Juried Rendezvous

BillyC said:

I guess I just don’t understand how what someone else is wearing or sleeping in affects your experience. I get that you don’t want someone camped next to you blasting rap music over a stereo but limiting what type of eyeglasses or shoes the other guy wears seems ridiculous to me, but I don’t do any reenactment so really don’t care how they are run.

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Exactly
Here we are on a traditional ml forum. Now do you care if some one shoots an inline or black powder cartridge? I dont
But we have a forum where those sort of guns aren’t talked about.
A juried event is just a bunch of folks agreeing what their camp should be.
You invest in all the toys to make a period camp, it’s just fun to have the camps around you the same. So you get together with like minded folk and set up a camp
It doesn’t make any difference if it’s rev war or WW2, it’s just nerds making a camp that they all want to go play in

Coot said:

So going to church or a fancy wedding where everyone else is dressed up & someone shows up in cut-offs & a tee does not impact the experience for the others? It is a way of saying that I don't care or that I don't think your event is worth my bothering to meet standards. It leads to others thinking that if the one doesn't care why should I & the event begins to die.
At night, after the public hours are over and the camp is lit by candles & campfires, one can think that it must have been something like this. But one bright white Coleman lantern destroys the image.

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Just what you’re paying the price, not just entry fee but the cost of your camp. For just a fleeting time you are there

rangerzdral said:

Yeah as you sitting next to a $2500 custom built rifle

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What’s even a small period tent cost next to nylon tents. A few blankets compared to even the best sleeping bag. Maybe your kettles and dinner set compared to plastic and speckle ware at back packers gear.
Even playing poor boy is expensive

tenngun said:

What’s even a small period tent cost next to nylon tents. A few blankets compared to even the best sleeping bag. Maybe your kettles and dinner set compared to plastic and speckle ware at back packers gear.
Even playing poor boy is expensive

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Brother everything is expensive right now

It is all good as long as you know the rules before you get there. If you know the rules, you can decide if you want to play. If you don't want to play by their rules, find a different place to play.

Polecat_Tom said:

It is all good as long as you know the rules before you get there. If you know the rules, you can decide if you want to play. If you don't want to play by their rules, find a different place to play.

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Correct I now have the rules and will take pics at my next outting and send them in for pre-approval

Coot said:

Hooters = Porta-johns, or in the case of event, actual outhouses.

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oh dang. lol. thought hooters was something else

oldschoolhunter55 said:

oh dang. lol. thought hooters was something else

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Are you referring to the Al Bundy version of the word or the place that sells high priced chicken wings?

Rebel bull said:

I think you missed my point if we get them hooked with shooting they will maybe continue to come and participate. If we don't grow our sport we die! cowboy action was all the rage and now is doing terribly part of the reason is the clothing requirements. The shooting is the hook.

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Good sir, I would humbly disagree in that we all have our own reasons to participate. Many leave when they conflict with another’s reasons. We’re all on the same team, but many can only be on a team if they are in charge.

French Colonial said:

IMHO Cowboy action shooting shot themselves in the foot (feet?) when they got away from the history and became USPSA for six shooters and short stroked lever guns.

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Exactly so

Johnny Too-Tall said:

How picky are they usually for a walk in at a Juried Rendezvous. There is one a about 3.5 hours away from me with $25,000 in prizes and I haven't heard back from the POC on the flier. My clothes are proper and all my rifles are custom built, and have a smoothie being made right now as well. Also I am not new to rendezvous and competed in them through out the country but all were non-juried.

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I like "juried" events. I don't like all the modern things in camps, like workboots, foxtails hanging from the back of women's dresses, etc. Years ago I was at an event that had a great woods walk. Except, the shooters were carrying plastic handled brass range rods in "holsters" on the belts and all kind of modern gear to load and shoot. I competed out of my bag. I never went back.

