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minus-squareTar_AlcaranlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 months agoI do my Napoleonic reenactment, and we also carry 60, but the box is a fair bit bigger. That might be just a scaling issue (not a lot of short female soldiers back then)
minus-squareSSTF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 months agoI think if you’re carrying 60 rounds compared to the U.S. Civil War’s 40, naturally your boxes will be bigger. I think the drawing’s scale is about right.
minus-squareTar_AlcaranlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoTrue about the number, I meant a scaling issue in that I’m smaller, so the box will look relatively bigger on me.
I do my Napoleonic reenactment, and we also carry 60, but the box is a fair bit bigger. That might be just a scaling issue (not a lot of short female soldiers back then)
I think if you’re carrying 60 rounds compared to the U.S. Civil War’s 40, naturally your boxes will be bigger.
I think the drawing’s scale is about right.
True about the number, I meant a scaling issue in that I’m smaller, so the box will look relatively bigger on me.