Comments on: Coyote Ugly

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I do Rendezvous Black Powder Re-enactments. You basically recreate the mountain man rendezvous camp-outs. Which means, dressing up in period clothing, carrying alot of weapons, living in tents and cooking out of dutch ovens and on open fires. It’s really REALLY fun. And there’s alot of drinking and guitar playing if you feel so inclined.

By: norbizness

norbizness — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I’d like that picture better if it were a live coyote, and it wasn’t so much draped over MegaFlannelMan’s shoulder as latched onto his jugular.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

It’s like the SCA, but with black powder rifles.

By: whyme63

whyme63 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Judging from the guy in this photo, I need to get my husband’s modeling career launched, pronto. He’s got the physique, and he’s got the flannel. He can grow the face grizzle. And if we need to provide his own dead coyote hat, well…at least I know where to get ‘em.

By: SneakySnu

SneakySnu — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I don’t know whether to laugh at or cry about that photo. Norbizness has summed up the sentiment nicely.

Nor do I have the energy to comment on the activity of black powder re-enactments. The brilliant first lines of Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire come to mind: “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”

By: Shaula Evans

Shaula Evans — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Miriam, I didn’t expect to run into other blackpowder shooters this way!

I have a Hopkins & Allen .36 underhammer rifle (which means I can shoot it left or right handed). I started shooting as a kid with my dad, and used to clean up tournaments in British Columbia where I grew up.

The blackpowder crowd in the Okanagan Valley was a truly delightful, down-to-earth group of people. I always thought it was a shame that I was one of the only girls/women involved in shooting, and wondered why more women didn’t get involved.

Please read all of the above comments recognizing that gun culture and politics in Canada are extremely different than in the US.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I love that the item description in their catalogue touts it as “a conversation starter at any gathering”.

No kidding. The children will be screaming, PETA members will be throwing their soup on you and the rest of the neighbours will huddle and ‘converse’ about you all night.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I just googled this black powder thing, and found a list of Camp Rules for a re-enactment which included this howler: “No fighting. This includes domestic disturbances.”

http://www.rockymntnatlrendz.com/rules.html

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Also, just to chime in with agreement- gun culture is a totally different thing up here.

(99% of)Gun owners aren’t frightening, they’re just your neighbours and farmers and guys(/some girls) who like to do shoot competitively.

Even our hunters do much less of the trophy variety of killing and instead are feeding their familes.

I heart Canada.

By: Sylvanite

Sylvanite — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

You could wear this while admiring your antler chandelier, also purchased from Cabela’s.