Sarge, I use to be in the Cowboy Action Shooting community for many years out west. We give preformed “Train Robberies” for our local 1880 Train customers. However, the amount of historical accuracy and references sites were difficult to find. I great appreciate you and several other references sites in providing very useful information about the Golden Age of Camping. Thank you
Yah, reference material for civilian impressions is definitely lacking. Military impressions need only go to the relevant manual and everything you have to have is listed right there. Thanks for watching!
Great gear set up. The jerkin should be more common as it was issued to AEF in 1918. They had a wool model as well. Some just cobbled one together from the hide of sheep or goat. If you want one different from everyone else get the Australian Digger Jerkin. There is also the British flyer's jerkin that wrapped across like flyer's coat. Most when they think of WW1 forget the soldiers occupying Germany as well as those that were in Russia helping the White Army.
Thanks for watching. Yah, the wool version is another option for surplus, as are commercial sweater vests, etc. The idea is to have something authentic that efficiently keeps your core temperature where it should be.
To waterproof repro jackets to get the proper feel of the waterproof cotton to use a spray on waterproofing. After it dries it feels like its suppose to.
Thanks for watching! It got down into the 30s down here yesterday, so I was able to wear that shearling jacket. Gonna do it again today, and it looks like it will be cold all weekend while we're camping.
@@sargevining nothing like a good jacket to keep you warm. If you get Cold throw more wood on the fire 🔥. If that does not work . Get in your sleeping bag. Ya it's cold up here in Massachusetts. Still waiting for a nor Easter. Have fun. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.
Thanks for watching and the great question. Short answer right now is I don't know, but I'll start looking. My initial gut feeling is that post WW2 might be the answer, but right now that's just a guess.
@@sargevining Thanks for the honest answer. No need to look further on my account. Thanks for the offer. After looking further at the officers Mac and my old Cabelas canvas coat, it would be easy to add buttons and string loops like on the officers Mac. Thanks Again.
Jerkins are ideal but they were a British & Canadian issue item, even worn in WW2. They weren't issued to American soldiers, ever, so they wouldn't have been a surplus item commonly found in the States post WW1..
I'll disagree. Leather jerkins were produced by the US for use by troops in the AEF and there are definite US and British versions. Towards the end of the war the US specification changed to delete the leather and issue an all wool version to save on the industrial usage of leather which at the time was a strategic material. Like many articles produced for the AEF's anticipated Spring 1919 offensive, which was cancelled when the Armistice as signed in November 1918, a large quantity of this materiel was sitting in dock side warehouses at the end of the war and were sold on the US Surplus market. www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/257929-aef-jerkins-1917-to-1919/#comment-2068021 See page 32 here in the W. Stokes Kirk 1921 Catalog. You can also find them being marketed in the Sears Roebuck catalog: archive.org/details/hhbooker2_yahoo_001_201802/032.jpg Thanks for watching!
Where can I find any event for Classic Camping in Texas? I've been a reenactor for forty or so years and have never seen an event for Classic Camping. Can you direct me to any events here in Texas? Thank you for any help you might be able to provide.
Best recommendation I can make is to Join the Bannerman's Camp Facebook Group. It was originally founded for Texas Classic Campers but its grown a bit. We're loosely associated with no formal organization. There are two Public Events at the Pioneer Flight Museum in Kingsbury, one in the Spring and one in the Fall. Its a Wings and Wheels kind of thing and we're there to interpret motor camping in the 1920s & 30s as a compliment to the Model T and other vintage vehicles that attend, as well as the aircraft from Between The Wars. We also do periodic FUBU camping trips that we call Bannerman's In The Wild. We'll go out to a remote location, usually in the Sam Houston National Forest and camp out in a Base Camp scenario, or we go on treks to locations within the forest. Bannerman;s Camp was created based on the notion that the campfire is actually the Heart and Soul of Living History regardless of period and the knowledge that most Reenactors/Living Historians have a closet full of stuff that would qualify as "Army Surplus" bought from Francis Bannerman's catalog. We also will do Post WW2 trips using gear from the 60s/70s---some of which can also be "Army Surplus". Whereabouts in Texas are you?
@@jamesstewart1535 I'm familiar with the area. Spent a few years living in Denton (my Son lives there now), and I spent a couple years at Ft. Sill. There's actually been some discussion about a 1960s/70s themed trip to the LBJ Grasslands sometime this Spring.
@@sargevining If you would let me know if it's a go. It's been years since I was at Ft. Sill. Like you I served in the Army. By the way I like you am in my 70s. Please let me know the dates of the next event down your way.
![1930s Winter Outdoor Gear! [ Survival Items ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/d9JASRH-nfI/mqdefault.jpg)
Sarge, I use to be in the Cowboy Action Shooting community for many years out west. We give preformed “Train Robberies” for our local 1880 Train customers. However, the amount of historical accuracy and references sites were difficult to find. I great appreciate you and several other references sites in providing very useful information about the Golden Age of Camping. Thank you
Yah, reference material for civilian impressions is definitely lacking. Military impressions need only go to the relevant manual and everything you have to have is listed right there. Thanks for watching!
