UNWIN & RODGERS NON*XXL Percussion Knife-Pistol.

 The word "incorrigible" might label my fetish .. in that, as a fried bread addict, I knew that I shouldn't - but I did it anyway.

- I bought another one ..

In case anyone is wondering .. as a younger man I used to smoke 30 per day unfiltered fags - drink beer .. and loved my high fat, high protein western diet, slurping dairy icecream by the bucket. I scored serious cardiovascular disease.

- Following my heart attack, - and a triple bipass in 1990 - and further, multiple stents (And later DYING on the angiography operating slab - to be ZAPPED twice before coming back with four big red burn marks on my chest after five minutes awol), - Dey fort I mite be mentlee ahfektid butt Im gud ay ..

I decided to curtail all three costly consumptions, booze, smokes, & fat-foods - swapping them for my interest in pop-pops.

- I had seen stories about these multitools called 'Gold Prospector's Knife-Pistols'

UNWIN & RODGERS .28" calibre Percussion Knife-Pistol.

These are hard to find 'down under' so it may just be excusible that I clicked on the 'BUY NOW' button after hurriedly researching more than a few previous U S & UK auction sales - I confirmed that hammer fall prices for similar examples were way above the local asking price for this fresh import ..

- This Unwin & Rodgers outfit, were cutlers in Sheffield England for around 80 years from 1820 - making the full range of edged tools including "Bowie Knives" exported to America.

They made this particular style of Knife-Pistol as a muzzleloader, and then as rimfires with most of their output going to America - until the business failed after the American Civil War ended.  Most of these are twin bladed with a 'cap-box' - while some had a compact bullet mould, a rammer, or a pair of tweezers, inserted into the back-end of their half-checkered buffalo horn scales.

- I read that the company mark, NON*XLL was purchased in 1860.  (This I*XL look-alike mark was officially registered by the firm in 1876 - this helps date this gun maybe to between 1840(ish and 1861.. when they introduced rimfire cartridge models. 

Hinged Butt Trap .. Some had extra bits (but not mine)

I did a story about these 'novelties' a few years back .. https://flicense.blogspot.com/2018/03/unwin-rodgers-knife-pistols.html

MY new antique Unwin & Rodgers is a RARE single bladed knife-gun with a powerful hammer spring .. in fact all the springs are very strong, resulting in me needing both hands to cock the gun. There is NO half cock notch and the fold-down trigger has to be levered into position but has a surprisingly light trigger pull.

- I never expected to find one of these to drool over. - A Single blade - Birmingham proof marks on the 3 5/8 inch octagonal "German Silver" Tapered Barrel, having a steel standing breech and inline nipple ( Sheffield is around 70 miles north of Birmingham). - Smoothbore, dating from around 1840-50?

 No Half-Cock notch ..

- Other parts of this gun also seem to be 'German Silver' - a type of white brass, 60% copper, 20% nickel, and 20% zinc.

"Never Bring a Knife To A Gunfight" ?

Nice .. You can either put a blade onto a pistol, or put a barrel onto a knife eh .. I doubt either design saw much actual social use but they do make for interesting multi-tools that might well save someones life. Imagine taking this out of your pocket to slice a piece of sausage or to cut a cigar .. impressive no?

This not a small "penknife" like the ones I have carried since I stopped filling nappies - this is a BIG tool with a 1/8" thick 3 5/8 inch straight-back blade - although a heavy lump, it would easily hide in any jacket or trouser pocket.

The Smallest one may be Legal Carry in UK

You might say that the knife-pistol is a big lump ..

But Compared to a Six-Shot PepperPot .. It still is a BIG Lump ..

The pistol part of this Knife Pistol is perhaps, technically a smoothbore 'Boxlock' Percussion Pistol - of around .28 inch caliber. If I was out in the GOLD Fields of California - Australia or New Zealand in the 19th century, - I likely would have loaded this smallbore mechanism with TWO lead balls over some 15-20 grains of blackpowder - and I would definately have ensured that it was always close at hand in a jacket pocket. - But my cautious nature would likely have meant that my trouser belt carried a holstered full sized revolver & a Bowie - and yet another small pistol in another pocket.

