tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40540640018126366682024-03-18T16:39:35.766-07:00on target shooter nzGUN-TALK: Chatting about firearms use, history and issues.Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.comBlogger1635125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-89846861304902318972024-03-18T16:36:00.000-07:002024-03-18T16:36:39.565-07:00NZ has Lead Deposits - Sulfur - Saltpeter & Steel for Guns too ..<p>"PLUMBAGO" is an old word for the lead ores like GALENA. - Believe it or not, there is lead naturally in the earth of New Zealand and it was successfully mined in past times - particularly at the <b><i>TUI Mine</i></b> in Te Aroha .. an interesting NZ geological report linked below: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoQ_NaZdupx52XZhsYy19FSR47m4QFfcGULFPx-yeYfyMBZH7LUq8rAhwA9zpcJUP0RPzh4W28wtxL_4CCW6Qmm-whb3Dgl2bJkxxlNhg4fwIvXKbf4EfJBJXCLLmgh-Q8Xbuw8B9EO9CoJnDtuHmPFN9siMMGrfH5Nf5X2tEjUiKMwtMoPnTLIytAiQ/s372/tui%20mine.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="135" data-original-width="372" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoQ_NaZdupx52XZhsYy19FSR47m4QFfcGULFPx-yeYfyMBZH7LUq8rAhwA9zpcJUP0RPzh4W28wtxL_4CCW6Qmm-whb3Dgl2bJkxxlNhg4fwIvXKbf4EfJBJXCLLmgh-Q8Xbuw8B9EO9CoJnDtuHmPFN9siMMGrfH5Nf5X2tEjUiKMwtMoPnTLIytAiQ/w400-h145/tui%20mine.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>TUI Mine Entrance</b> ..</div></b><p><a href="https://www.nzpam.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/doing-business/mineral-potential/zinc.pdf" style="background-color: #eeeeee;">https://www.nzpam.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/doing-business/mineral-potential/zinc.pdf</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQU79EPQVxEQZR_RWL9JF4cnali7TUU7cjn4A1oEmP6qqC8DD1HRvRc8fD3GWQoSzXabj4zMvePRRVODp-OeyLvrlNP9u-MRhBN516wyFKcIrVL_kdux7PItEw63y6ohGQjUOBCeq3ojPHrfpa40Wnp_YYP3tJmQQsjPn0EnsiK3KSRgKJ_dT482mN2w/s300/galena%20crystals.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQU79EPQVxEQZR_RWL9JF4cnali7TUU7cjn4A1oEmP6qqC8DD1HRvRc8fD3GWQoSzXabj4zMvePRRVODp-OeyLvrlNP9u-MRhBN516wyFKcIrVL_kdux7PItEw63y6ohGQjUOBCeq3ojPHrfpa40Wnp_YYP3tJmQQsjPn0EnsiK3KSRgKJ_dT482mN2w/s1600/galena%20crystals.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Galena is a heavy Lead-Sulfide Ore</b></div></b><p></p><p><i>"Plumbago" </i>is also the name for blue flowered plants that are said to grow in lead containing soils .. and a species of butterly.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyF0NcicX8fwTvswvu_SIu5I2lgTmF4C1vhyphenhyphenAHxAjjHHvUzEc8zsBSQ3IQn9zBCIGdfYSdFe_H49KjxOzc1ViiMox7jgU4Ks45ndOPsAC7MWLfxHsydfZAyA0Vmx5qf7DMggzwyltS1239W_tbFiTfKxwV2WwAFMulMPSSQyw6TK5fmuHIaT2_p2owFw/s272/272px-White_Island_2013.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="272" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyF0NcicX8fwTvswvu_SIu5I2lgTmF4C1vhyphenhyphenAHxAjjHHvUzEc8zsBSQ3IQn9zBCIGdfYSdFe_H49KjxOzc1ViiMox7jgU4Ks45ndOPsAC7MWLfxHsydfZAyA0Vmx5qf7DMggzwyltS1239W_tbFiTfKxwV2WwAFMulMPSSQyw6TK5fmuHIaT2_p2owFw/w640-h452/272px-White_Island_2013.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>White Island (<i>Whakaari</i>) Bay of Plenty</b></div></b><p><b>SULFUR </b>.. some 11,000 tonnes of sulphur were mined historically on White Island (Whakaari) - an active volcano that has taken lives several times, most recently in 2019.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxBCbKZjkiKJEOfq6HRFtgj0sSPwN9Bc4_oB-FGnAF5XumLoH67iA50Bh0YbS3TKopFF1psuAGOj795quEGa1tj50LJRPvSLWOce8-m_KXAS-4j3qdqrxpZF3n5iOOjd8OmfbqFgbfGYt-oPZCyzckLTJZwmTa_P178BEUVSQNek0yxx2W2Y3nXLsDvA/s1280/sn-sulpherrev.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxBCbKZjkiKJEOfq6HRFtgj0sSPwN9Bc4_oB-FGnAF5XumLoH67iA50Bh0YbS3TKopFF1psuAGOj795quEGa1tj50LJRPvSLWOce8-m_KXAS-4j3qdqrxpZF3n5iOOjd8OmfbqFgbfGYt-oPZCyzckLTJZwmTa_P178BEUVSQNek0yxx2W2Y3nXLsDvA/s320/sn-sulpherrev.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Brimstone - SULFUR found at Hot Springs & Volcanic Vents.</b></div></b><p><b><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: medium;">Lead</span></b>, Zinc, and Silver, GOLD & Copper tend to be found together - and like Sulfur, are generally <i>Volcanogenic </i>- and NZ has a fair amount of volcanic activity around our islands eh. - Silver was commercially mined back in 1897 at TARAWERA, Preservation Inlet, Southland.</p><p><b><i style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Silver Bullets</i></b> - 10% lighter but harder than lead would have been fairly common (or lead-silver alloy) back in the good old days, as silver was sometimes regarded as a nuisence by gold miners - but then they'd have needed ammo for their firearms .. especially if there were vampires sniffing around.</p><p>- If you are interested in <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Saltpeter</b></span>, Potasium Nitrate .. well you <i>can </i>brew your own by collecting bat shit from caves or by storing urine-rich excrements in heaps kept moist until it magically appears by efflorescence .. this would work better up around Auckland where they have more shit <i>and</i> rain eh.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHZq5lnLs5Fc42Tv9zvdy_i0SNnD0huMsac5J6CCaMjO15h0NPzvPPN07jed_Xffa5bzCdoOk422cDPl3MBuU5xQ8_zm08O0ZiSGIbaVKiLG2UjNMYDXuOiKdis4O_v7MWsbzgB3IUjvOggYVcPbu1gekivxVFbxkTXC6b3BtduidRnt2r7NpI_W06Pw/s264/Mangare.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="264" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHZq5lnLs5Fc42Tv9zvdy_i0SNnD0huMsac5J6CCaMjO15h0NPzvPPN07jed_Xffa5bzCdoOk422cDPl3MBuU5xQ8_zm08O0ZiSGIbaVKiLG2UjNMYDXuOiKdis4O_v7MWsbzgB3IUjvOggYVcPbu1gekivxVFbxkTXC6b3BtduidRnt2r7NpI_W06Pw/w400-h289/Mangare.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Mangare Sewage Works, Auckland:</b></div></b><p>It can be a bit dry <i>Down South.</i></p><p>If you're curious about where you might find some STEEL down here .. No Problem as NZ STEEL in Waikato are busy sucking-up IRONSANDS and smelting it and churning out <span face="MaisonNeue-Book" style="background-color: white; color: #002e7c; font-size: 15px;">COLORSTEEL®. </span><span face="MaisonNeue-Book" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">and other stuff.</span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Our </span><b style="background-color: #f6b26b;">Iron Sand</b><span style="background-color: white;"> (57% iron) is from the West Coast of the North Island - deposited by VOLCANIC activity from the TARANAKI region 2.5 Million years ago.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A lot of ironsand ore is exported by pumping it as a slurry to an off-shore terminal for shipping</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrc4vaszLR0uRXgTg2JohRmtLBjIr0xtiQanHhEcyKhLezW0MGzdv6jHm-mo_ALnwQGpFmKoGTW-tGt4PU3IZql2RNHKl2T37R7DS43IxwXKYw3g-JTQdoYF-4i_qF-niBAxar92CRgCF6-JsXBHSn5vHUDOA8oflKKyLZH8IfEwjqMGORv_nMRspBgA/s471/Taharoa-ironsand-mining-and-ship-loading-conte.width-800_SXMYTgd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="471" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrc4vaszLR0uRXgTg2JohRmtLBjIr0xtiQanHhEcyKhLezW0MGzdv6jHm-mo_ALnwQGpFmKoGTW-tGt4PU3IZql2RNHKl2T37R7DS43IxwXKYw3g-JTQdoYF-4i_qF-niBAxar92CRgCF6-JsXBHSn5vHUDOA8oflKKyLZH8IfEwjqMGORv_nMRspBgA/w400-h289/Taharoa-ironsand-mining-and-ship-loading-conte.width-800_SXMYTgd.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Someone is making money .. Sucking It Up - piped 3 km off-shore Taharoa at the 185 tonne Mooring pipe Terminal Buoy.<div><br /></div><div>I guess that what I am saying is that were we to be totally isolated down here in the South Pacific .. we might still be able to make traditional guns and other tools from local resources - including wood for charcoal and for stocks. - Just a thought anyway ..<br /><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Marty K.</i></b><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-81171357757985348172024-03-14T03:26:00.000-07:002024-03-14T03:26:05.039-07:00"Gun Twirling" & The Road Agent's Spin. - Patina:<p> Gun Twirling is <span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">100%</span><span> bullshit or <i>Showmanship</i>.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0nKH3cev0NedngAbCShVSukNg1j5t7bLoPSW54bKlTdn5fslBwAvRGS1Y8Lxqh-jxAa-326kji2DZlkI_fOScUb8eslESApJdUPHdZViqogyyMijB4CsxB18AQTV0hDCuZvcql58jXVlRT-dfbrwh4DSO71nciKRJG-vOgfkyQVOzrXXtZiaydXmrw/s2627/twirl.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2627" data-original-width="1292" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0nKH3cev0NedngAbCShVSukNg1j5t7bLoPSW54bKlTdn5fslBwAvRGS1Y8Lxqh-jxAa-326kji2DZlkI_fOScUb8eslESApJdUPHdZViqogyyMijB4CsxB18AQTV0hDCuZvcql58jXVlRT-dfbrwh4DSO71nciKRJG-vOgfkyQVOzrXXtZiaydXmrw/w196-h400/twirl.