It sure can be tough on re-enactors! I was almost trampled by a run-away horse, cut my leg while chopping wood for the fire, burned my hand taking a hot Dutch oven off the fire, got shot in the foot by a fellow re-enactor who wasn't sure if he just got a "flash-in-the-pan" during a volley so he re-primed and pulled the trigger, and got another 6" cut along the ribs from a bayonet that slipped off a Brit's musket during a hand-to-hand sequence while we were filming "The American Revolution".
One of guys lost his two front teeth from an over zealous Highlander who used his basket-hilt claymore on his face; another guy got some nasty burns and a nastier bruise on his face when the idiot next to him fired a quadruple load (he didn't realize his touch-hole was clogged) and his lock blew off his musket when it finally went off.
Lots more stories like that!
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