They were wild and uncertain times back then - not like today's advanced civilization .. Free from greed, violence, terrorism, murder or mayhem.

Link to interesting chatter & photos about these pistol-knives:

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/unwin-and-rodgers-pistol-knife-modern-greece-blockade-runner.216370/

and ..  https://www.littlegun.info/arme%20britannique/artisan%20u%20z/a%20unwin%20and%20rodgers%20gb.htm

Life is Good - nah, it's Bloody Brilliant - Keep taking the pills,

Marty K.

FIREARMS LICENCES FOR NZ POLICE.

This is a great wee video from Mr Cap & Ball on shooting small concealed carry blackpowder pistols ..

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=513b073ce7acbed3&rlz=1C1ONGR_enNZ933NZ933&sxsrf=AE3TifMl1nlkbZ4CwoUd83GTHMJvs2PPvQ:1767784832098&q=Miners+pistol&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNmdDXp_mRAxWvk1YBHZ8EPT8Q1QJ6BAhMEAE&biw=1366&bih=599&dpr=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:b5f46dd8,vid:FthFAPuoagI,st:0

The Government is Your Friend ..

Our 'media' is used by it's owners to bend your feelings and beliefs - in whatever direction supports their current schemes for control and wealth gain. - Their managers are skilled at psychological influencing their audience with emotional language.

When a dog is shot it can be reported in many ways .. "Armed gunman shoots childrens pet." or "Dangerous dog attack threat ended." or "City pavement fouling and disease risks improved by animal control."

Princess Diana in Angola 1997

When there were reports that Soviet military were using small plastic anti-personnel mines in Afghanistan 1979-89 - the western press hyped it up to such a degree, - to demonize the murderous Commies, that action was taken to BAN Cluster Bombs and "mine" munitions via the 'Ottawa Treaty'

PFM-1 and PFM-1S SOVIET Anti-Personnel Mines.

These small but deadly Russian mines were classified as inhumane ..

Deformation of the soft plastic skin of the mine forces the arming plunger to strike the detonator, detonating the mine.^[14] Because the body of the mine is a single cumulative pressure primer, it is extremely dangerous to handle the mine: The Imperial War Museum states that "A pressure in excess of 5kg would activate the mine".^[1] Holding it between the thumb and forefinger may be enough to make it explode.^[11] The charge is usually nonlethal, although sufficient to maim.^[11]

However .. When it was later disclosed that the Russians had made their mines BY REVERSE ENGINEERING & copying AMERICAN BLU-43/B & BLU-44B MINES - as deployed by U S forces during the VietNam War .. things went a little hushed.

The American mine itself is made out of soft plastic, and is hydraulically activated and contact/pressure detonated. The color of the plastic varied and could be olive drab, tan, brown, or camouflaged, and had no painted or molded markings. Each mine contained a small amount of liquid nitromethane/nitroethane explosive and was designed with a shape that would cause it to spiral down to the ground, removing the need for a parachute.

This sub-munition is the American BLU-43, also known as Dragon's Tooth, a High-Explosive-Blast (HE-Blast), aerially-dispersed, hydraulically activated, contact-pressure-fired, plastic-bodied, scatterable, Anti-Personnel (AP) landmine that is designed to wound by its HE-Blast effect.

- These were widely used over VietNam, Cambodia & Laos 1955-75 - and as Laos, Cambodia and America were NOT at war - they went largely unreported.

- Don't Panic about these U S and Russian killers .. as we British are not kindly innocents in a cruel world ..

During this era, I - as a young man, was employed in England as a plastics technician - quality controler setting-up Injection Moulding machines for production of plastic components.

The companies I worked for made any crap they could for a profit - including glass filled nylon components for the release mechanisms of BRITISH BL755 Cluster Bombs - as developed by Hunting Engineering UK with the Ministry of Defence. This contract was successfuly fulfilled - with 8,925,906 sub-munitions produced .. me being informed by my contact "Jack H" that our bomblet release mechanisms had worked great when tested in VietNam - having been transported there by air in RED CROSS MARKED AIRCRAFT that he had personally supervised the loading of.