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>Gun Twirling Showmanship:</b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">- That reminds me of an English joke about naming pensioners as "<span style="font-size: medium;">T</span></span><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: medium;">wirlies" </span>for trying to use their travel perks on London's buses before 10 a.m .. </span><i style="color: #a64d79;"><b>"Am I too early? </b>(twirly)<b>"</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Western performers and some 'trick shooters' liked to end a performance with a flourish by twirling the now <b>EMPTY</b> guns around their trigger finger as they re-holster.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>Naturally some Hollywood Movie Makers think that this looks fantastic and have their fake gunslingers act it up at least once in every celluloid fantasy .. and it's equally logical that the hard of thinking <i style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Gangsta </i>boys will try this with their loaded <i>shootahs </i>when impressing mixed company. Of course the Emergency Depts retain reasonable supplies of blood and plasma .. It is unfortunate that the run-of-the-mill thickos don't differentiate between SINGLE ACTION revolvers and DOUBLE ACTION guns - nor do they consider that twirling a LOADED firearm is somewhat less safe than playing tricks with an empty banger.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>A maneuver that might be more legitimate from the Wild West is the 'Road Agent Spin' where the bad guy agrees to surrender his arm by holding it out butt forward before flicking it back into his grip for immediate discharge ..</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2xUpyAcpHKkhDt2OA53Qsih5WA20gFuolPY6MPiPyBbTPvqu287LuZ1B9Iyda8Nby3LEtKBflg6IbDV-AOdhKM6s67GojI7XPCFmwhtQmCVzFRG3j4VXd2GYNnw1sUeQTYRpZpX90VHlyycQHhqRbHgw_2zXyvUkHr2NPHpmxQLCF_1OVXxJwOVjpA/s1928/road%20agent%20spin%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1928" data-original-width="1756" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje2xUpyAcpHKkhDt2OA53Qsih5WA20gFuolPY6MPiPyBbTPvqu287LuZ1B9Iyda8Nby3LEtKBflg6IbDV-AOdhKM6s67GojI7XPCFmwhtQmCVzFRG3j4VXd2GYNnw1sUeQTYRpZpX90VHlyycQHhqRbHgw_2zXyvUkHr2NPHpmxQLCF_1OVXxJwOVjpA/w364-h400/road%20agent%20spin%201.jpg" width="364" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>Border Roll or Road Agent's Spin ..</b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">John Wesley Hardin </i>is said to have schooled <i style="font-weight: bold;">Wild Bill Hickok </i>on this potentially valuable technique ..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqmkQAaazK8tRxXGKkwc1l3mPq7qoUM8Y5UOO0m_AhtPtUhNes9NYtC1UmUnTAJsAMzW09IqfTkt7ebQ5dZt2wdAa3PcPxJvPRe6vvipJe7cLNmtEiOAQ5skQDc1emmYolQuL9ak7zcg9XqAo31HSONu09QjLXU1TGAO8B7kBuNOCurvL1r5lZFjIfjw/s2827/spin%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2587" data-original-width="2827" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqmkQAaazK8tRxXGKkwc1l3mPq7qoUM8Y5UOO0m_AhtPtUhNes9NYtC1UmUnTAJsAMzW09IqfTkt7ebQ5dZt2wdAa3PcPxJvPRe6vvipJe7cLNmtEiOAQ5skQDc1emmYolQuL9ak7zcg9XqAo31HSONu09QjLXU1TGAO8B7kBuNOCurvL1r5lZFjIfjw/s320/spin%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>172 Year Old Antique <i>Colt </i>1849 Pocket Model (a 1852 original)</b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span>I doubt too many cynical lawmen were caught by the <i>road agent's spin .. </i>certainly they would not have been fooled <u>twice</u> by it eh.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><b>PATINA:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">I like a feed of <i>patina </i>every now & then - but I don't like <span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #ffa400;">rust </b>nor grot, grunge, or grubbiness .. my shooters may arrive pretending to be sticky Petri dishes growing mushrooms from toilet seats - but I clean them.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Boiling the metal bits works.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I welcome a little characterful corrosion pitting, wear and impact cratering .. but I insist on them overcoming their old age handicaps by accepting repairs & replacements where possible. I <b>failed</b> with this antique <i style="font-weight: bold;">Colt</i> - being a useless old fart - but an old <i style="font-weight: bold;">IPSC </i>and <i style="font-weight: bold;">Antique Arms</i> mate came to my rescue by doing what I couldn't. He got it working great.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A friend in need. You know who you are. A brilliant job - Thanks Mate.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></i></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-71388485007084548702024-03-07T11:35:00.000-08:002024-03-07T11:35:06.489-08:00BARGAIN of The Century With Royal Connections:<p><b><span style="font-size: large;">THIS IS A JOKE?</span></b></p><p>Do not miss this this uniquely versatile property investment from yet another cock-up blamed on Jeremy Corbyn.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheUuigVeD6X_p2UOC2XYRTXopGfo-DsmGbZjjaJ_3xs2I6Y6S_ugBVDCgSVYNaMhgsmReByCQCfzenZGzuHJF3we4jyDNfO055d2k4yHmxOzCJ5rrslx2RTiI781j-nQVOCNOUccRWzKhydDXhAuGAKGHZpizd1JgWlSg2Zyl1oGbGf_nKTioNNm53GQ/s680/TELEMMGLPICT000368598361_17092250103710_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqgsaO8O78rhmZrDxTlQBjdLdu0TL-Cg_AMOUqySXmFgU.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheUuigVeD6X_p2UOC2XYRTXopGfo-DsmGbZjjaJ_3xs2I6Y6S_ugBVDCgSVYNaMhgsmReByCQCfzenZGzuHJF3we4jyDNfO055d2k4yHmxOzCJ5rrslx2RTiI781j-nQVOCNOUccRWzKhydDXhAuGAKGHZpizd1JgWlSg2Zyl1oGbGf_nKTioNNm53GQ/w640-h400/TELEMMGLPICT000368598361_17092250103710_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqgsaO8O78rhmZrDxTlQBjdLdu0TL-Cg_AMOUqySXmFgU.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>This fine example of Royal British Craftsmanship presents a most momentous enrichment opportunity to own Great Britain's very own 'TWIN TOWERS'..<p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">TWO</span> Penthouse Conversions of all metal construction </b>- no austerity flammable plastic cladding here - with your very own SKI SLOPE and Helipad. - Extensive under-cover parking.</p><p>This asset rich rental accomodation potential may be located to your choice of high demand localities - as this new structure can be towed to any maritime berth world wide.</p><p>Expressions of Interest are sought from Venture Capitalists and Pension Fund managers wanting high returns, to <i><b>E</b></i><b><i>pstein Maxwell Sunak & Windsor, City of LONDON.</i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNDfc6xkEzjKr7Uk-GasxZUaT9ETNGfQIflzrYNIESxSPaCmfCWR4-qxUCYI5SCE7F8j7X9Ms_aB9pGi6wkpz7vyorqj9SDvjvAgho9q60u4VjTL9e6_83DNuaLAn4LfC9YBLkJVii6iEdG_PD7E0UDolOiPU0inXQsX7dNIplOU523Qn5KU3CQGJZQ/s300/download%20(38).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNDfc6xkEzjKr7Uk-GasxZUaT9ETNGfQIflzrYNIESxSPaCmfCWR4-qxUCYI5SCE7F8j7X9Ms_aB9pGi6wkpz7vyorqj9SDvjvAgho9q60u4VjTL9e6_83DNuaLAn4LfC9YBLkJVii6iEdG_PD7E0UDolOiPU0inXQsX7dNIplOU523Qn5KU3CQGJZQ/s1600/download%20(38).jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p>- Imagine magestically rising to the top of your very own STERNWHEELER with an exhilerating <i>"London Eye" attraction </i> fixed at the back-end, located offshore of Blackpool's Illuminations - recreating the worlds biggest ever <b>STERNWHEELER ..</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3e8gFAxVHSJlfZryfAJpl4zv3RoA4O3VU-SmaAoEZ440AwH4eRvkNPJJDQyDqeQPgd3sNDVC77ziKMLbdI4mJGQvKHIFdZmrcJmx9kw9JAilwVE-kT3QPJkioaa4iCRJCwrjykiFnvqOSaFim2Dh-SDoxeg7rUrJeq7WihTxs4y7I_BiAf-2a7QkJg/s260/images%20(30).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="260" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3e8gFAxVHSJlfZryfAJpl4zv3RoA4O3VU-SmaAoEZ440AwH4eRvkNPJJDQyDqeQPgd3sNDVC77ziKMLbdI4mJGQvKHIFdZmrcJmx9kw9JAilwVE-kT3QPJkioaa4iCRJCwrjykiFnvqOSaFim2Dh-SDoxeg7rUrJeq7WihTxs4y7I_BiAf-2a7QkJg/s1600/images%20(30).jpeg" width="260" /></a></div><br /><b>Not 8 Billion Pounds </b>- not even 2 Billion - bidding for this aristocratic, supreme once-in-a-lifetime investment opens at offers over FIVE MILLION Pounds. - Her uniquely similar sister ship will soon be moving to American waters .. Perhaps you can envisage a lucrative service contract with immigration authorities .. well this fine facility is perfectly suited as a secure 'PRISON HULK' while the hull's useable lifetime may be extended greatly by pouring a baseplate of water resistant marine concrete ..<div><br /><div>This opportunity does not include any aircraft, but Popular Personalities Harry & Megan will be available for a <b><i>Re-Dedication</i></b> at their usual Fees, plus Naming Rights & expences.