How Do World War II Re-enactors Know If They Get "Shot"? (Part 1)

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[@andreasplosky8516]

So basically you could kill an entire battalion with just one bullet.

[@E7FiretrUCK]

Not necessarily. Everybody wants to stay alive and actually play/have fun but there are those couple of people who don’t want to play for too long or have grown tired of doing it that they take early hits. But with what he’s saying applies to any era of reenacting that involves the use of guns.

[@HipposHateWater]

IF IT WAS FROM AN M1911 .45 ACP THEN THAT'S H'WAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM IT MY DADDY KILLED FIDDY JAPPY MEN WITH ONE SHOT WITH ONE 45 ACP GAWDS CALIBER CAN I GET AN AMEN -9TH INFANTRY "HELL'S FURRIES" 45TH PLATOON GAWBLESS SON

[@adler.76251]

​@@HipposHateWater amen brotha, the cartridge of real men, not like the puny 9mm, which may kill the body, but the 45 kills the soul

[@blitzkrieg7133]

@@HipposHateWater the most american thing you could have said

[@legendphil6232]

Yes

[@Blackhawk4208]

“I shot you in the face” “Nuh uh”

[@ThatCrabGuy]

💀

[@ilikememes4485]

Me and my friends in 1st grade playing cops and robbers 💀

[@user-iw7ne7sy5q]

I didn't feel it, so it doesn't count.

[@BadTradeOffers]

@@user-iw7ne7sy5q”I said T O!”

[@rednad6372]

"Huh huh!"

[@santafewarbonnetproductions]

Just yell across the field like you're playing dodgeball "you're out!!" 😂

[@justsomerandomguy9228]

"awee damn it"

[@edwardkenway148]

*shouts in a german accent from the beach bunker* -CALL YOUR HITS ASSHOLE

[@santafewarbonnetproductions]

@@edwardkenway148 😂😆

[@AdVictoriamBOS]

@@edwardkenway148😂😂

[@liamrichardson6830]

"I got you!" "Nuh-uh! I have mega armor!"

[@rednad6372]

"No! That's not fair!" "Well I do!" "Hmphh"

[@doglover5591]

@@rednad6372"Your just mad that your not as good!" "BRO I LITERALLY GOT YOU OUT FAIR AND SQUARE!!" "Well, suck it."

[@rednad6372]

@@doglover5591 "DIRECTOR! DIRECTOR! HE CHEATED!" "No I didn't!" "Yuh huh!" "Nuh uh!" "Yuh huh!" "Nuh uh!" "STOP ARGUING!"

[@doglover5591]

@@rednad6372 "Now... Could you please tell me how this all started?" "Well.. I got him out, but then he said that he has mega armor so he-" "I DO HAVE MEGA ARMOR!!" "Now, now. Nobody has mega armor." "Cmon man! Thats so unfair!"

[@rednad6372]

@@doglover5591 "See! You can't have mega armour! I win!" "Calm down, you're a german soldier in a D-Day reenactment. You really wanna say you're winning?" "Ok...:("

[@krautsweeper1918]

imagine MG 42s just spraying across a field and getting all the hits

[@MetalheadMitch762]

I'm an MG-42 gunner in reenactments and I wish that was the case. American reenactors are notorious for not taking their hits, especially airborne. On the other hand, British/French Resistance reenactors do take their hits.

[@krautsweeper1918]

@@MetalheadMitch762 dang, thats a shame, but at the same time it does keep the field somewhat fair instead of everyone on the enemy team just dropping dead from a spray innit XD

[@ron7763]

maybe you should bring your another MG 42 if u know what i mean

[@AidanJ-ec3qw]

​@MetalheadMitch762 yeah American reenactor here. Sometimes both sides are clueless. My first reenactment I kept hearing the mg42 go off didn't know where it was and look to my left and sitting under a tree spraying our mortar squad and got me lol. Tho the same guy liked staying alive because I got him with my .30 cal on our jeep and he was apparently go's.

[@angryeliteultragree6329]

@@MetalheadMitch762Mount bayonet.

[@mr.maniac6328]

"You got shot!" "Nuh-Uh, I had the shield that blocks everything!"

[@xclarxx420]

“I got you!” “Nuh uh I got plot armor” 😊

[@vidsforURentertainment]

What is the age you need to be in a ww2 re-enactment?

[@Ilovechocolatelabs]

It’s usually 18 years old to do any sort of combat roll even unarmed except for some civil war re-enactments but if your to young for that start as a cook helper! Or as some one he helps doctors! Or hell if you got the connections be a motor pool helper!

