I reckon to being an odd sod because I find some weird stuff interesting .. one such is when I came across a novel link between 'Bully Beef'' - 'Billy Cans' and the Victorian era French 'Canned Boeuf Bouilli'. - Sorry if you always knew this, but when Railroad workers and Gold Rush adventurers found themselves out in the wilderness - the clever ones who planned ahead imported BOILED MEATS IN CANS to feed the hungry who failed in their efforts at living off the land.
BOUILLI meaning 'Boiled' in Napoleonic French ..
Those emptied meat tins were soon fitted with a wire handle
and recycled as BILLY CANS.
Now .. I am assured that Bully beef/corned beef in cans helped end cannibalism in Fiji and the other Pacific nations - by providing a convenient alternative tasty meal - that is known in the islands as "BULLAMACOW" .. it being made from both bulls & cows. I reckon that it's also bloody fascinating that Bullamacow is nowadays very often CANNED MUTTON from New Zealand.
Kiwi 'BULLAMACOW'
While trying to research 'DownUnder' history about gold & guns - I've found regular references to the aussie gold miners having a "MAD MINUTE" every night when they'd come out of their holes, humpies and sly-grog tents to fire their weapons into the dusk as a warning - that their camp was well defended by armed and brave men.
Mid 19th Century Gold Rush Era was also a
Transition Time from FLINT to CAPLOCK to 'Cartridge'
Gold Rushes Starting California 1848, Australia 1851, New Zealand 1860's maybe?
Not being there at the time, I'd guessed that this may be at least partly fact based - as the many pioneers (including the gunslingers in the American Frontiers) all depended on their weapons for both food and protection - and would unload and freshen their gunpowder charges regularly, even daily, - as who knows how damp, greasy, compacted or depleted the gunpowder and Lead charge had become after a long hard day shoveling dirt and 'panning' in a icy riverbed or down a muddy hole.
A wise habit - if done deliberately and safely .. it would serve as TARGET PRACTICE - MAINTENANCE - & a warning to the neighbours that you were armed and ready - at least you might be - once you'd reloaded .. Best managed by having a second firearm to hand while servicing the first.
"The Australian diggings were certainly wild places. Note this comment from a Mrs Clancy, who describes a typical night on one of the fields in Victoria:
Imagine some hundreds of revolvers almost fired simultaneously. There was murder here, murder there, revolvers cracking, blunderbusses bombing, rifles going off, balls whistling, a man groaning with a broken leg, another shouting because he couldn’t find the way to his hole, and a third equally vociferous because he has tumbled into one.
Now, the reason so many diggers fired off their weapons late at night, was so they could reload with fresh powder. If the firearms were left loaded for several nights or so, the damp air was liable to seep into the chambers, etc and then when needed the revolver could have suffered a misfire."
Our modern anti-gunners seem to believe that every gun is a laser guided murder machine that automatically slaughters all it's innocent victims - causing evil, sickness and slavery to plague the world. - I predict that media images will be ever more fantastic when they advance to use AI to generate their dramatics & headline narratives.
Who needs the facts - all we want is NEWS infotainment
You know, I suspect that even spiders and cockroaches can take offence - and have issues such as 'identity crisis', ignorance and 'beliefs'.
Fact: CRIMINALS commit CRIME and need controling.
8 out of 10 cats prefer bollocks to reality ..
The Australian gold rush led to the promotion of the 19 man Burke & Wills Expedition of 1860 to explore the interior regions .. (They died)
Burke & Wills - The actual Colt Revolver:
But this next outfit claims that flintlocks were "wildly inaccurate" and that British Gun Maker TRANTER made revolvers in Melbourne ..
You NEED to be a critical thinker to survive all the bullshit and bollocks.
1852 - Man in COVID Mask Gives THUMBS-UP
.. ah nah/yeah, maybe he is having a drink
NZ Police Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming has resigned with immediate effect amid an investigation into his conduct.
ARE YOU A FIT AND PROPER PERSON?
FIREARMS LICENCES FOR NZ POLICE.
Marty K.
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