</div><div><br /></div><div>Consider that King Henry VIII's flagship <i style="font-weight: bold;">Mary Rose </i>remains a most financially successful attraction to this day .. and <i>it</i> <b style="text-decoration-line: underline;">sunk</b> in 1545 ..</div><div><br /></div><div>No Ground Rent ..</div><div><br /></div><div>The remunerative scope of this fund-transfer as a floating hotel - perhaps adjacent to a scenic offshore windfarm with superb boating, fishing, diving and catering by Escoffier Trained Chefs .. is further enhanced by TAX CREDITS and 'Non-Res' EXEMPTIONS ..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tD29d2txmp9uf-rGh-gk7QSkveyxWGfq3KWRg1qm60xo_2LroR5kSRSryT7mz0z61iVBxeD8qcTVyNA7D18vhAERGk4clBvcMCJr6WoyibvjU07ggNMh-xVrinS_at807l5qnNZjFdY8LMOj7yr5uK_sxGboBc6GqpamS2JTJ1gJdCkpQodjsTtnuw/s318/download%20(39).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tD29d2txmp9uf-rGh-gk7QSkveyxWGfq3KWRg1qm60xo_2LroR5kSRSryT7mz0z61iVBxeD8qcTVyNA7D18vhAERGk4clBvcMCJr6WoyibvjU07ggNMh-xVrinS_at807l5qnNZjFdY8LMOj7yr5uK_sxGboBc6GqpamS2JTJ1gJdCkpQodjsTtnuw/w640-h320/download%20(39).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><div>- Perhaps you envisage utility as a private Plutonium nuclear materials storage unit in the Irish Sea - handy to the <b>THORP Reprocessing Plant at SELLAFIELD, CUMBRIA </b>- connected by pipeline to their cooling water systems and in close proximity to their specialist nuclear police ..</div><div><br /></div><div> OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND.</div><div><br /></div><div>Making Britain GREAT again.</div><div><br /></div><div>Each qualifying enquiry receives a personal desk-top Corgi Model of your Heritage Investment ..</div></div></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbhGYk0JK5lVxxren-SFC-BvbV_sPT51n93xEGNAE9aroFABvVLfh3IxFY3RcF9ShYvhPeqs5UznwdyzXfApWutIXf4MrVFc77vrTeSUbfh_4pJYeTZmGMEtX9Ee8JuVrHKhO5cck2GmgZS3T_RKIoTAce5kp1WBaLptzv4n0aHig1rfP9yiWFg2hhw/s1120/1120_px_x_417_CC75001.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="1120" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbhGYk0JK5lVxxren-SFC-BvbV_sPT51n93xEGNAE9aroFABvVLfh3IxFY3RcF9ShYvhPeqs5UznwdyzXfApWutIXf4MrVFc77vrTeSUbfh_4pJYeTZmGMEtX9Ee8JuVrHKhO5cck2GmgZS3T_RKIoTAce5kp1WBaLptzv4n0aHig1rfP9yiWFg2hhw/w400-h149/1120_px_x_417_CC75001.png" width="400" /></a></div><i>Marty K.</i><br /><i><br /></i></b></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-69852679111204522732024-03-03T15:30:00.000-08:002024-03-03T15:33:29.146-08:00Where Are Our NZ SAS Working?<p> I have no inside information. There is NO WAY I would have made it into this special Regiment. I <i style="font-weight: bold;">have </i>met and known three guys through pistol shooting competition who - for the record - were <u>not</u> in the NZSAS ..</p><p>My Irish father served nearly eight years from 1938 through WW2 in the Irish Guards and No.1 and No.2 Commando .. claiming that was the only way that he could get away from the Guard's English <i>public school lgbtqia </i>Officers. - He was in North Africa, Italy, and Norway, plus Northern Europe.</p><p>Moi, I <b>was</b> once declared - on a standing room only London-Peterborough train - by a drunken soccer fan-yob freshly released from a Spanish prison, to be SAS, and he 'befriended' me loudly for half the trip until he got thirsty and wandered off. - <span>That's</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span>as </span><span>close</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">as I get to special forces ..</span></p><p>There may be some 500-700 men serving in New Zealands most combat fit Regiment .. guesstimates vary but there are perhaps six squadrons. They are mostly - very well trained & capable professional killers who do not question orders. - Naturally the guys will have their own <i>opinions & theories - </i>but they do the job.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZXdK-BtPTusxSckKXT-Hk63JVO8N9QgTCOosFiRK33CohGwLcKBnG7nlxvVRuZV11JBCq2qMRwtrnua8yxBmn4FVswKWPzwGBZPgqA7PE_re5nwKTNfP-dqpSJ94FI9ZohLqt1-odHDL6bTm9q0AWgGodzmfII-MmmKschohmKwb17UupxcHR09P73w/s206/UK_SAS_(badge).svg.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="150" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZXdK-BtPTusxSckKXT-Hk63JVO8N9QgTCOosFiRK33CohGwLcKBnG7nlxvVRuZV11JBCq2qMRwtrnua8yxBmn4FVswKWPzwGBZPgqA7PE_re5nwKTNfP-dqpSJ94FI9ZohLqt1-odHDL6bTm9q0AWgGodzmfII-MmmKschohmKwb17UupxcHR09P73w/s1600/UK_SAS_(badge).svg.png" width="150" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Where are they working?</span></p><p>Both <b>Ukraine</b> & <b>Israel </b>are stated to currently be places where these men are deployed. They work closely with Britains own SAS and <i>them</i>-<i>that</i>-<i>know</i> state many of Ukraine's commando style successes are the work of these units .. as are the alert personal guards watching over <i style="font-weight: bold;">Zelenskyy </i>.. keeping him safe until his value dissipates .. for <b><span style="font-size: medium;">BlackRock</span></b> to take-up their <b>410</b> BILLION Dollar rebuilding Ukraine contract.</p><p><i style="font-weight: bold;">The Guardian </i>reports that the 50/97 special forces operating in Ukraine are British SAS - and where they are, you can guess the kiwis may also be having a beer or three. - SAS are said to have co-operated with Israel's <i>Sayaret Matkal </i>in recent times - But the UK Govt. has issued a <b style="font-size: large;">D-Notice </b>(DSMA <span style="font-size: x-small;">Defence & Security Media Advisory Notice)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>instructing media it may not report <span style="font-size: medium;">any</span> such activity in Gaza.</p><p>NZ does have a "six man team" deployed in the Red Sea "upholding maritime security" while Defence Minister Judith Collins has extended our official 97< defence personnel <i style="font-weight: bold;">"standing with Ukraine" </i>until June 2025.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdnTWO5pL06LepE0TUkVDPrfyusZbn8TFYR8CV-ihy8D1xXpZpvy_Gua1QZEcptDMi8Zwp9BFixNUzxQgVOpeL4Pvcb3Vz3qpthFmUZI5U8b5nhQDG7oFnRFUvsaoxaTR14cB2a91qO50cs-s_ZDOVyxY3gRCJI6WkB6-2SbcHLp0aPrSZB1tZE2gTg/s976/rubymar%20off%20yemen.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="976" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdnTWO5pL06LepE0TUkVDPrfyusZbn8TFYR8CV-ihy8D1xXpZpvy_Gua1QZEcptDMi8Zwp9BFixNUzxQgVOpeL4Pvcb3Vz3qpthFmUZI5U8b5nhQDG7oFnRFUvsaoxaTR14cB2a91qO50cs-s_ZDOVyxY3gRCJI6WkB6-2SbcHLp0aPrSZB1tZE2gTg/s320/rubymar%20off%20yemen.webp" width="320" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>UK Ship RUBYMAR Sunk by missile off Yemen</b></div></b><p>I suppose<i style="font-weight: bold;"> every little helps ..</i></p><p>I would expect in due course that a splattering of NZ medals will be presented for the most successful killing performance?</p><p><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></p><p>- Don't shout at me please .. Armies are trained and paid <span style="font-size: medium;">to kill people</span> the Government wants dead .. well that's what they taught <b>me</b> to do in the CCF cadre course at school in 1958.</p>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-24974425717666544602024-02-26T17:54:00.000-08:002024-02-26T17:54:19.835-08:00BLACK POWDER, GOLDEN POWDER, CRIMSON POWDER - Not for the colour conscious:<p> There's a phrase "There's more than one way to skin a cat".</p><p>Governments of all flavours fully consider that <b><i><u>they</u></i></b> - and their wealth would be safer and stronger if NOBODY other than themselves had guns .. This is a <i>"UNIPARTY"</i> commonality where they adopt the political 'middle ground' while accepting $$ legal bribe <i>donations </i>from weird minorities in exchange for preference.</p><p>'Guns are <b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>BAD</i></span></b> unless they are <i><u>OURS</u></i>. All shooters will have to be government approved or government employed.'</p><p>Nitro based <i>SMOKELESS POWDERS </i>are what propels most bullets to the target from modern cartridge guns.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcuf2WD-urpGuYcjzkCHX-Z_RxnE56VTvhDhiclZjM9-Cy-V0bphy5cUEuO2G2_bfosTRak7aewXxsTUjcrw1AfHrrRPcHwGS-37AUsGIo-0QU7tp3Ok0rpb6Nvdk7F-7cVot-MjX7A9ag0gGMZgr-4pi8zSun3IPyIB_rqFsGRSIXU9TZq6RAd-kPNQ/s254/images%20(26).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="198" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcuf2WD-urpGuYcjzkCHX-Z_RxnE56VTvhDhiclZjM9-Cy-V0bphy5cUEuO2G2_bfosTRak7aewXxsTUjcrw1AfHrrRPcHwGS-37AUsGIo-0QU7tp3Ok0rpb6Nvdk7F-7cVot-MjX7A9ag0gGMZgr-4pi8zSun3IPyIB_rqFsGRSIXU9TZq6RAd-kPNQ/s1600/images%20(26).jpeg" width="198" /></a></div><p>But - for some 500+ years before these modern powders, - society mixed saltpeter with charcoal and sulfur - using this MIXTURE for many years in the "new" self contained cartridges that greatly facilitated rapid firing and multiple shot firearms.