[@alanxu3936]

Well if it's the Battle of Berlin, any age will do for the Germans.

[@TheJimmyp427]

​@@Ilovechocolatelabs sadly, some younger boys feel the need to join and lie about their age to get a combat role. War is hell

[@darrianweathington1923]

Willing...

[@JaydonLewis0]

​@@Ilovechocolatelabscan 15 year olds do a picketts mill reenactment as a combat role

[@huntercovington913]

No it's like when kids are paying pretend with toys. "I got you" "No you didnt" "I can dodge bullets" "That's impossible" "Nuh uh because I'm Neo"

[@warthunder9155]

"I have neo proof bullets, no take backs"

[@M5guy8191]

@@warthunder9155”I’m Neos dad, Im god!!”

[@yuantsui6276]

'I caught your bullet with my hand'

[@theducknamednewepicla9507]

Yeah

[@carrott36]

@@yuantsui6276”I have an elaborate trap that means you will explode!”

[@hayward5606]

Grandpa: War is hell, I did a lot of bad thing.. Grandson: MG131 GO BRRRRT

[@joshuauriarte452]

I've seen some reenactments that use a hit detection system kinda like laser tag. It doesn't say anything, it just buzzes.

[@conscript900]

Sounds to me some like that one system the army uses for training. Bassically just suped up laser tag. which would probably be great for general Reenactment.

[@AAAComics]

Good advice! Ill be participating in my first reenactment in the next two weeks

[@cam6202]

How did you get in contact with your local reenactment group?

[@napalmIntheAM]

@@cam6202 what state also

[@Ilovechocolatelabs]

So glad to see more people getting in to this! I used to reenact a while back would love to get back in to it there just ain’t much action out here where I am haha

[@orionfreed6763]

I imagine now that world war 2 veterans are insanely rare, mythologized versions of the Second World War will become more prominent, which could cause a resurgence in interest that would inevitably lead to more re-enactments as well

[@Ilovechocolatelabs]

@@orionfreed6763 I hope your right about that and that it doesn’t make to much ignorance about the war either with the way people look at history now it’s hard to tell but again I hope your right

[@bodacioust1059]

I’m jealous of you guys, I’ve been seeing so many re-enact ww2 battles when so I go out and it’s driving me crazy because I love history, and I love learning about ww2, in the same case the only reason why I have all my grandpas war stuff is because of this, y’all are lucky

[@DDDadToTheBone]

Cringe lords, if war is so cool to you then go sign up at your local branch

[@David_bruh59]

Tactics battles are more just like airsoft, but without BBs and more realistic

[@seigehollands]

I wish I could have the money and time to do this . If I could even find a place or organization that does this .

[@forsakenace9577]

“No full auto in the building!”

[@Fck_the_atf]

“No shotguns in the tranches” -the germans

[@aaronomahony]

Beautiful uniform ❤

[@Y7s_stuff]

"Gotcha!" "You hit my leg"

[@robertspeedwagon982]

It also depends if the group uses blanks or airsoft. Even though I doubt the second one ever being used for show battles.

[@schnelletruppenreenacting1959]

A GI reenactor talking about taking a hit?? That's crazy😂 all jokes, love your channel man!

[@shikikankillzone4239]

Imagine an actual gunner gets transported to our time, grabs the nearest MG-42 and just goes: "Why aren't they dying, I'm lagging like shit"

[@enclavecommsofficer]

“just a packet burst, bro”

[@RedTalonTaskForce]

Id love to be in a Re-enactment just to be the point-man so when I eventually get shot I can scream ‘sanitator!’ like a banshee. (Sanitator was the German word for medic during World War Two for anyone who was wondering.)

[@spinosaurusiii7027]

*Sanitäter, and it's not exclusive to WWII... why would it be? It's not like all of German was made up by the bad guys

[@tacocat4252]

Wondered about this since some civil/revolutionary war reenactors use different colored powder pouches to determine when to be wounded or killed and it gets to be completely random, but that’s slightly harder with magazines

[@chrislowry3822]

Same as Civil War re-enactments You decide when you get hit In my group we put a color in the powder. So when you shot and you saw the color you took a hit. You never knew when you would get "hit"

[@shipsability]

Such a smart idea.

[@chrislowry3822]

@@shipsability Yup it was we used to make bets on how long someone would be in the fight before they took a hit

[@guegaming19]

German bears ww2🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡

[@Buddygold9509]

A friend does Civil War re-enactments. He says that the agreement is that during the battle, men whose birthday falls within a couple of specific dates will agree to die sometime during the volley of fire.

