Kiwi Coffee: Maori-War Museum Assets: Warriors.

Anyone else around here dumb enough like me to try home roasting GREEN COFFEE BEANS ? - I used my cast iron skillet and I think I had it  too hot, as the PNG beans went straight from green to burnt on the bottom while still raw on top before I got the idea of shaking & stirring them. - "First Crack" my ass. Smokey?

- Forget Light, Medium, & Dark Roast 

.. try BURNT-GREEN-SMOKED.. QUITE GOOD actually. I'll try again in the Air Fryer.

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SAFETY ALERT: Rule No.1. Treat every firearm as loaded until YOU check it is safe.

The longer you look at something - the clearer the situation may become. - When researching stuff - scatterings of information can arrive that add greatly to the story .. (I was looking for authentic leather holster designs).

"Hemi Te Waka, aka Taranaki Jim, or Big Jim, was of both Te Atiawa and Pakeha descent. Te Waka had been a Kingite warrior in 1860 and by 1864 he was a scout for the 57th Regiment. It was he who, in April that year, discovered the decapitated corpses of Captain Lloyd and his men ambushed at Te Ahuahu, precipitating the Paimarire War and a further eight years of bloodshed."

This is the actual engraved antique revolver ..

Deane & Adams 54 Gauge Percussion Revolver.

These museum  people know little about guns. They describe this revolver as having a "Wedge Frame" .. show me the wedge. **WRONG: This is indeed a 'wedge framed' revolver. The small wedge is not visible in this photo. Oops.

"From 1865 the revolver accompanied Te Waka on active service until he fell in a Tuhoe ambush in May 1869. There in Te Urewera he was buried, the pistol and other effects being removed from his body. The revolver, pistol-belt and holster were later obtained by the NZ Veterans Association, and in 1919 they were donated to the New Plymouth Museum—now Puke Ariki & District Libraries. On the inside flap of the holster is the barely legible “HEMI TE WAKA” written in Indian ink."

Seventy-one years after Te Waka was gunned down, a young firearms enthusiast in New Plymouth was handling the weapon, fumbled, and was shot through the head. He earned the dubious distinction of being the last casualty of the New Zealand Wars - as the charge, wad and bullet—rammed home by Hemi Te Waka himself all those years ago—had never been unloaded.

Years back, in May 2017 I found a different side to this story in a book ..

https://flicense.blogspot.com/2017/05/deane-adams-percussion-revolver-nz.html

- NZ Police Arms & Ballistics Officer G G Kelly writes in Chapter 12 of his book 'THE GUN IN THE CASE'  about a Deane & Adams Revolver taken from a museum exhibit seventy-five years after the Maori Wars in Taranaki - The revolver had sat in storage for decades with two chambers loaded .. until a sixteen year old boy experimating with mixed percussion caps in an attic, after nicking the gun, set-off the old powder & the heavily oxidized lead bullet with unintended but deadly impact into his own temple. - Two loaded chambers had remained "live" in the cylinder perhaps for as long as 75 years.

THIS HAS TO BE THE SAME REVOLVER. -Linked here:

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/loaded-provenance/

It seems that this curious teenage bright lad (unnamed) used to hang about and help at this museum and found the revolver in storage out the back - deciding that the old gun would be more interesting when placed in his own pocket.

His body was found at home in the attic space with a scattering of mixed percussion caps and a hole in his head.

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'Bitter and bloody struggles.' in New Zealand history ..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taranaki_Jim

https://collection.pukeariki.com/objects/584/revolver-five-chambered

https://collection.pukeariki.com/objects/7874/holster-revolver

Detailed bush warfare stories -drying human heads, - inc. the death of Hemi Te Waka ..

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/corps-of-guides/

Are You Fit and Proper?

Are NZ Police 'FIT AND PROPER PERSONS'?

yeah naah

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Marty K.

'Throat' Size Can Stuff Your Aim:

Trump says his Israeli sponsor widow, Miriam Adelson is worth 60 Billion bucks .. but Bloomberg reckons it's only 40 Billion - no matter, as Donnie will make-up the difference asap.

Cash from Drug Re-Hab, Newspapers, Las Vegas Casinos and 

Dallas Basketball Hits The Spot in Haifa and Republican HQ

 Trump's "Grab em by the pussie"-vagina throat

Marla Maples was quoted in a 1990 page one headline as bragging to friends that Trump delivered “the best sex I’ve ever had.”