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But -</span> there were and <u>are</u> <b>other</b> mixtures that work to produce high pressure gases that will accelerate bullets out of a barrel ..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2miGTujiLA3uaBtMrzOKqBJwBuY_ZlZX7zTVGD8vVZRdV82tG9vOyG8pClUqEEFSPlzUSGQ5Y1stq_cp7l4C1JHcoPHQHdLHA9RnUreH6eGdZxdMAwoi9ffAhgLr3mqmm1Av1LeJrCXqGBjnFyphjUoucug3wMXVhXT7JQhpTERWdHGP_il1EetCisg/s275/images%20(25).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2miGTujiLA3uaBtMrzOKqBJwBuY_ZlZX7zTVGD8vVZRdV82tG9vOyG8pClUqEEFSPlzUSGQ5Y1stq_cp7l4C1JHcoPHQHdLHA9RnUreH6eGdZxdMAwoi9ffAhgLr3mqmm1Av1LeJrCXqGBjnFyphjUoucug3wMXVhXT7JQhpTERWdHGP_il1EetCisg/w640-h426/images%20(25).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p>There's all sorts of dodgy stuff used in explosives - fireworks and rocketry that personally don't interest me much, - as life is too short anyway .. but slings, bows and arrows and guns do appeal as tools for independence.</p><p><b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #ffa400;">GOLDEN</span></b> <b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #ffa400;">POWDER</span></b> is a 60:40 (or 64:36) blend of POTASSIUM NITRATE with ASCORBIC ACID (vitamin C).</p><p><b><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: red;">CRIMSON</span></b> <b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: red;">POWDER</span> </b>is the <b>same</b> stuff modified by adding some 5% ferric oxide- RUST <span style="color: red;">red oxide</span>.</p><p>I have NOT made this but read that the technique is simply to add the ingredients to water in a pan and boil them evaporating the water until the fluids turn gooey and change colour from grey-white to yellow tinged - remove from heat - cool & break-up. <b>Link </b>to them that do cook it<b>:</b></p><p><b><a href="https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?464557-My-homemade-Golden-powder!" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?464557-My-homemade-Golden-powder!</a></b></p><p>This stuff has been produced commercially as a Black Powder Substitute but not currently that I know of. One BIG PLUS is it doesn't foul like <b>BP </b>and is not corrosive in barrels .. BUT it is hygroscopic and clumps into a cake when carelessly moist. - <b>GP/CP</b> is less powerful by volume than the best <b>BPs </b>but is usefully adequate while simple to make and CHEAPER. <span style="font-size: x-small;">The guys report that <b><span style="color: #ffa400;">GP</span></b>/<b><span style="color: red;">CP</span></b> is as powerful as <span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Blackpowder</span> measured by weight and while it is clean & non-corrosive to STEEL - it is bad for your brass.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">This <b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #ffa400;">Golden</span></b> <b><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #ffa400;">Powder</span></b> works better than United Kingdom's NUCLEAR DETERRANT <i>TRIDENT</i> missiles burping from their rusty submarines .. Do the British submarines have to be close off the Florida coast so that the Pentagon can release their nuclear arming system?</span></p><p>I did buy a book from U S some years back <span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">'WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE REAL GOLDEN POWDER </span><b>by </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Skip Kurtz </i>- a personal tale of intrigue and criminality from the American capitalist jungle that casts flickering light on shady dealings .. a sort of low level corruption story much like the High Level world of U S Banking-Sex-Blackmail-CIA-Mossad-Politics-Corruption & Power/ Epstein-Maxwell-Clinton - Assasinations, Ukraine-Israel Slaughter type existance that we tolerate in this Century ..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikSQ8Rz1oLqnIX5Y4izRT4OcgrqKK4m9KC_jcFMb_uYFz4IVBIeiSfgijzlHm3MipXYD7t9AFlJUgUxx4s9mEk6wX76Pw1Q9ATQ6lC3SjJgXmR_Oj6GNFspdPh5S5av5Idg3gQUMeIUVwLXJVzBizQ6FUFwZrqkPyxxrZfsg8fJ__rnIE6Nol9qylgUg/s322/images%20(27).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="322" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikSQ8Rz1oLqnIX5Y4izRT4OcgrqKK4m9KC_jcFMb_uYFz4IVBIeiSfgijzlHm3MipXYD7t9AFlJUgUxx4s9mEk6wX76Pw1Q9ATQ6lC3SjJgXmR_Oj6GNFspdPh5S5av5Idg3gQUMeIUVwLXJVzBizQ6FUFwZrqkPyxxrZfsg8fJ__rnIE6Nol9qylgUg/s320/images%20(27).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Imagine the world's "most powerful nation" being offered the choice of criminal dotards <i><b>Biden</b></i> or <b><i>Trump</i></b> - to rule over all in the land of the free ...</p><p>There is a further propellant that I won't mention - known widely as CANDY PROPELLANT - made from a mix of Potassium Nitrate and Dextrose/Sucrose 65:35 ratio. I don't know much about it's features ..</p><p><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></p><p>The book is still offered by Amazon whereas Golden Powder author <b><i>Skip</i></b> is departed ..</p>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-74609885734524085912024-02-21T02:29:00.000-08:002024-02-21T02:29:14.388-08:00Police Behaviours Regarding Lawful Firearms Owners - CORONIAL INQUEST:<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #800180;">RNZ National announced midday Tuesday 20th February that the Government of Finland was to build 40 new rifle shooting ranges to train their population defensively and had contracted to buy new </span><span style="color: red;">"Single</span><span style="color: #800180;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Shot</span><span style="color: #800180;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Semi-Automatic</span><span style="color: #800180;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Rifles"</span><span style="color: #800180;"> from a Finnish Arms Company ..</span></i></b></span></p><p>Expert Journalism.</p><p><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8; font-size: 14px;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #4d5156;"><a href="https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/ourcode.pdf">https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/ourcode.pdf</a></span></span></p><div><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">In his Commissioners Comment to the online version of NZ Police </span><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">CODE</span> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">OF</span> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">CONDUCT</span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <i>Andrew Coster </i>refers to integrity, trust and confidence. - I confidently assure the Commissioner that some 250,000 FIT AND PROPER Lawful Firearms Users have <u>lost</u> any trust and confidence in NZ Police Management as the result of having been treated as outcast scum by them - they have repeatedly accused us of being irresponsible, careless, dishonest associates of criminal gangs - and of being the root cause of violent acts of terrorism. - This despite us having been certified <b>by police</b> as Fit & Proper Persons to own guns.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How many of New Zealand's 10,549 sworn officers are themselves <b><i>fit</i> </b><i><b>and</b></i> <i><b>proper</b></i> <b>?</b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Both the CODE OF CONDUCT and Commissioner Coster avoid use of the words <b><i>FUTILE - DECEPTIVE - INAPPROPRIATE - MISDIRECTED - WASTEFUL - INEFFECTIVE - & FALSE PREMISE.</i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The multiple murders of Australian BRENTON TARRANT in March 2019 were followed by heavily controlled statements designed to demonise gun owners and to overlook police neglect in granting TARRANT his firearms licence. We citizens were forbidden any access to anything this killer said .. and no public trial was held. - Police ran <b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">BUY </span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">BACK</span></b> <b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">2021</span></b> demanding that a range of legally owned guns be surrendered for destruction at a cost exceeding 100 Million Dollars <b>with <span style="font-size: large;">zero benefit</span> on violent crime figures.