These British Cluster Bombs, tested in VietNam, - were used in both the Falklands War, the Bosnian war, and in the Gulf War.

Jack was a war hero from WWII who got hit on the head when on patrol in woodland in Germany, and saw red .. single handedly eliminating seven enemy combatents.

Over a pint - Jack told me that he had moved-on to his next development project, which was anti-personnel mines shaped as small coloured childrens balls designed to explode when handled or kicked.

- BUT he explained - once you perfect the explosive devices and widely deploy them .. you move to the next stage of saturating the land mass by dropping millions of totally harmless identical inert balls to paralyse any enemy movement and life very cheaply.

Great eh,

IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY - WE MUST INSIST THAT ALL NZ POLICE EMPLOYEES QUALIFY FOR, & OBTAIN, AND MAINTAIN THE SAME STANDARD NZ FIREARMS LICENCE in exactly the same way that we citizens are required to.

Marty K.

COLD BLUEING Is Best Done HOT ..

Some like it HOT.

LOVELY Marilyn Monroe had a VERY high IQ of 168

- some 'dumb blond' huh

I just watched a commercial magazine video that proclaimed it would reveal the secrets of cold blueing - but it was just an advert for one brand beginning with 'B'.

No secrets then, - BUT me trying to be straight, I reckon .. anything in a bottle that you buy over-the-counter at your gun shop will have an expensive chemically active, secret formula that naturally includes WATER, - mixed acids, selenian dioxide plus COPPER SULPHATE. This coats the iron you are working with in a tiny amount of copper that then gets used in an oxygen swap process ( a REDOX REACTION) that takes oxygen from one goop and adds it to the other, harder goop, the IRON (in your steel) and makes the black'n'blue colour

 IRON OXIDE Fe2+

So, That is clear then .. Better than nothing ..

Now - here's the interesting bit .. Whenever they want to take your money away - they will LIE to you.

- So they call it "COLD" blue to implant the thought that this will be easier & better than using the old fashioned hot methods that involve slow boiling and steaming and carding and polishing and oiling ..

The truth is that their magic blueing stuff will always work much better on HOT steel.. so warm it up first before wiping the goop on and you'll be pleased. Use boiling water or a hair dryer, whatever.

The details will change depending on the bottled choice of chemicals - the instructions, and the variable nature of your steels - but with any luck you'll get a dark coated surface that looks good and will better resist rust when you oil and wax it.

I'm reading good reviews of Brownells OXPHO-BLUE - that can be applied cold using damp cottonwool in multiple applications - with boiling in water in between coats .. to give a decent build-up that looks like proper bluing .. only snag seems to be that it is NOT available here in NZ, and it costs plenty to import.

sighs,

Never mind eh

Are YOU 'Fit and Proper' ..?

IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY - WE MUST INSIST THAT ALL NZ POLICE EMPLOYEES QUALIFY FOR, & OBTAIN, AND MAINTAIN THE SAME STANDARD NZ FIREARMS LICENCE in exactly the same way that we citizens are required to.

Marty K.

"What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander" 

LAZY DOG Kinetic Projectiles:

Link to .."THE PLAN TO KILL HUMANITY"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBIt8J_Vs1Y

When I was a smartassed lad - back in the '60's - We used to have the CND Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament .. I went on protest rallies - nobody seems much interested now.

Bullets are kinetic projectiles fired from guns by expanding propellant gases .. but you can also "fire" bullets from slingshots or crossbows - air rifles and 'magnetic rail guns'. These projectiles all get their ENERGY from the speed they are moving.

 Towards the end of WWII military scientists developed non-explosive ordnance that could be dumped out of high flying aircraft to freefall, accelerating to deadly velocity.

LAZY DOG Projectiles aka 'Yellow Dog' and 'Red Dot'.

These were dropped onto massed enemy combatents from a great hight in the Korean War and were extensively deployed in VietNam and over Cambodia. These could be packed 10,000 to 17,000 at a time into Mk44 cluster bomb containers - but were also dumped out of helicopters by the bucket-load or just shovelled out, with devastating effect onto unprotected people moving through the jungles below. 

