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sethwyo said:
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How many would give up all the things we have in this century and go back to around 1800 or so ,
somewhere thereabouts,
to stand in line and put our x in the ledger and shake Fremonts hand and with one hand and receive our rifle and kit with the other,
to give up electricity ,clean running water, toilets, our highways , our vehicles , all the food we get from the grocery stores, medical Care.

No more City council Members , no more county commissioners , no more TV,
no more monthly bills, no more politicians, no more political arguments,
No more traffic to navigate to go get food, no more fat mouths and liars.

Collecting and shooting antique and antique style muzzleloaders are a bit of an escape from the insane world we live in today.

But there are accounts of people who , while out one evening driving on the highway or out for a walk went through some fog and emerged in a different century, when the fog lifted they were returned to modern times.

There's an enormous number of missing people in this country and in the world,
it's likely that a lot of these people have tragically met with a bad end,
But I wonder if some of them went back in time, realized what had happened , Kept their cool, and just decided to avoid the fog and stay there instead of coming back to this place the rest of us hafto live in
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Don't forget 40 year life expectancy.
 
Nosiree Bob! Thank you most kindly but I would be long gone several times over without modern medical care, plus I grew up on a subsistence farm in the mountains where we mostly grew, gathered, or shot what we ate. The “Good Ol’ Days” were mostly hard work from can-see to can’t-see, plus precious few luxuries and conveniences. I can do it the hard way, have done it the hard way, and don’t feel the need to prove anything to anybody anymore, most especially myself.
 
I would love to be able to go back to certain historical events for a visit. But I wouldn't want to stay. To be able to go back and see events like Lex and Concord, Bunker Hill, the Alamo, Little Big Horn, etc. but I don't have a desire to have my hair lifted or to become a pincushion for a British bayonet.
 
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sethwyo said:
View attachment 305805

How many would give up all the things we have in this century and go back to around 1800 or so ,
somewhere thereabouts,
to stand in line and put our x in the ledger and shake Fremonts hand and with one hand and receive our rifle and kit with the other,
to give up electricity ,clean running water, toilets, our highways , our vehicles , all the food we get from the grocery stores, medical Care.

No more City council Members , no more county commissioners , no more TV,
no more monthly bills, no more politicians, no more political arguments,
No more traffic to navigate to go get food, no more fat mouths and liars.

Collecting and shooting antique and antique style muzzleloaders are a bit of an escape from the insane world we live in today.

But there are accounts of people who , while out one evening driving on the highway or out for a walk went through some fog and emerged in a different century, when the fog lifted they were returned to modern times.

There's an enormous number of missing people in this country and in the world,
it's likely that a lot of these people have tragically met with a bad end,
But I wonder if some of them went back in time, realized what had happened , Kept their cool, and just decided to avoid the fog and stay there instead of coming back to this place the rest of us hafto live in
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Whence I was younger, yes
 
NotDanielBoone said:
Don't forget 40 year life expectancy.
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The forty years was more related to childhood death rates. If … IF you made it to adulthood you had a fair chance of getting in to your sixties
And while this sounds silly they died healthy.
What I mean is they had few colds, and unless you lived in a large town you were free from flu
 
Then, if stuck there, making a living would be another issue. I'd venture a guess that the master craftsmen on this list would fare better than us airplane pilots with rudimentary handcrafting skills. I'd be busy scheming on how my 21st century knowledge could earn me an early retirement. I feel like it wouldn't be so easy.
 
I’m a firm no. My grandmother died of strep throat in 1937! Most of my people made made 60-70 but those who made it through the depression and WWII etc. and had a stable diet, good medical care and avoided cancer until the 90’s theirs or the 1990’s made 80+ with some solid 90+ mixed in. Antibiotics, pill to avoid ulcers, and no malaria, typhoid, measles, small pox and the dreaded black shits of cholera. Nope. Plus, should I want to leave it all behind, mountain man style all I need do is move to Alaska. Move, stake a land claim and build a cabin with outhouse and meat locker 20’ up. Plenty of game and forage. Make a trip to town for beans flour and lard. Maybe coffee and sugar. And bacon! Then jerk my own moose and Caribou. Hunt from August to December, fry ish in the spring until August and there you are. But with meds, and pain pills and anesthesia. Look up Dick Proenecke on YouTube. He’s the man.
 
I would go in a heartbeat,,i have lived in the woods now and then,, i dont care no war threat over my head that cant do a thing about,at least back then you could at least try to defend,if the need came to,,I could leave tv and all that,who knows,,but i at least would be more at my element with myself,besides i liked haveing to saddle up to go shoeplace or treking off into a unknown,,,you dont kone or either do i,you have to be threre to say,,why i do this??haha,,i would anyway,,,,
 

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