesh that means you call the war "The War of Southern Rebelion" then ?? :p

The US Civil War is the only civil war I ever decided to read about. :)

Dimitri
 
well I certainly don't call it the "war of Nawthern Agression" or "the late unpleasentness";)
"We'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree"
(to the tune of the Battle hymn of the Republic")

John Wilkes Booth did for the south what Gravillo Princip did for Serbia.
 
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