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrOjCeanCfIrIpJ6eG8JsoiNaAl8evZv68Kq7j5o0sIpbTdy8OocW-fHxdqAasvr9dDGhHOjP9bUL7vKHsm_DfhuV6IIZIznwPjmfccVnc27qfGj2wKWtDnfDgLXUKF5cDKl6UHdsAEuboeo6pz3FiDVGDflrCSiI21ZSpTvhMoNjGpp2FI8nsWP-CdA/s259/download%20(37).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrOjCeanCfIrIpJ6eG8JsoiNaAl8evZv68Kq7j5o0sIpbTdy8OocW-fHxdqAasvr9dDGhHOjP9bUL7vKHsm_DfhuV6IIZIznwPjmfccVnc27qfGj2wKWtDnfDgLXUKF5cDKl6UHdsAEuboeo6pz3FiDVGDflrCSiI21ZSpTvhMoNjGpp2FI8nsWP-CdA/s1600/download%20(37).jpeg" width="259" /></a></div></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Harsh new NZ Firearms Regulation and Licensing requirements have been piled on top of fee increases - with complicated and time consuming application documentation. A new but pointless </span><span style="color: #e0f361; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #095831;"><b>Puna Kōrero mō te Pū</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> gun register has been established to discourage and limit lawful gun ownership - this is reported to be costing us a further <b>1 Million Dollars every Week.</b></span></div><div><span face="Mulish, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a strong case here that such expenditure is a further <b style="font-size: large;">MISAPPROPRIATION OF POLICE FUNDS</b> - diverting essential police resources away from crime prevention into an area of political spin and attempted social control.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A recently received NOTICE OF SHOOTING CLUB / SHOOTING RANGE INSPECTION - instructs members to refer queries to a dedicated <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><i>"clubs and ranges team' at </i></b></span></span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><i>clubsandranges@police.govt.nz.</i></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: #2b00fe; font-weight: bold;">" </i>-<i style="color: #2b00fe; font-weight: bold;"> </i>this informs of further useless police expenditure by a dedicated team misdirected towards a grouping of exemplary law-abiding, non criminal 'Fit & Proper Persons'.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;">______________________</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: inherit;">The First Phase CORONIAL INQUEST into the Christchurch Masjidain Attack was completed on 15 December 2023. - Deputy Chief Coroner Brigette Windley <b><span style="font-size: medium;">reserved her</span></b> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>findings</b></span>.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">There remain outstanding & unexamined the </span><b style="font-size: large;">3</b> <u style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">most important</u><span style="font-size: medium;"> of the 13 Issues regarding </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Police</span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Responsibility</span></b><span style="font-size: medium;">, - perhaps to be examined at an undetermined future date.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;"><b>- COLFO</b> was to have a representative/observer at the INQUEST. </span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">- ANY COMMENT OR OBSERVATIONS?</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shooters have voted one representative into Parliament - Nicole McKee - and she is making her voice heard .. <span style="font-size: medium;">BUT WHERE ARE THE SHOOTERS ORGANISATIONS?</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For decades these Clubs, Groups and Controlling Bodies have been taking membership fees from sports people to represent our interests - only to <b>DO NOTHING</b> to stop this victimization, other than to send a few easily ignored letters - while the police spokespersons have repeatedly misrepresented the facts, and pointed the finger of blame at FIT & PROPER firearms owners ..</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Membership of sporting shooters clubs is falling. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The number of legally Licensed FIT & PROPER gun owners is falling.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Control of feral pest animals such as pigs & possums is falling.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Firearms Licenses are being withdrawn for <i><b>Driving </b>offences.</i></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No Licence is required for Police to use restricted firearms as <b>weapons.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Police</span></b> numbers are falling as they are recruited to Australia ..</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Violent Crime is rising.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Criminal Gang Membership is rising.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Distrust of Government is rising</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Common Sense is draining away as fast as Wellington's sewage and piped water does, into the grimy streets.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div><span face="Mulish, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #095831; box-sizing: border-box; color: #414042; font-family: Mulish, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="kb0PBd cvP2Ce" data-sncf="2" data-snf="mCCBcf" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; contain: layout paint; flex: 0 0 auto; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="fG8Fp uo4vr" style="color: #70757a; line-height: 1.58;"></div></div><div class="kb0PBd cvP2Ce" data-sncf="3" data-snf="gdePb" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; contain: layout paint; flex: 0 0 auto; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow: hidden;"></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-38273671347337258172024-02-18T11:59:00.000-08:002024-02-18T11:59:30.702-08:00Ukraine and BLACKPOWDER Use By Today's Military:<p> <i style="color: #2b00fe; font-weight: bold;">"You cannot explain to a fool that he is a fool - <span style="font-size: medium;">because</span> he <span style="font-size: medium;">is</span> a fool." </i><i>Dunning</i>-<i>Kruger</i> effect according to Andrei Martyanov ..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfyM-5cqMOANwYUgyxvqnprmg88ezErD-B5pWQMT62GH-XT1Kf0gkU2xG6VvegY6W9dhFLLeYS6DxjHpUXKUdzWZKIclZQBLNr8aCp3NpDyj6SRsul7qmTVmU2HgBf8REG1EJhfqc6ybar5CqtkBpYzV4af-mHF-dg6RM7O5UgKlrmcXnFXpv_nk4C5A/s740/muzzleloader-powders.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="740" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfyM-5cqMOANwYUgyxvqnprmg88ezErD-B5pWQMT62GH-XT1Kf0gkU2xG6VvegY6W9dhFLLeYS6DxjHpUXKUdzWZKIclZQBLNr8aCp3NpDyj6SRsul7qmTVmU2HgBf8REG1EJhfqc6ybar5CqtkBpYzV4af-mHF-dg6RM7O5UgKlrmcXnFXpv_nk4C5A/w400-h266/muzzleloader-powders.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><u>ONE</u> </i><span style="text-align: left;">reason that </span><b style="background-color: #cccccc; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">BLACKPOWDER</span></b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> - or might it be more acceptable to call it <i style="color: #2b00fe; font-weight: bold;">'Antique Propellant' </i> - is becoming ever more expensive and hard to find - is that the Military-Arms Industry has a <u style="font-weight: bold;">prior</u> requirement for it's manufacture and supply ..</span></div><p><span style="background-color: white;">Yes they still use tonnes of it for BIG Caliber artillery and in aircraft EJECTION SEATS, and their bulk orders take priority over the needs of civililian shooters. - How many different reasons does anyone need, to learn how to self-supply neccessities?</span></p><p>The ongoing slaughter in Ukraine has, to date, conservatively cost taxpayers in Europe <span><b style="font-size: large;">300 Billion Dollars - </b><span>but the U S is in for <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>14 TRILLION DOLLARS .. </b></span> (according to Col Douglas MacGregor)</span> .. not to forget the more than <b>500,000</b> DEATHS and more than 500,000 terribly maimed Ukrainian casualities. - Plus a still awful but lesser number on the Russian side of this conflict - possibly 50,000 dead ..</span></p><p><span>How many more lives will depart from that theater AND - how many of us around the world are going to be killed by the insanity of Israel and Palestine - before that GOVERNMENT slaughter ends?</span></p><p><span>Antique ball propellant has for some 700 years been produced by fairly ordinary folk as a "Cottage Industry' - Naturally accidents have occurred from time to time resulting from careless handling or from unknown cause. Black Powder or Gun Powder is a LOW Explosive .. but it <b><span style="font-size: large;">is</span></b> explosive.