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When you play with guns, people get hurt....
Idiots...05-mafia I have seen some of these re-enactments. Most of the re-enactors are very responsible with their weapons, but these are functional weapons in every sense of the word. As a general rule, I don't point a weapon at anything I don't plan on killing. You don't play with guns.

RICHMOND, Va. - In the passionate world of Civil War re-enactors, authenticity is everything — from uniforms with historically correct stitching to hardtack made from scratch.

A battle re-enactment last month pushed realism to the limits: A retired New York City police officer portraying a Union soldier for a documentary film was shot in the shoulder, possibly by a Confederate re-enactor.

The shooting sent the 73-year-old to the hospital and left the Isle of Wight Sheriff's Office in rural southeastern Virginia with a Civil War-style CSI case. Investigators used film to piece together what happened and have narrowed a suspect to one re-enactor.

The Sept. 27 injury also sent ripples through the tight-knit re-enactment community, which can be understandably sensitive to public perceptions of thousands of enthusiasts toting swords and firearms in roughhewn uniforms, often on horseback.

"We were sort of freaked out because this hits the hobby hard," said Ed Hooper, editor of Camp Chase Gazette, a monthly magazine aimed at re-enactors. "It is so out of the norm.

Lord was shot in the shoulder while portraying a member of the 7th New York Cavalry. The unit answered an Internet casting call from a film company called Alderwerks.

Officials with the Virginia Film Office were not familiar with the company or the director, listed on the casting call as Matthew Burchfield, who was credited as a casting assistant on director Terrence Malick's 2006 film "The New World," starring Colin Farrell and Christian Bale.

In an e-mail to The Associated Press, Burchfield declined to discuss specifics of the filming because of the investigation.

"We are thankful for Mr. Lord's recovery and continue to keep him in our thoughts," Burchfield wrote. "We have been in full co-operation with the investigators on this case and await their findings."

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10-25-2008 10:33 PM
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Good thing they didn't have flame throwers back then.
10-25-2008 10:36 PM
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smn1256 Wrote:Good thing they didn't have flame throwers back then.

Some of the cast iron replica cannons used could fire a projectile--they are full bore. But chances are you use a full charge and a ball, they would blow up in your face, since they weren't designed to fire.
10-25-2008 10:51 PM
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WMD Owl Wrote:Idiots...05-mafia I have seen some of these re-enactments. Most of the re-enactors are very responsible with their weapons, but these are functional weapons in every sense of the word. As a general rule, I don't point a weapon at anything I don't plan on killing. You don't play with guns.
The unit answered an Internet casting call from a film company called Alderwerks.

Mightn't this be the problem? Top Internet ads not to respond to: (1) Gimp wanted, (2) people needed to stand in front of other people holding guns. Top internet ads never to post: (1) wanted: someone with a gun...
10-28-2008 11:34 AM
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Is the assumption that this perp fired a live ball on purpose?

File this one under WTF.
10-28-2008 12:04 PM
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These guys are the same sort of people as Ren-Faire freaks, only with guns.
10-28-2008 12:37 PM
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Lord Stanley Wrote:Is the assumption that this perp fired a live ball on purpose?

File this one under WTF.

These are muzzle loading muskets. Rule #1 is you usually take the rods away from everyone, to keep from ramming a ball down the barrel. To make them go boom for a camera, you don't need a rod for just powder.

#2 you just don't ram a Minet ball by "accident" since you have to put in wading and the such with the ball. You have to put some effort to push it down. You'd know there was something in there other than powder.

If its not intentional,, it was "reckless disregard"
10-28-2008 01:11 PM
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The fellow that fired that ball isn't related to Dick Cheney, by any chance, is he? 05-stirthepot
10-28-2008 01:48 PM
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Damn yankees trying to start another war.
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10-28-2008 02:14 PM
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