About the size of a .50" Cal Bullet ..

When released from high altitudes over 10,000 feet - they can silently reach velocities of 700 feet per second that is 480 miles per hour.

Kinetic weapons are the oldest and most common ranged weapons used in human history, with the projectiles varying from blunt projectiles such as rocks and round shots, pointed missiles such as arrows, bolts, darts, and javelins, to modern tapered high-velocity impactors such as bullets, flechettes, and penetrators. Typical kinetic weapons accelerate their projectiles mechanically by muscle power, mechanical advantage devices, elastic energy or pneumatics or chemical explosives.

When dropped in numbers of more than 17,000 at a time these yield 6 hits per square yard being WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION deployed against populations

Governments are your friend.          ??

IN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC SAFETY - WE MUST INSIST THAT ALL NZ POLICE EMPLOYEES QUALIFY FOR, & OBTAIN AND MAINTAIN THE STANDARD NZ FIREARMS LICENCE

Marty K.

CONTROL of Gun Owners:

POWER WITHOUT PRINCIPLES:

Private gun ownership is at risk of being further restricted and BANNED

"We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately,"   

attributed to Benjamin Franklin 

Government policies are influenced by vocal minorities and lobbiests.

Minority Groups win or lose elections for politicians.

Politicians need to retain their INCOME and POWER.

Here in New Zealand there are thousands of deer stalkers, target shooters, CAS Westerners, trap shooters, Pest controlers, reloaders, pig hunters, air gunners, antique armers, etc - some of whom join a local club .. some don't. There are 100's of clubs, groups & individuals that REFUSE to join and pay membership of any unifying group.

A wide range of DIFFERENT shooting interests & priorities that have one thing in common

- What they have in common is that they can't agree about ANYTHING

New Zealand Shooting needs A SINGLE UNIFIED, funded, Legally Represented NEGOTIATING BODY. (something like the American NRA) .. Please disagree with me .. ..

It should not be 'LEFT' versus 'RIGHT' .. single shot versus semi-automatic - but the Weak against the POWERFUL.

A name to never forget .. mosque massacre, foul killer Brenton TARRANT

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Picture this .. It is about 2.00 AM in the dark night and I am stopped at a red light in London, and this E-Type Jaguar pulls-up beside me. 

The lights go green and we both floor the pedal .. BUT - he lays two black streaks on the tarseal and his tail-lights recede up the road, Beautiful ..

He thrashed me .. but I only paid 100 quid for my old heap, and I got 30 for it from the scrap dealer a year later. Cheap fun. (His cost easily 2,000 pounds)

- We both were members of the AA.

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Well, there's Power and the powerless.

I know a bloke, a mate, a skilled and independent working man - who has some beautiful quality antique guns - He used to collect Machine Guns but has passed them on - because the punitive police policies have taken away all pleasure from owning guns that need a relationship with "The Authorities".

He, nor I, is no more likely to shoot anyone than we would be to beat-up someone in a drug fuelled rage .. but WE are controlled, restricted and regulated while the nutters wander on the streets where the Police Stations used to be. - It isn't about crime but it is about POWER and Control.

- Meanwhile 130x NZ sworn police officers are being investigated for fraudulently logging 31 thousand faked alcohol breath tests ..

UNITED WE STAND - DIVIDED WE FALL.

Our world is RIGHT NOW undergoing a massive tectonic economic shift - and law abiding gun owners are being sucked into a stinking political bog.

America is loosing it's DOLLAR STRENGTH and has already lost it's MILITARY dominance - unless it goes NUCLEAR, and then god will need to help us all.

U S is right now planning to TRIPLE the number of nuclear warheads on it's old missiles ..

- Europe including ENGLAND has already collapsed economically into abject economic, food & energy poverty but is declaring WAR against The Russian Federation. They ARE crazy.

