Effectively yeah, we wear the uniforms. The team I'm with actually got permission from Louisiana state to exhume the corpses of two of the original unit members to find out what the french zuave uniform they wore was constructed out of/with/like .. So there's a good degree of historical accuracy but instead of playing cops and robbers in the woods we actually do some real shooting <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

At nationals we get something like 15,000 competitors (3 phases of 5000 each) shooting musket. Those sounds you hear in the movies of the confederate/union lines firing at each other are actually recorded at our range during nationals.