When you buy a firearm - you want a tool that delivers, - that will be both powerful and accurate. Your hopes depend on the precision of the manufacture - The Quality Control. 

Modern stuff should be good as it is made from modern materials on CNC Machinery, having been designed by qualified experts - whereas the guns made 175 years ago were less precisely forged and were dependent on hand finishing to be able to work .. 

Like RONSEAL woodstain - we might expect the new product "to do exactly what it says on the tin" - however, there may be room for improvement.

Old stuff may have looser fitting bits and wear - while modern gun might be sized for ease of manufacture or with allowances to be "run in".

When the cylinder chamber throats were measured on this Ruger .45 Colt revolver (above) - they were found to be around 2 Thousands of an inch tighter than the barrel bore ..

All five chamber throats of this Beaumont-Adams antique were found to be 5 Thou under the bore size that measured at .340 inch. - but the original ammo was designed to use ball fitted with sealing wads of waxed cork, felt or leather.

Obturated, Obturating. to stop up; close, to close (a hole or cavity) so as to prevent a flow of gas through it, especially the escape of explosive gas from a gun tube during firing.

Ideally, the projectile should be the same size as the bore or maybe a thou. larger when it enters the Forcing Cone of the barrel. - If the chamber throats are undersize - there goes a piece of your accuracy. - The gas pressure accelerating the bullet forward will obturate its metal and help force it into the rifling grooves - but the closer to size it starts at - the more certain it is to fit and spin-up as it drives up the barrel. 5 Thou is a lot for even soft lead to grow .. while 2 thou is a challenge to a copper jacketed .45 bullet to take-up. Undersized whackers will wobble every time when they exit at the muzzle.

- It ain't rocket science. If you suspect or measure your chamber sizes to be significantly smaller than the rifled bore size .. the fix will be to get the chambers reamed by a decent machinist gunsmith or perhaps you yourself may be able to fix some fine emery paper to a dowel or metal rod - superglue works fine - and polish out a few thou gently while checking frequently for the chambers to match the bore size or to be maybe one thou larger ..

Watch your groups shrink on target

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yeah naah

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Marty K.

FACTS & BELIEFS: Narrative & Bullshit:

SAFETY ALERT: Be aware that modern Hi-Spec vehicles are equiped with computer controlled STEERING ASSIST (lane change)  - BRAKE CONTROL - and Multiple EXPLOSIVE-CHARGE ACTIVATED  'AirBags'.

Intelligence Agencies have the ABILITY TO HACK INTO THESE MASS PRODUCED ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS and to remotely control your robot's steering, acceleration, de-activate airbags, and prevent braking with 'traction control' via radio signals. This may be of particular interest for those with IQ above room temp if you expect to drive a Mercedes car in Egypt. .. Cheaper & more deniable than using a Hellfire missile from a US Based drone.

- If you experience loss of control when driving - knock the drive select lever into neutral and apply the handbrake fully. And of-course, - if it only has an electronic parking brake, feel free to scream loudly.

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A good starting point is to assume that whatever they accuse the "enemy" of is exactly what they are trying to do to the brown skinned people who own the resource.

I have always known how Marco Polo introduced spaghetti and the other pastas into Italy on return from his travels to China in 1295 - I think I was taught that at school.

This story was a total bullshit marketing campaign by North American pasta makers largely reported in the Macaroni Journal in the 1920s - aiming to promote their products. This same fiction was repeated in a 1938 movie about Marco Polo.

The FACTS are that pasta was likely brought to Italy long before, by Arab traders, who introduced dried pasta to Sicily as early as the 9th century. Pasta is cereal dough preserved by drying in the sun.

So much of what we are told is bullshit - that our heads don't generally worry about it anymore. 

The basic rule of advertising is to sell the "sizzle"- not the steak. - Ignore the real dead animal.

I make a decent veggie "Spag-Bog" using diced mushrooms to replace the minced meat and I hide 

some brocolliand even chopped cabbage in my herbed & spiced rich tomato sauce without spoiling the taste.

Have you noticed that spaghetti was eaten maybe for around 700 years BEFORE tomatoes arrived fromthe New World Americas - what did they sauce it with? - Well anything you got .. Olive oil, meats and vegetables, eggs, herbs and spices, cheeses and juices. If you are hungry enough - as it comes hot from the pot.

"Never give a sucker an even break" is a classic American quote from W.C. Fields - about why be honest when dealing for profit - except his true name was William Claude Dukenfield.