New Zealand needs to re-arm our population to survive, AND we need to move as close as possible to CHINA who are the real power in the Pacific - our biggest trading partner. Start teaching standard Mandarin Chinese in school so that at least we can say ni hao

Do you still think Chinese cars, motorbikes and guns are cheap copies? - Watch and enjoy from Chongqin - a city of 35 Million celebrating New Year ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIhdI2MFWvU

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More Fakes: Fédération Internationale de Football Association's (FIFA) Gianni Infantino awarded Donald Trump their inaugeral fake 'Peace Prize' 

THIS surely is a sick joke?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/581069/what-is-the-fifa-peace-prize-and-why-did-donald-trump-win

Another SICK local JOKE:

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Defence Minister Judith Collins have announced a $15 million contribution from NZ taxes to a NATO and United States initiative to supply Ukraine with weapons and equipment. 

4 Dec 2025 https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/nz-announces-15m-support-defence-ukraine#:~:text=Foreign%20Minister%20Winston%20Peters%20and,Ukraine%20with%20weapons%20and%20equipment.

Is that war not lost already?

Discuss: Do the owners of the western world actually WANT to reduce it's population AND intend to do it with World War III? - Do 'They' actually believe that they will be fine inside their secure shelters? - while all the disarmed and vulnerable families of the land perish? - Is that WHY they want an unarmed population?

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Can I bring to your attention this medical study into the wounding effects of a Gamo air rifle ..(I've just bought one)

There is no problem with qualified scientists investigating medical issues BUT when the authors refer to air rifles as FIREARMS & "WEAPONS" they reveal both their political position for social control as GUN BANNERS - and their ignorance and bias about guns and shooting.

 https://nzmj.org.nz/media/pages/journal/vol-137-no-1591/children-s-toys-no-longer-a-porcine-model-study-of-the-lethality-of-modern-air-rifles/dcf42157e3-1709520345/6378.pdf

These air rifles do seem to be useful hunting tools for small game and pest control ..

Marty K.

NEW ZEALAND'S POLICE HAVE THOUSANDS OF 'HIGH CAPACITY' MSSA RIFLES, and THOUSANDS OF GLOCK PISTOLS - PLUS SUB-MACHINE GUNS AND GRENADE LAUNCHERS .. BUT NO FIREARMS LICENCES.

Seven NZ Police Commissioners have been removed. - One Executive Director of the FIREARMS SAFETY AGENCY , the firearms register has "retired". - One President of NZ Police Association has "stood down" on long service leave ..

Teach your family members to shoot .. Send your girls to SELF DEFENCE Classes

FIREARMS SAFETY AGENCY Director RESIGNS:

So that's SEVEN NZ Police COMMISSIONERS,

ONE Police ASSOCIATION President CAHILL "stood down on Long Service Leave,

& ONE Firearms Safety Authority executive director Angela Brazier "Retiring"

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/583833/firearms-safety-authority-executive-director-angela-brazier-retires-following-mcskimming-report

They are mounting-up like solids under battery hen cages ..

It's amazing what you find when the branches get shaken and somebody takes a look

FIREARMS LICENCES ARE NEEDED TO 

PROVE ARMED NZ POLICE ARE FIT & PROPER.

Marty K.

REVENGEFUL MUZZLELOADER from 1873 - Utu:

READ THE BELOW TALE OF EARLY NEW ZEALAND & BE HAPPY.

What a fascinating story ..

I recently came across this site:

https://www.thebroadarrow.info/ 

Webley No. 2 British Bull Dog Revolver, .450CF

- This COLLECTION section has great photos and information ..

HERE iS THE BLOOD-THIRSTY STORY TO ENJOY ..

https://www.thebroadarrow.info/An-Awful-Gun-A-New-Zealand-Yarn

Life is good eh, 

- may 2026 be less CORRUPT, less MURDEROUS, more democratic and better administered than the last several years .. but I don't think so

'Leaders' need to be something more than CRIMINALS IN SUITES.

Are You Fit and Proper? Are NZ Police 'FIT AND PROPER PERSONS'?

In the interest of Public Safety

FIREARMS LICENCES FOR NZ POLICE.

Marty K.