Great gear set up. The jerkin should be more common as it was issued to AEF in 1918. They had a wool model as well. Some just cobbled one together from the hide of sheep or goat. If you want one different from everyone else get the Australian Digger Jerkin. There is also the British flyer's jerkin that wrapped across like flyer's coat. Most when they think of WW1 forget the soldiers occupying Germany as well as those that were in Russia helping the White Army.
Thanks for watching. Yah, the wool version is another option for surplus, as are commercial sweater vests, etc. The idea is to have something authentic that efficiently keeps your core temperature where it should be.
To waterproof repro jackets to get the proper feel of the waterproof cotton to use a spray on waterproofing. After it dries it feels like its suppose to.
I'll give that a shot. The tanalite fabric on my Cruiser tent does have a very distinctive feel that I's like to replicate. Thanks for watching!
Good video. Nice jackets. GOD bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.
Thanks for watching! It got down into the 30s down here yesterday, so I was able to wear that shearling jacket. Gonna do it again today, and it looks like it will be cold all weekend while we're camping.
@@sargevining nothing like a good jacket to keep you warm. If you get Cold throw more wood on the fire 🔥. If that does not work . Get in your sleeping bag. Ya it's cold up here in Massachusetts. Still waiting for a nor Easter. Have fun. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.
Another great video. When did metal snap type closures come into use on coats?
Thanks for watching and the great question. Short answer right now is I don't know, but I'll start looking. My initial gut feeling is that post WW2 might be the answer, but right now that's just a guess.
@@sargevining Thanks for the honest answer. No need to look further on my account. Thanks for the offer.
After looking further at the officers Mac and my old Cabelas canvas coat, it would be easy to add buttons and string loops like on the officers Mac.
Thanks Again.
Jerkins are ideal but they were a British & Canadian issue item, even worn in WW2. They weren't issued to American soldiers, ever, so they wouldn't have been a surplus item commonly found in the States post WW1..
I'll disagree. Leather jerkins were produced by the US for use by troops in the AEF and there are definite US and British versions. Towards the end of the war the US specification changed to delete the leather and issue an all wool version to save on the industrial usage of leather which at the time was a strategic material. Like many articles produced for the AEF's anticipated Spring 1919 offensive, which was cancelled when the Armistice as signed in November 1918, a large quantity of this materiel was sitting in dock side warehouses at the end of the war and were sold on the US Surplus market.
www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/257929-aef-jerkins-1917-to-1919/#comment-2068021
See page 32 here in the W. Stokes Kirk 1921 Catalog. You can also find them being marketed in the Sears Roebuck catalog:
archive.org/details/hhbooker2_yahoo_001_201802/032.jpg
Thanks for watching!
Where can I find any event for Classic Camping in Texas? I've been a reenactor for forty or so years and have never seen an event for Classic Camping. Can you direct me to any events here in Texas? Thank you for any help you might be able to provide.
Best recommendation I can make is to Join the Bannerman's Camp Facebook Group. It was originally founded for Texas Classic Campers but its grown a bit. We're loosely associated with no formal organization. There are two Public Events at the Pioneer Flight Museum in Kingsbury, one in the Spring and one in the Fall. Its a Wings and Wheels kind of thing and we're there to interpret motor camping in the 1920s & 30s as a compliment to the Model T and other vintage vehicles that attend, as well as the aircraft from Between The Wars.
We also do periodic FUBU camping trips that we call Bannerman's In The Wild. We'll go out to a remote location, usually in the Sam Houston National Forest and camp out in a Base Camp scenario, or we go on treks to locations within the forest.
Bannerman;s Camp was created based on the notion that the campfire is actually the Heart and Soul of Living History regardless of period and the knowledge that most Reenactors/Living Historians have a closet full of stuff that would qualify as "Army Surplus" bought from Francis Bannerman's catalog. We also will do Post WW2 trips using gear from the 60s/70s---some of which can also be "Army Surplus".
Whereabouts in Texas are you?
@@sargevining Sarge, I life about 75 miles west of Ft. Worth and about 75 miles south of Witchita Fallss. I volunteer at Ft. Richardson state park.
@@jamesstewart1535 I'm familiar with the area. Spent a few years living in Denton (my Son lives there now), and I spent a couple years at Ft. Sill. There's actually been some discussion about a 1960s/70s themed trip to the LBJ Grasslands sometime this Spring.
@@sargevining If you would let me know if it's a go. It's been years since I was at Ft. Sill. Like you I served in the Army. By the way I like you am in my 70s. Please let me know the dates of the next event down your way.
Oh by the way I'm not a face book fan.