If we are going to do things as they did in the past, a juried event is a good thing. it keeps the workboots and foxtails out of camp....it keeps the sleeping bags and Coleman stoves out....it keeps flashlights out.

Go, learn and go back. Continuously improve your gear, if that is what you desire. IF accuracy of clothing and gear is not your thing....don't go to a juried event.

Johnny Too-Tall said:

Are you referring to the Al Bundy version of the word or the place that sells high priced chicken wings?

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high priced chicken place. lol.

Flint. said:

On public day at a rendezvous, someone said to a friend of mine “You wouldn’t have to live like this if you would get a job”.

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I have a long term friend of mine here in Australia who reenacts late 18th early 19th Century Napoleonic 42nd RHR (Black Watch) and Nelsons Navy as "Surgeon Strong", he was carrying out an mock but very realistic "amputation" (actually has a complete 18th century Surgeons chest with all the instruments of the time); other reenactors holding "the patient" down as he screamed blue murder; blood and gore galore being splashed about as onlookers a short distance away gasped in horror, a couple of Japanese women tourists fainted !

Wow, just Wow.
I have watched many a good event literally destroyed by those who want to play but dont want to 'play'.
They come in and say "We are here but screw the rules". Next thing you know there are doozies running around with their ta ta's hanging out, men running around in pink tutus, guys walking around all dressed in black with umbrellas carried in sword sheaths and lots of other abominations.

Why is it that they feel they don't need to play by the rules to play the game? Are they bothered that they can't walk the walk but think they can talk the talk? Are the upset they are not good enough to put in their own 'No Rules' event?

I just don't understand the mindset of kids today.
If you go to a hot rod event but don't have a hot rod, do you think you should still be allowed to enter your scooter...just because you came?

Yes, it is Their event and therfore it is Their rules. Big deal, get over it, either play the game, watch them at, or stay home.
Bottom line: if you don't like them then they probably don't like you. Simple.

But I know who's camp I would prefer to sit in.

PathfinderNC said:

Ok- late 17’th century Europe: poor people enjoying tobacco, and using Newspapers? This is funny!

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and true.

tenngun said:

What’s even a small period tent cost next to nylon tents. A few blankets compared to even the best sleeping bag. Maybe your kettles and dinner set compared to plastic and speckle ware at back packers gear.
Even playing poor boy is expensive

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You are correct it's always been costly to play this game and it takes a lot more effort to set up a period camp than a nylon popup.
I just got back from Old Mines, and I'm beat, it ain't as easy as it was 30 years ago I'm thinking I need a one poler, so I don't have to spent as much time putting up and tearing down.

The Time and expense put forth. If you get something out of it all the Better. Some may not have the inclination the time nor funding. if it floats your Boat go for it..

sussexmuzllodr said:

The Time and expense put forth. If you get something out of it all the Better. Some may not have the inclination the time nor funding. if it floats your Boat go for it..

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What has made it worthwhile for me is I decided to try this and went small in the beginning with just a diamond/plow type set up which isn't all the expensive and it's for people younger than I am now.
I started doing leather work and putting out a trade blanket which has paid for all the thing I have now but all the money in the world won't make me any younger......

I started with a used Whelen that was patched when I got it and patched more while I owned it with poles and stakes I cut as needed.

That was before I knew better and got a better more HC tent, I started on the cheap because I had a family to raise and four boys who kept the refrigerator empty.

A better kit comes with research and saving up over time to buy it.

French Colonial said:

I started with a used Whelen that was patched when I got it and patched more while I owned it with poles and stakes I cut as needed.

That was before I knew better and got a better more HC tent, I started on the cheap because I had a family to raise and four boys who kept the refrigerator empty.

A better kit comes with research and saving up over time to buy it.

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A better kit comes with research . Ain’t that the truth. We thought we were shinning in the 80s with a ton of cast iron and Tandy gold skins
I’m 66 now I hope by 90 to have a compleatly hc camp and kit