</span></p><p><span>Petrol is explosive, Gas is explosive, kitchen knives are sharp - bulls, stags & stallions are dangerous. Do not walk in front of moving buses or trains - nor eat any possum or rat poison.</span></p><p><span>Provided a careful educated approach is adopted at all times with particular care to mix only small batches while religeously avoiding all iron and steel tools & containers, problems will be avoided .. WOOD IS GOOD and glass is class .. <b>Don't </b>mix it or store it in your home or close to dwellings as insurance companies will object - not to mention paranoid politicians and their armed servants.</span></p><p><span>Do not break the laws of the land ..</span></p><p><span>If you don't know what you are doing, - don't do it.</span></p><p><span><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></span></p><p><span><b>Please support your local Gun Shop in any way possible</b></span></p>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-86707470960240691842024-02-11T23:40:00.000-08:002024-02-11T23:40:31.568-08:00PEPPERBOX Pistol - 'Southall' of England?<p> <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Richard SOUTHALL Jnr</span></i></b> was known as a Gunmaker in Birmingham England, listed 1820-1845.. (<i>John Southall</i> <i>Snr</i> 1769-1817) .. possibly also of London.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOAFEF1wfkJDkx-_mARa14G0Qe9XmiGJBOhwFaLlA8DyVBWGUXVau3DJaixIEmIar3V3ljkx612iZqiYTYlp_2mBubn-h0KygN5T8FtfxiCocRJoTjz_gztklct0J7dY0l4guZguqCFzwP_K0R1HcXnGT0gyDlYGTxSWGw28qhyphenhyphen5nLeNqgE91LWvu1cg/s1600/southallBirmingham%20pepperbox.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1103" data-original-width="1600" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOAFEF1wfkJDkx-_mARa14G0Qe9XmiGJBOhwFaLlA8DyVBWGUXVau3DJaixIEmIar3V3ljkx612iZqiYTYlp_2mBubn-h0KygN5T8FtfxiCocRJoTjz_gztklct0J7dY0l4guZguqCFzwP_K0R1HcXnGT0gyDlYGTxSWGw28qhyphenhyphen5nLeNqgE91LWvu1cg/w640-h442/southallBirmingham%20pepperbox.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Above .. A <b>nice looking</b> 'Signed' <b><i>Southall</i></b> Pistol at an Auction House</div><div style="text-align: center;">- But this one below is mine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsywN7NUlP2Wmy7RqK3yL_Wnx_-7pO-f4OcTC048FZGfuPP6tw-Wy0SfzOOIElEUqVb24WqSQwkYLslxV2qznFhc0CpEflDf0O87KoImSj2nAKltnXQueJRRoWd8hmYsTspbyFBh9QViIsv7uWhI1ncly-KFG348RlSdYhP3mzOJjaRV4w554h66Vifw/s2403/Pepper%20My.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1613" data-original-width="2403" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsywN7NUlP2Wmy7RqK3yL_Wnx_-7pO-f4OcTC048FZGfuPP6tw-Wy0SfzOOIElEUqVb24WqSQwkYLslxV2qznFhc0CpEflDf0O87KoImSj2nAKltnXQueJRRoWd8hmYsTspbyFBh9QViIsv7uWhI1ncly-KFG348RlSdYhP3mzOJjaRV4w554h66Vifw/w640-h430/Pepper%20My.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I think my old banger may likely have originated in the same workshops .. wouldn't it be great to discover how this antique shooter travelled all the way to New Zealand?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">- Nicely engraved <span style="background-color: #999999; color: white;">'German Silver'</span> frame .. this has <b>no</b> <i>real </i>silver, it being a brass-like alloy with copper/nickel & zinc, typically 60/20/20.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelHOgNfaulS53ZLieWbA1mU4N3xkcj7WxNYLfuV9MjJjnp1ulRuA5TNv4ohYXueRju12Siosb5pjJ4EbrwCES6r40ug-HmGyyGjU9giojtY241koDLNWY3_wbQeK6bd6xjpzUcvSEUP3Q3JzLBLRGc_PYFVyekvs1o8rVFO1qEYWJG4RxSejOHXEJng/s2118/peppered%20Bugle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1804" data-original-width="2118" height="546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhelHOgNfaulS53ZLieWbA1mU4N3xkcj7WxNYLfuV9MjJjnp1ulRuA5TNv4ohYXueRju12Siosb5pjJ4EbrwCES6r40ug-HmGyyGjU9giojtY241koDLNWY3_wbQeK6bd6xjpzUcvSEUP3Q3JzLBLRGc_PYFVyekvs1o8rVFO1qEYWJG4RxSejOHXEJng/w640-h546/peppered%20Bugle.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>My Pepperbox Is Of the Same Pattern For Sure ..</b></div></b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPP_24JiyxJEONhTcOq6vf7T2hmztqt6_FvSEIlVdlOQ8qjAodO3HkCs6KQdgL4-j0sJGGt5Q5HG-c_0KqBHUakIvqTGomRoCbuyBYKGMuPqdgEMwI9qCHyP9k8fbRSWIw2QmALec3Ao6lA7BpV0QiPH_AMJvO_iFtHYLC8fbes6n7n1wOqRPllL0sQ/s2048/pepperbox%20cylinder%20nippleholes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPP_24JiyxJEONhTcOq6vf7T2hmztqt6_FvSEIlVdlOQ8qjAodO3HkCs6KQdgL4-j0sJGGt5Q5HG-c_0KqBHUakIvqTGomRoCbuyBYKGMuPqdgEMwI9qCHyP9k8fbRSWIw2QmALec3Ao6lA7BpV0QiPH_AMJvO_iFtHYLC8fbes6n7n1wOqRPllL0sQ/w400-h300/pepperbox%20cylinder%20nippleholes.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Mine Being Worked On ..</b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHXd-SzpkEP7Bs7muVVPIPJBwe3gR61uZwR_tpJ73FYJHCDaTIhTfYouV1v3ZUP8MlFZEQwUoCMY8KAyIOc39EvYW_uyzdznkNsMqfybKulAP3I42win_00heu7Ao4zkJvEHANBx_4GFBhnshYClj-B1cpvCoS-iao9wedrFoqYj6c-fRNvhGftWinAQ/s2048/pepperbox%20OffCenterAxis.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHXd-SzpkEP7Bs7muVVPIPJBwe3gR61uZwR_tpJ73FYJHCDaTIhTfYouV1v3ZUP8MlFZEQwUoCMY8KAyIOc39EvYW_uyzdznkNsMqfybKulAP3I42win_00heu7Ao4zkJvEHANBx_4GFBhnshYClj-B1cpvCoS-iao9wedrFoqYj6c-fRNvhGftWinAQ/s320/pepperbox%20OffCenterAxis.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Someone earlier had re-drilled the axis off-center<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQnlutMz2mNpjaU-oP3eCo9kUp-r0MdcYMISdYmwmS5mxAlkSGJQ6Gm4SW40MhPmmSWxONIwQCEaB8NU6DvK0_X3xkjsyTOhqwGPcx9ihybiTK6seo0P2N88hMXV99Pi-DJw3TQicmvUTERrJj50yp3wxiVGVoGX9AODo5VleE9aacEgeOi7V0Lh68kA/s2048/pepperbox%20frontcylinder%20cleanedup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQnlutMz2mNpjaU-oP3eCo9kUp-r0MdcYMISdYmwmS5mxAlkSGJQ6Gm4SW40MhPmmSWxONIwQCEaB8NU6DvK0_X3xkjsyTOhqwGPcx9ihybiTK6seo0P2N88hMXV99Pi-DJw3TQicmvUTERrJj50yp3wxiVGVoGX9AODo5VleE9aacEgeOi7V0Lh68kA/s320/pepperbox%20frontcylinder%20cleanedup.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Honestly, I'm not complaining .. but to-date every antique pistol I have bought has been badly <span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"adjusted"</i></span> by someone before me - Sure I bought them for lower prices because they were tatty - fully knowing they might need to be improved. Bought at auction by postal bid, this antique piece had no <i style="background-color: #fce5cd;">nipples</i> / <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i style="background-color: #eeeeee;">cones</i></span> and the action worked something like an erratic old <b style="font-style: italic;">"HIT'n'MISS" </b>engine. </p><p style="text-align: left;">- Described in the auction as an 1840's English made gun, with Birmingham proofs.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFxY_yawRlhgAvluJCA1I1lkvYBbe47dr_B9be4nwi4NKTJNVnmJO6yLn92Ekk7D6-3WAubAXfX1R8ZMQk5T6VLoPRcGUsfv5VMXWlW2tJ6hIszULRJR5wBzfXke1RBnih77v9YyKCcdWMqtk0YKEUI5jBXRdANF8xNZMh3sdB2PkqREOge7EaqGvlpQ/s275/images%20(22).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFxY_yawRlhgAvluJCA1I1lkvYBbe47dr_B9be4nwi4NKTJNVnmJO6yLn92Ekk7D6-3WAubAXfX1R8ZMQk5T6VLoPRcGUsfv5VMXWlW2tJ6hIszULRJR5wBzfXke1RBnih77v9YyKCcdWMqtk0YKEUI5jBXRdANF8xNZMh3sdB2PkqREOge7EaqGvlpQ/w200-h133/images%20(22).jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"English Guns"</span></i></b> have a reputation for high quality craftmanship .. but I must say that the inner workings under the engraved body & cover of this unit were <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">RUBBISH</span></b> .. crudely cast, unfinished and non-functional. - <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">G</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">R</span><span style="color: red;">E</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">A</span><span style="color: red;">T</span></span></b> <b>Britain</b> at it's best.</p><p style="text-align: left;">This size smooth bore is described as 9 mm, .36 inch caliber or <i><b>gauge</b></i> - or sometimes as <b><span style="font-size: medium;">100 bore</span></b> (- that is, 100 balls of this size may be cast from one pound of Lead) </p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.fourten.org.uk/shotgunbores.html" style="background-color: #fcff01;">http://www.fourten.org.uk/shotgunbores.html</a></p><p style="text-align: left;">I had passed the old pepperbox to fellow pistol club shooter & gunsmith "<b><i>Z</i></b>" for a one week check-up and rejuvenation to it's previous youthful vigor ... Well he's been a busy lad - while the planet spins on it's tilted axis for several moons.</p><p style="text-align: left;">He's done some good machining .. maybe it'll work again some time ...</p><p style="text-align: left;">Fascinating stuff eh ..