[@Sinxytlol3]

I expected this man to get shot at the end

[@rocketwastaken]

**hears gunshot** Heh, I've been preparing for this moment since the day I was born **dodges**

[@yolapersona]

"Haha you missed: the show. "

[@NGMonocrom]

Civil war re-enactors are told ahead of time, which they'll be during a battle. Deceased, wounded, walking wounded, unharmed. Each one told individually.

[@conscript900]

Sounds like a solid system i heard some units will use A month to call out for the next recieving volley. (even heard June is a common dont call as half the units wiped hahahah)

[@Galib_Online]

Dude i was soo paranoid for this, thanks for explaining

[@lordgaming1943]

The military use a Lasser tag like system that fits to the muzzle of the gun and shots the a laser when the gun goes off so something like that might be worth looking into

[@TheSoupSHOW34]

love how he is a medic and talking about this ☠️

[@darrianweathington1923]

Answered my question from the past

[@h3r3tic66]

Fun fact: most medics in ww2 never had a red cross on the helmet, because it would give away their position to enemy forces

[@user-kq8cb3le2j]

Paint ball in red in color

[@Noobixm-GGD]

Or if you’re not sure you can always just drop down and pretend you were non-fatally injured

[@user-iw7ne7sy5q]

"It's not fair! I wasn't ready!"

[@phalamy9180]

For dramatic effect, you can also act like you were hit in the arm or leg and crawl a bit instead of playing dead immediately. (Then play dead if you think you got hit again or if enough time passed that you think you would have reasonably passed out or bled out)

[@thesouthernbearsfan]

As a civil war reenactor same

[@reubenbellaney1271]

I asked the same question yesterday lol💀

[@josephoboczky6355]

Trip to Conneaut second week of August Normandy reenactment. Largest in the country over 1200 reenactors landing craft flyovers tanks and a huge crowd. Well worth the trip.

[@HipposHateWater]

Never participated in a mass-battle reenactment (of any era), but was always curious about the commonalities

[@MikeyTheMemer]

You should make a video about the the leather chinstrap in the liner

[@potatosalad6699]

It’s way easier in civil war and revolutionary war reenactments but I would be lost in world war reenactments 😂

[@aaroneclipse-merriweather]

THANK YOU!

[@user-mw5vr8zs1v]

You're pure talent.

[@THE_GUY_ONE]

Airsoft reenactors have entered the chat.

[@cwrproductions1860s]

I do Civil War reenacting and it is the same for deaths

[@nihtgengalastnamegoeshere7526]

Oh man, that sounds like a nightmare. I used to do Viking re-enactment, it was purely competitive- you know you're hit when you get HIT. Having to just use my judgement on when I should go down sounds like a major headache.

[@Bravo-Too-Much]

The Lord of Legacy Larp.

[@russby3554]

One guy I watch who does AWI said its funny the number of guys who "take a hit" in the shady parts of fields. He also said in his unit, they kinda rotate who will go down when during show engagements. It wouldn't look good for a small, long ranged volley to suddenly wipe out the whole line!

[@janmiklavcic8368]

"How do you know if you were shot in WW2 re-anactors" THA FUCKING PAIN!!!!!!

[@Armageddon2077]

Bro looks faded in this short

[@gambleoakranch]

High af

[@BrianHayter-zl2uc]

Pretty good Chanell like your work

[@schrungy5757]

Part 2 would be cool

[@michallucianprenoveau8070]

Tops you look like the guy who played captain America 😂

[@user-xp8sk4ze2i]

Soldier rizz

[@youraverageheerreenactor6330]

In the UK we aren’t allowed front venting blank guns unless you have a gun license, which means you rarely see the muzzle flash and reenacting is just a game of honesty, when you die, at least wait for someone to point their gun at you, and as an axis reenactor, you will die ALOT 💀

[@necessaryduk360]

Imagine stopping to think if you would of been shot in the middle of a battle.

[@Wetbread88]

Where do I get a kit like yours?

[@hegemiers9292]

Hey I would love to see your bandage pouch contents I love your videos so much

[@thomguy9586]

Where do you buy your gear?

[@undervine]

In 1700s reenactment our captain will go down the line and say: you, you and you fall dead when they volley next. Always wondered how they did it in more modern reenactment where formations are so disperse

[@aaronbest747]

You guys should shoot paint ball bullets with red paint at each other.

[@LanceChua9743]

That's paintball not realistic

[@aaronbest747]

@@LanceChua9743 the military uses paint rounds for training dude, go educate your self lol 🤣🤣🤣

[@W27Rich]

@@aaronbest747not back then buddy, go educate yourself.