I remember my mum (and school dinners) feeding us Semolina Pudding with rose-hip syrup spooned on top, when I was in short pants .. this is milky boiled, coarse ground Durum Wheat from the same flour that spaghetti is made with.

- I'd opine that both semolina and polenta (coarse corn flour) might prove useful as a dry inert filler for light target loads. - While it is edible and non-fouling, it could prove useful fodder when the hunting is bad, along with bore butter and bullet lubes made from tallow, beeswax and olive oil. Could be yummy eh.

Are You Fit and Proper?

Are NZ Police 'FIT AND PROPER PERSONS'?

naah

FIREARMS LICENCES FOR NZ POLICE.

Marty K.

Some Truly Old Guns Survive: Some were "Blued" with RED Lead.

Would you believe that the Whitehouse vultures circling Gaza - plan to officially send 200 US uniforms in as "peacemakers" to pick-over the corpses before driving the redevelopment bulldozers, with Tony Blair's Institute For Global Change?

- Converting the killing fields into condos and hotels ..

I was beginning to think that I had learned a bit - but there are some folk who are way more educated ..  

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18049

These Guys know their stuff .. It takes time to read this correspondence and to enjoy the superb photographs of 'priceless' & unique 500+ y.o. early guns.

The earliest ever examples of GUN SIGHTS were developed when the FLAME SHIELDS were formed behind touch-holes and found to be obstructing the aiming .. so an open groove was then cut for sighting ..

These linked pages are truly 'Eye-Opening' .. Did you know that many of these ancient field pieces and handgonnes would have been painted BRIGHT RED with RED LEAD MINIUM paint to enhance their looks and to preserve their wrought iron from corrosion?

Red Lead, lead tetroxide - Pb3O4 - is made by long heating of white lead cabonate - and then mixed with Linseed Oil as a binder, into a paint that bonds to the surface of iron.

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No cigar Donnie but you'll get the Gaza sea-front and coastal mining rights ..

Marty K.

How BIG is Yours?

 Is something big about to start?

It's not the size that counts .. It's what you do with it ..

practice, practice - Train & practice.

Stick with Glocks if you fancy ..

The important aspect of size is that you fit and are comfortable using your firearm.

That small and easily carried gun may be close to impossible to use ..

These come in .22" L.R and in 22 MAGNUM for US$300.

No doubt about it - your choice of self defense pistol is very personal - but you do need to try as many as you can and fire them on range before spending-up BIG. - Your neighbor's Desert Eagle might be great for him .. but if you are a small framed female with tiny hands and arthritus don't even think about it.

An engraved S&W 'Detectives Special' revolver in 357 Magnum is a good thing for slipping into a pants pocket and it's as pretty as they come .. but it is one pig of a thing to shoot and will hurt your hands with every shot.

You Shouldn't Do That To A Friend ..

We need to get a grip on these things and ideally, the trigger reach should be such that the finger placement is "natural" for hurried use.

There is one for you out there .. all you gotta do is find it. - A serious long term gun must be enjoyable to shoot.

There's nothing much new around - We've been doing this stuff for generations .. Making guns in a range of sizes that help our women and small people PROTECT THEMSELVES from bullies, rapists and thieves

- The oldest piece there above might be around, say 250 years old .. That's TEN GENERATIONS of sensible folk trying to balance convenience of carry, against ease of use - against strength of blow.

And the answer is .. ..?

For me a few years back it was a Glock 17x - then a four inch Ruger SP101 in 327 Magnum lit-up my face with a huge smile. - A heavy revolver in a moderate caliber is a civilized thing.

- Well if I were a younger Marty I'd be buying a Ruger-Marlin Thirty-Thirty and heading for the hills to harvest healthy natural food.

- The meat of even the lowly wild rabbit pest is preferable to fatty concoctions made from processed-adulterated wheat - synthetic grease margarine - with "cheese" made from powdered milk, caseinates, emulsifying phosphates, citrates and salts - that they market packaged in plastic & cardboard as 'pizza'.

The ingredients found in the sausage slice include processed dead animal, fat, bacteria, including Lactobacillus species and Leuconostoc species to break down sugars & produce lactic acid,  - plus salt, spices, sugar and nitrite. Nitrite is commonly added to fermented sausages to speed up the curing of meat and also impart colour while slowing the growth of the Clostridium botulinum bacteria which causes botulism.

Do people actually EAT that stuff?

Are You Fit and Proper?

Are NZ Police 'FIT AND PROPER PERSONS'?

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Marty K.