</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></p>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-25270760946546084712024-02-03T23:00:00.000-08:002024-02-03T23:00:12.825-08:00Cooking Whatever-It-Takes to make Smoke:<p>I'm qualifying to join the kiwi<b> <span style="color: red;">R</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">A</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">I</span><span style="color: #04ff00;">N</span><span style="color: #ff00fe;">B</span><span style="color: #ffa400;">O</span><span style="color: #e69138;">W</span> <span>C</span><span>o</span></b><b><span>m</span></b><b><span>m</span><span>u</span><span>n</span><span>i</span><span>t</span><span>y</span></b> .. Well I'm eating as many different coloured vegetables & fruits every day as I can, for a diverse & healthy diet. - I told my Doctor that all he's got to do is keep me going, on my pension, for the same length of time that I worked and paid taxes - 50 years. (I think he's worried now).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUv8NfzaOmj3VlBpuRkBhyphenhyphenThnvJt_E-33lPnt27D6HhChEDmLIqbPNvYLjnUaDGgtoGwMFMfxvc4P8SCaJTjFONL6PiHSxd8FdBvqRUa9MdemvWs6F5kuJMdpiMLr2pu01i4UjHULxzmyp0o1PGtJaAEGe9NMZlcVOQHC_l2hOeMxfBW8JXOJeCE4CMQ/s305/veggcolour.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="305" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUv8NfzaOmj3VlBpuRkBhyphenhyphenThnvJt_E-33lPnt27D6HhChEDmLIqbPNvYLjnUaDGgtoGwMFMfxvc4P8SCaJTjFONL6PiHSxd8FdBvqRUa9MdemvWs6F5kuJMdpiMLr2pu01i4UjHULxzmyp0o1PGtJaAEGe9NMZlcVOQHC_l2hOeMxfBW8JXOJeCE4CMQ/w400-h216/veggcolour.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Would you like to meet <b><i>'Fly'</i></b> - <b><i>'Boz330'</i></b>- and <b><i>'atom73'</i></b> - These guys are the most <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>OK</b></span> <i>Black</i> <i>Powder Propellant </i>cooks you'll find anywhere in North America-Canada?</p><p><a href="https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?103852-My-homemade-black-powder" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?103852-My-homemade-black-powder</a></p><p>Some excellent directions and clear photos of one powder process - the CIA method on page 3 .. with lots of fun commentary on how to <i>d.i.y</i> make propellant without upsetting your wives, or otherwise endangering yourself - advice and banter to follow .. I know that I've said it before - but I have liked every American that I've got to know .. in contrast with so many miserable old gits I've worked with in England .. but they, poor buggers, - have suffered permanent ill effect from a lifetime wasted in that damp miserable dump.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPU4p6Lgj_f6MGduJGWZk94W1yGNhXkuIw1gFhyphenhyphenYh-5m668ttECx-V_ypYflj1AnFygaRZyn49YITqsbCFkpUeHVcuWUkdyuBFxoTIa1lj2xgTvKXwtz37hhUvKaIZKxnRSFkb9Q-LMqSO06JHAWT_7WzxVBiLCEDUAWMokae6adLfQ64dKtVBe-Na_g/s512/unnamed.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="512" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPU4p6Lgj_f6MGduJGWZk94W1yGNhXkuIw1gFhyphenhyphenYh-5m668ttECx-V_ypYflj1AnFygaRZyn49YITqsbCFkpUeHVcuWUkdyuBFxoTIa1lj2xgTvKXwtz37hhUvKaIZKxnRSFkb9Q-LMqSO06JHAWT_7WzxVBiLCEDUAWMokae6adLfQ64dKtVBe-Na_g/w400-h155/unnamed.png" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>BLACK POWDER .. The Expedient CIA Method:</b></span><div>It seems this method was typically just stolen by the <b>CIA</b> from The Frankford Arsenal who had published it in 1967. - It involves dissolving the potassium nitrate as a saturated solution in boiling hot water, mixing the sulfer & charcoal together in a little hot alcohol then stir it all together and 'flush it' with very cold alcohol from the freezer to precipitate out the KNO<span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span> into intimate contact .. There is much less milling required and you are safely mixing it all <b>wet ..</b> read all about it here ..</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.skylighter.com/blogs/how-to-make-fireworks/cia-black-powder-deja-vu" style="background-color: #ff00fe;">https://www.skylighter.com/blogs/how-to-make-fireworks/cia-black-powder-deja-vu</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Why? - Because it's getting harder to buy powders from shops and costs are rising fast because the Government wants to <span style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">STOP</span><span> all legal shooting .. while "reducing prison populations". - Get in a few extra bulk packs of toilet paper for charring in paint cans eh.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjj4oYnNFJ5pJWVB1iFoAqhI_Qv6c8fYFm7RKQKSlrdDDxDqfffWuzRvL6oa0LkaQBkqNMmsD_FAK2dTA8lf2Z9PDtySAmSTyZdMeqrVEUO9dzhtBSxvB_igOp0L4uNnlnsSZjTSDQEyLnSCKmF2S7suwIPmjCUFk0MMjHrfyC3DfrOg6svBXlLJ4QBA/s275/bog.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjj4oYnNFJ5pJWVB1iFoAqhI_Qv6c8fYFm7RKQKSlrdDDxDqfffWuzRvL6oa0LkaQBkqNMmsD_FAK2dTA8lf2Z9PDtySAmSTyZdMeqrVEUO9dzhtBSxvB_igOp0L4uNnlnsSZjTSDQEyLnSCKmF2S7suwIPmjCUFk0MMjHrfyC3DfrOg6svBXlLJ4QBA/w320-h213/bog.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>Western Governments Economic Futures Looking 'Rosy'..</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Do <b><span style="font-size: medium;">you</span></b> want law abiding people banned from having any guns while gang members ride around kicking-in heads and shooting at anyone they fancy?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Our "<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Democracy</span></b>" has totally failed and is wholly corrupted by the wealthy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">These <i>democratic </i>rulers are <i><u>supposed</u></i> to <b>represent the people </b>- did <i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">You</span></b> </i><u style="font-weight: bold;">want</u> 500,000 dead Ukrainians - with as many dreadfully injured?</div><div style="text-align: left;">- Do <b><i>You</i></b> want Israel to destroy the Palestinian's Gaza homes and to slaughter some 29,000 mostly women, children and old men?</div><div style="text-align: left;">- Is it your priority to attack Russia and destroy their economy? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">- Do <b><i>You</i></b> want World War <b>3</b> ?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">- Does your Government neglect Health Care, Education, Housing, & Law Enforcement?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What makes these millionaires think they can just ignore what is needed?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Is there a huge <i>'disconnect</i>' between people and their Government?</div><div><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>.. The answer is an UPPER HOUSE formed as a CITIZENS ASSEMBLY.</b></span></p><p><b>- NOT a fucking "House of Lords"</b></p><p>The will of the people.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5w3hdku50UA1RGQ1KjWbq07vlHiAKM9JRSE749_BFMWjelnkKyvdm_XmsyT1bmOhU7MpLC2jfV6MbrgW3jdqW4F6HVGsrut5ttqbaTA49xjRs468fGSnn6HD8r4mV0zOCok355u_Mc6ucunp7xtUHl-wZmR6foqoIGQcHdG4RqWjMOiUtP_CUgbHQcQ/s2015/BP%20Mesh%20sizes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2015" data-original-width="1504" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5w3hdku50UA1RGQ1KjWbq07vlHiAKM9JRSE749_BFMWjelnkKyvdm_XmsyT1bmOhU7MpLC2jfV6MbrgW3jdqW4F6HVGsrut5ttqbaTA49xjRs468fGSnn6HD8r4mV0zOCok355u_Mc6ucunp7xtUHl-wZmR6foqoIGQcHdG4RqWjMOiUtP_CUgbHQcQ/w478-h640/BP%20Mesh%20sizes.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>MESH SIZES FOR GRADING BP Propellants:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>ex Internet ex Hogdons?</b></div></span><p><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Don't smoke any exploding cigars from the CIA ...</span></p></div></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-90693910071443992422024-01-29T19:40:00.000-08:002024-01-29T19:40:48.096-08:00PINFIRE Revolvers - Cartridges - & CHIMNEY Adaptors For Percussion Caps:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2014" data-original-width="3103" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir9P_E-KKcOClrWlCPjozHhlDb6qkqwL_G-L-N1p57EEGU_zOV1zK61WsBrranC5PPaHpwORWW_iGqPA2E6xJ1de-uWU9cexebvbF5qINe3vsekIfbaF-unWzslw6VlYTqjLbE4MAebRS98G9nfDTbtHc-ynjdqEohhkOqXT1LsSCij2YThEZnH_mkHA/w640-h416/revright.jpg" width="640" /><span style="text-align: left;">Obscure stuff this .. an </span><i style="text-align: left;">open-top,</i><span style="text-align: left;"> antique </span><i style="text-align: left;">banger</i><span style="text-align: left;"> PIN FIRE </span><b style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i>1854</i> Model</b><span style="text-align: left;"> type -</span><i style="text-align: left;"><b>'Non-Atributed'</b></i><span style="text-align: left;"> - indeed NO visible maker proofmarks or other stamping/engraving - nor any front sight - possibly the barrel has been shortened. A complete 9mm 'Plain Jane Pinfire' .. missing lanyard ring, loading-gate, extractor rod and had a broken trigger return spring. - However the double action only hammer functions smoothly and the rifled bore is remarkably clean & shiny for 160 odd years neglect.