Best Historical Reenactment Quotes

"Cowboy action shooting is a shooting discipline based on the guns of the Old West, the days of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. We dress, for the most part, in period-accurate clothing, spurs, and chaps. It's full competition shooting, still targets with lead bullets. Sounds like a blast? It is literally a blast every time."

"Samurai and ashigaru reaching, arriving on the shore as the European ship approaches, and there is a lot to unpack here."

"Discovering this channel is what got me into living history. Thank you so much Townsend for introducing me to the next best thing to time travel."

"However, for these stays, judging them by how well they fulfilled the specific purpose of historybounding stays, I think they deserve a 5/5 stars."

"Sometimes some knights decided to participate in disguise, presenting themselves as the red knight, the white knight, the black knight."

"You certainly cannot expect a third age kite shield, ladies and gentlemen."

"Avro Lancaster bomber a lot of you been asking to see this thing in action in the Sicilian historical battle against the Luftwaffe watch your six guys I'll catch you next time."

"Jousts were done for the following reasons: to demonstrate prowess, to learn martial skills, to gain renown, to gain honor, and for the love of women."

"Comparing this armor to real high-quality armor is like comparing an airsoft gun with a real gun."

"The fun of swordplay in my mind doesn't come from brutal wars but the opportunity to put myself in the shoes of those same heroes."

"We're trying to restore the kingdom of Cornwall and then reclaim Britannia. That's the plan."

"And that's the end of the battle there. The medieval knights did manage to get the dubski."

"This is awesome! Now the French charging, they've got their cab charging in as well!"

"The zombies are getting closer and closer, and we have the first World War II death, and the second, actually, they're very slow to come up."

"The English archers would have joined the men at arms in the final assault."

"Welcome to 'I traded for every draft pick in the 2003 NBA draft and re-simulated NBA history.'"

"After spending 48 hours living in 1940s wartime..."

"I mean, look at the carnage of this area. This is why I love these Greek siege battles."

"Byzantium does have one unique achievement, Basilius, where you need to restore the Roman Empire."

"The team has done a fantastic job in bringing the past to life."

"Bless you, huzzah! We'll fight to the death, bless you!"

"One last thing I'd like to pick up on was that Matt was saying that you know our if your English and your re-enacting and he choose to reenact as a Viking you know it's as stupid as being polish and deciding to reenact as a Nazi officer."

"That was our first battle, not bad. Yeah, we won. Those peasants don't though, well you know what, they learned something, but their sharpened sticks aren't that sharp."

"The Battle of Hoth was such a moral victory for the Rebel Alliance."

"It's kind of anticipated, steal a shipment of tea. That's what pirates do, isn't it?"

"You can make a firearm of accepted 18th-century quality today if your person at home wanted to."

"This colorization by Jordan Lloyd emphasizes the true horror of the catastrophe."

"Tackling Evil Roy with the Winchester 1873: a satisfying outcome."

"So for me, wearing costume in public is actually like putting on armor, so it's like the one situation where I usually have zero anxiety because I'm not even me, I'm 18th century Kate."

"One of the best things they chose to do was to use real Civil War reenactors."

"Rent fares a 10% history 20% crazy costumes and seventy percent drunkenly beating your friends with wooden swords nothing I don't like about any of those things."

"Joining The Siege we get a chance to see what battles are really about."

"Knuckle bows... just think of what a great thing that is in a place where you're maybe an archer or a billman whatever gonna crossbowmen and you can't wear gauntlets or you don't have gauntlets you don't want to wear gauntlets for whatever reasons."

"TJ look at us boys we've only gone and bloody done it, we beat the Brits and secured independence."

"That's what I'm doing now because I want to restore the Roman Empire. That's really one of my biggest goals: to conquer, to destroy, to take over."

"I'm conquering Britain on my own, basically in the way that the Romans did."

"What makes a good reenactor set himself apart from the Farbs is research, research, research."

"The best way to identify a good reenactor is through looking at as many original photographs as possible."

"The restorationists aimed to experience Christianity as it was practiced in the early church."

"...we're assaulting up the slopes here trying to find cover behind the tree here you can hear the mini balls ricocheting off of it."

"Hopefully you've enjoyed this historical reenactment as much as I have."

"Each summer reenactors gather here to commemorate the camp's unique role during the Civil War."

"It wasn't just a bunch of riders from the stable club; it was a bunch of what looked like cowboys on horseback, and at the bottom of the hill were several covered wagons, the type you'd see in an old western movie."

"...I was impressed with the authenticity of their costumes and the wagons and wanted to see them up close."

"The very early types of tournaments were more of a sort of mock battle between two actual armies."

"Sometimes watching the movie Gettysburg is difficult for me because a lot of my fellow reenactors and close friends have passed away."

"I love it when he plays out those historical dialogues."

"It's truly about fun and living history exactly as it was lived back in those time periods."

"I use waxed Irish linen... it's not going to fade on you, and it is a very authentic way of trying to recreate the items they would have used on the frontier in the 1700s."

"Interpretation is what this is all about; that's the whole point of historical reenactment."

"I am going to bring history back to life... 'cause I want to see what it tastes like!"

"Even if you don't have the perfect equipment or the perfect gear for the time period, you can get out and enjoy doing this."

"Faulkner was trying to bring back these situations to show what was happening in a slave's life."

"The land is the star of our reenactment; it is the star of the show."

"I'm gonna be throwing some tea into the harbor, and I'm so excited."

"As you look around here, I want you to just think about literally hundreds and hundreds of people swarming around here."

"It takes you right back to 79 AD."

"I'm portraying pre-1840, the golden age of the fur trade."

"It's really a learning opportunity. It's an opportunity to both camp in 18th century style and enjoy the camaraderie of your friends."

"Civil War reenacting really took off in the 60s."

"If you want to actually try living in the shoes of a medieval person, the Pennsic War is the best place in the world to do it."

"If you are really into your longsword and you want to explore the parameters of historical longsword training... do it with a historical tool that's modeled on an actual surviving original."

"They spend all this money on this fabulous armor so that they can make an appearance and just for a couple of seconds, the Queen will go 'Oh, that's quite good'."

"I think it's really, really important that people do recreate these things."

"As we rose from our lying position behind the Stonewall, Clarke baring the colors of the seventh regiment unfurled them faultlessly."

"It's such a fascinating way to relive history because again, you remember these are real-life events, real things that happened."

"Historical shooting exists on a scale between the activities of target or recreational shooting on one end and reenactment or living history on the other."

"This is a German counter-attack against the American spearhead."