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Two Great Vous This Weekend – Nov 18-20, 2011

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Hey folks –

Looks like there are two great events this weekend. Ranger Springs Skinners are having their annual Fall rendezvous near Decatur, TX – and the lovely Three Jugs is hosting a “beginner’s Rendezvous” at Tanglewood Forest up near Corsicana.

The Ranger Springs event will have some great prizes up for grabs, including a custom portmanteau and camp kitchen box!

The Tanglewood Forest event features a pot luck dinner, a modern camp with running water and electricity available. Since this is a rendezvous for beginners to learn more about the hobby, period dress is not required, but encouraged for the old hands. Get some of those friends who have been on the fence about buckskinning out and get them to this event.

The weather is great!

Get outside and get involved with your local clubs!

More details – including fliers – are available on the events page!

TFT Rendezvous XV – This weekend!

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Grey Wolf and the Texas Free Trappers will be hosting a rendezvous this weekend (Nov 12-14) at their new site near Shiner, TX.

As anyone who has attended one of Joe’s events can attest, they are shooting intensive – a great event to attend if you would like to do a lot of shooting.

For more details, see the events page!

Update on the Burn Ban for this weekend’s TAB

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From – Heather Hill, Booshway:

Mickey Dave and Judy worked really hard and kind of worked a miracle for us and got an exception to the fire ban. The exception is for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday only. If you go in on Thursday, I am sorry you will have to use your Coleman stove. Because of the ban we will give everyone a choice to use a fire or to use a coleman stove. The booshway (me), the segundo (Kelle), the dog (and dawg) soldiers, and the Board will be watching camps. If you leave your fire unattended someone will put it out. Sorry. That is the way it is. We are subjected to be visited, inspected, whichever you prefer so we need to make sure we have a 2 foot cleared area around our fire pits and need to make sure our fire pits are at least 8 inches deep was it. The same people listed above will be checking on that. There will be a fire extinguisher at the bulletin board and on the firing line. So if someone needs it they are there.

Sounds like it will be shinin’ times!

April 2nd-Lake Jackson, TX

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The Lake Jackson Historical Association, in Lake Jackson, Texas, is planning a grand reopening for the Abner Jackson Plantation site on April 2nd, 2011 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. They are looking for re-enactors to come and set up for the day. Just basically a blanket display with tools and equipment of the time. Would be a good recruiting tool and a chance to handout flyers for upcoming events.

Please contact the director at

Jennifer Caulkins
director@lakejacksonmuseum.org
Lake Jackson Historical Association
249 Circle Way
PO Box 242
Lake Jackson, TX 77566
979-297-1570

– Many Rifles

Rendezvous Next Weekend – Fritztown Free Trappers

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Just a reminder that the Fritztown Free Trapper’s Spring Rendezvous is next weekend!!!

It’s a Pilgrim’s Rondy so invite your family and friends to come out – either for the weekend or just Saturday to see what our rendezvous’ are all about!

The weather should be perfect so there’s no excuses for not showing up. SWRR is up near Oklahoma so there’s no point spending gas money on SWRR….just head to La Vernia and play with the Fritztown Free Trappers!

For more details, see the Events page.

See ya there!

Kathy “Hummingbird” Boyd

Fritztown Free Trappers March Rendezvous 2011

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Hello Fellow Buckskinners,

The holidays are over and it’s time to start thinking about rendezvous! I know….I know…..that’s not until March….but March will be here before you know it and I wanted to give everyone a “head’s up” about what is in store for this event.

Kevin and Erma Kincaid will be the Booshways for the March 11-12-13 Fritztown Free Trappers Rendezvous. I find this very fitting because our March event is going to be a “Pilgrim’s Rendezvous”. Some of you may remember that Steve and I invited them to the last “Pilgrim’s Rendezvous” in Fredericksburg…….they came……they saw……they played……AND THEY WERE HOOKED…..all we did was reel them in!!!

They will be sending out the official flyer/letter in Febraury with all the details, but I wanted to let everyone know NOW because now is the time to invite all your friends who have always been wondering why grown men and women would want to spend a weekend playing dress-up and sleeping in tents that take more than 5 minutes to pop up!!!

Your friends can set up their modern day tent next to yours, come out in their t-shirts and shorts, and experience all the fun that we have at rendezvous.

This is also a great opportunity to sell off those clothes that are still in great shape, but too tight……that extra cast iron cookware that you no longer use……..knives……etc.

Steve has a couple of guys through work that are planning on attending and his brother is thinking about it. Blizzard has invited his kids/grandkids and I think his wife might actually come this time. So start thinking about who you want to bring and forward this email to them to give them some notice about this rendezvous.

REMEMBER……..MARCH 11-12-13th……

Pilgrim’s Rendezvous in La Vernia, Texas.

Full details to follow in February!

See ya’ll in March!

– Kathy “Hummingbird” Boyd