[@W27Rich]

@@aaronbest747plus it would screw up their expensive uniforms in reenactment

[@P4rz1va1]

Sniper: did you see that!? I just killed 5 guys with one shot!

[@finnnew]

Very nice

[@kevinthomas4440]

We did a count of 1 to 4. Call ta number they fell. Civil War

[@kabosiscafeclub1127]

The most common question I get is if the fire is real. 😂

[@TheHampterchannel]

Imagine of the used rubber bullets that would hurt

[@vietnamesesmerf508]

Me a intellectual: A I R S O F T

[@W27Rich]

🤓

[@Ninjabeback56]

Facts

[@Nra6969]

Dude looks like an actual kid that fought in WW2 ...bro is a reincarnation of a badass

[@shanescatsandcannabisfarm2965]

I would assume they missed and keep fighting 😂😮😮

[@imaginoss2468]

I do a lot of that on airsoft scaring the gell out of everybody around me

[@Sir_Fancington]

As a civil war reenacter I can confirm this is true

[@kktay4135]

That one guy who won't admit he got shot: Gerry: *shoots john* John: *knows that he got hit* Gerry: you're hit, get down and play dead. John: No I'm not! I didn't get hit. I shot you first. Gerry: No I shot you! You didn't even shoot me. What are you talking about! John: Oh now you're angry. Why you wanna fight! Gerry: Oh yeah tough guy come here you little- And the rest is history.

[@famouswarrior327]

Look ! It's Erwin Wade from SPR

[@kingarthur5110]

I used to do Vietnam war reenactment in the UK and people were generally pretty good about taking 'hits'. The only difference with us and what was described here was that if you heard a shot but nobody saw where it came from, nobody went down. It made it slightly unrealistic because obviously snipers and concealed firing positions were a thing, especially in Vietnam, but if we did it the way this guy is describing everybody would drop at the sound of a single shot.

[@Plutonium_3]

Hey man, i love watching reenactments, do they do any of these in for say New York?

[@chadkyle9563]

Just use sim ammunition

[@VictorianTimeTraveler]

I was in a revolutionary war re-enactment of the Battle of Saratoga and one of the things we would do is call out a season and if you were born in That season you would die in the vale.

[@user-iq3kx9hg8b]

By the way where do you get your stuff like your rifle I'm really into history and world war II stuff but it needs to be in Britain please help

[@Ninjabeback56]

i think it's an actual gun with fake/blank bullets

[@TrueWraith]

I saw a re-enactment battle before but i wasn't WWII, it was the civil war and they stood there for a hot minute just shooting at each other and not one of em fell down.

[@LanceChua9743]

WTF do they know they are reenactment wrongly?

[@BilliamR]

3 guys are running in a field and one bullet goes off take a hit guys

[@_Ghost_Shadow_]

I think an easy way is to do it with like Airsoft weapons which can do it pretty accurately if you put in the sounds and such

[@codename_ghost1676]

Pov your doing a reenactment on D-Day and everyone has to take the hit because it's D-Day and spray and pray is a thing

[@Fck_the_atf]

I wonder, do any reenactments use paint rounds? I know they do that in the military where they use little paint bullets for training.

[@dueinuremom5082]

It seems like figuring out airsoft replicas would be totally worth it

[@anthonygodefroid7218]

Will you be at the upcoming Jefferson barracks reanactmets?

[@captaincactis2506]

Thank you for this clarification, but how do you prevent everyone from thinking that they got shot when only one guy got shot?

[@garrisonnichols807]

When me and my friends played paintball we would always shoot each other in the balls to make it even more realistic. 😊

[@wpatrickw2012]

If you were re-enacting with Airsoft guns you wouldn’t have to guess if you were hit.

[@ERIK-457]

For being able to more accurately take hits you would need to feel it so there would have to be used some airsoft gun or mount an airsoft gun inside the fake guns/guns with blank rounds, or maybe some really light and soft bullet in the guns that wouldn't damage at all but maybe just hurt a bit

[@klennalbertb.delapena322]

Now i wanna go participate in a WW2 reneactment with you!

[@certified_cact]

What if you guys are moving threw a field but a shot goes off and 2 people fall down at the same time? Do you guys play it off as 2 shooters?

[@DootguyDoot]

I know what you did in ‘99 and u may have thought u escaped but I’m on to u. U can’t outrun fate

[@deshers]

Yo Wade from Saving Private Ryan Fr?

[@That-goofy-shadow-demon]

Unless you carrying a radio and you can’t fall lol you just say hit and got to med station