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ha0IupKgFjhXE_kcBFnUbexszobcDz5t7VPP172itPX2L2v4BDZCoCBtAYy1ZwBwgPIGDei7-0Y-mgDHYWXwTrgNB4_2n4aqZquLTXNkSTJffkdNcnHqpNGSaSNgoktQRSeqfGCT39ZtFTO6jnNtpCnzQKT06upNRLgm63oCn2epjptYo2_kV9WW6w/s2395/pinbore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2395" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ha0IupKgFjhXE_kcBFnUbexszobcDz5t7VPP172itPX2L2v4BDZCoCBtAYy1ZwBwgPIGDei7-0Y-mgDHYWXwTrgNB4_2n4aqZquLTXNkSTJffkdNcnHqpNGSaSNgoktQRSeqfGCT39ZtFTO6jnNtpCnzQKT06upNRLgm63oCn2epjptYo2_kV9WW6w/s320/pinbore.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>These old <i>'System Lefaucheux'</i> revolvers come to market cheaply around the world - perhaps costing a mere tenth of an original <i style="font-weight: bold;">Colt. </i>- Are they <b><span style="font-size: medium;">so</span></b> badly made and disfunctional that a <i style="font-weight: bold;">Colt </i>is worth <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>ten times as much</b></span>? - Perhaps unpopular because they are thought impossible to shoot .. their ammunition is unavailable - while powder & ball just <i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"can't work"</span></i> in these <i>oddballs</i> ? - It might not help that a lot of folk can't pronounce the word <i style="font-weight: bold;">"Lefaucheux" </i>..</p><p>These <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">'</span></i></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>pinfires' </i></b></span>were advanced designs in their time, and were made all over the place in the <b><i>Old World</i></b> .. Belgium, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Holland, UK. Identification is complicated by a large range of calibers 7mm, 9mm, 11mm, 12mm, 15mm - single action or double, - folding trigger models or fixed with trigger guards, - open top or closed, - round barrels , octagonal or even 'break<b>-</b>action'.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="205" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3pTfGWSKklfIR-RIhIwrNrxuTuxw68hKcPMF-15QWLVnCKOaA0dxf-3qkHmbm4zaLYWI-E-qEWMQnEj23UP8OywNRlJYDzV8Kwe2w5w-JloY7sdzCM_mOFEZ1xmwL9-rkjW8AAS0GdcttUZCkZ6wV9RvzP_paLHMAv_iaBbLhB_U1F1-2uGRSrqL6Bg/w333-h400/download%20(5).png" width="333" /></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Pinfire Cartridges Use Percussion Caps and Black Powder <i>INTERNALLY</i>:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></b><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">As well as progressive development over time - the <b><i>patented </i></b>revolvers were made as distinctly separate versions for both civilian and military markets. </span><b style="text-align: left;"><i>Eugene</i></b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><i>Lefaucheux</i></b><span style="text-align: left;"> (the son) was commercially a very busy lad with an active mind and frequent new ideas. Plus there were many "copies" made.</span></div><div>I think the main advantage over muzzleloading for this gun, with it's <i style="color: #2b00fe; font-weight: bold;">self contained cartridge</i> was it's convenience, - it was <span><u>faster</u><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>to load, and is nearly <i style="color: #2b00fe; font-weight: bold;">WATERPROOF</i>. - Depending on proper care in assembly & usage .. these obsolete metalic cartridges would have proven <span style="font-size: medium;">reliable</span> even in the wettest and most humid of conditions - given <i><u>some</u></i> attempt by the user to protect them from prolonged immersion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb47gZ89aBbjqYcw_J3OQTi0DfG62D3XfYn-P0Sju7ZO-hx7zA092sJMXykn2oqv84bk_2ThYkyqRe16LNCCv9PKcRsbWj3cGtCdg9L9dqCm2QvcqW1hxKtbAG8CVDSnSxTxSL2Riv2Yf0v3nGm0EQSzdmirLFfiZyb-PyAKGtzy5Nsqvy3P17IKmnGQ/s240/download%20(36).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="240" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb47gZ89aBbjqYcw_J3OQTi0DfG62D3XfYn-P0Sju7ZO-hx7zA092sJMXykn2oqv84bk_2ThYkyqRe16LNCCv9PKcRsbWj3cGtCdg9L9dqCm2QvcqW1hxKtbAG8CVDSnSxTxSL2Riv2Yf0v3nGm0EQSzdmirLFfiZyb-PyAKGtzy5Nsqvy3P17IKmnGQ/w640-h560/download%20(36).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEO26FxLWkt4_6wEjDUzOK30jE0oMKIucbHFx_nanrzsrT9XvMNakltFZPVhItw7VTiKNSX4YJYseMOG-aDcL5xmHeGwScSJ06xqeyeQgL0l-3vhkzmFoHN1vLTq6FHQRpKNaZNWQrgKnoL2MB7Us9lqTttiBkIiEatyRfVtJ9XnCbyLeHoEnMAufPTQ/w273-h400/270.jpg" width="273" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>These Were Perhaps THE FIRST Metallic Self-Contained Rounds:</b></div><p><span>Obsolete <span style="font-family: inherit;">technology from two centuries ago certainly .. but even a <i>Mesolithic age</i> rock will still smash a skull after 10,000 years - remember that 620,000 Americans were killed in their Civil War .. fought with old fashioned gunpowder and sabers.</span></span></p><p><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip7XbvmKeURt6_9fhJqFmCFOM2hOvMyXCxynRTG6F8f-6NwCh5JVw_BG68gPg_uZqnoUXbfsi_L4JRWXW1GpFFzVVHrn2GTQWcFdstnAH0-iI_hi1AJeiDZUL9SuR-8UohU1jyxXhM1BfwtAbCvM7yAVg0vdiu2K0wcFx32ApR0MPPobcLLvtLRl1eaw/s1024/9mmpinfire.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="892" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip7XbvmKeURt6_9fhJqFmCFOM2hOvMyXCxynRTG6F8f-6NwCh5JVw_BG68gPg_uZqnoUXbfsi_L4JRWXW1GpFFzVVHrn2GTQWcFdstnAH0-iI_hi1AJeiDZUL9SuR-8UohU1jyxXhM1BfwtAbCvM7yAVg0vdiu2K0wcFx32ApR0MPPobcLLvtLRl1eaw/w558-h640/9mmpinfire.webp" width="558" /></a></span></div><span><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Historic Data For ELEY 9mm Pinfire Cartridge - (Dims. in inches).</b></div></b></span><p>- Here's a video of a youtube joker <i>Rakum Projects </i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">making and firing</span> 9mm <u>Pinfire</u> cartridges from 9x19mm NATO brass ..</p><p>_<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=centerfire+cartridge+to+pinfire&rlz=1C1ONGRenNZ933NZ933&oq=centerfire+cartridge+to+pinfire&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigAdIBCjE4ODYwajBqMTWoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4a14b075,vid:2cVc34vOtAs,st:0" style="background-color: #04ff00;">https://www.google.com/search?q=centerfire+cartridge+to+pinfire&rlz=1C1ONGRenNZ933NZ933&oq=centerfire+cartridge+to+pinfire&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigAdIBCjE4ODYwajBqMTWoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:4a14b075,vid:2cVc34vOtAs,st:0</a></p><p>10 grains of <b><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">BP</span></b> <i>antique</i> <i>propellant </i>seems to be the dose for a 9mm pinfire .. behind a lead bullet. - The PINFIRE CARTRIDGE really is something of a side alley in the progression from the beginings, to the modern self contained cartridge. - But, in it's era - it was invented at a time before brass cartridges were able to be industrially drawn from well formulated brass sheet .. and <b style="font-size: large;">it worked. - </b>The earliest rounds<b style="font-size: large;"> </b><span style="font-size: large;">originally</span><b style="font-size: large;"> </b>used<b style="font-size: large;"> </b><b>paper/card cartridges </b>with metal bases<b style="font-size: large;"> </b>- For some 30-40 turbulant years, the European pinfires competed with the other developing ideas.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmMPZumqAc0cXjjIYGN3ngcSOfZy6kspG6S8l2N4UTqP-3u2CCQ40pOoh-NXss26g-ILxH142EuUFaydn_K9QHTRE_mC8DjILKhrjXzf7eqkH0gYXcz6dqU3feihfHBkHsMVizA2mP66aw638hfIm7IRrhh68DdoQJ1wUQK2aXG9BorqQcSQh0ry7EXQ/s690/chimney%20adaptors.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="690" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmMPZumqAc0cXjjIYGN3ngcSOfZy6kspG6S8l2N4UTqP-3u2CCQ40pOoh-NXss26g-ILxH142EuUFaydn_K9QHTRE_mC8DjILKhrjXzf7eqkH0gYXcz6dqU3feihfHBkHsMVizA2mP66aw638hfIm7IRrhh68DdoQJ1wUQK2aXG9BorqQcSQh0ry7EXQ/w400-h266/chimney%20adaptors.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Now These Are Interesting (& obscure).</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Iron (steel) Chamber 'CHIMNEY' ADAPTORS to Percussion ..</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>- not all <u>that</u> <i>weird ..</i></b><b><i>"cheminee" </i>is a french word used for a BP <i>'Nipple'</i>.</b></div></b><p>Nice article about <i><span style="font-size: medium;">chamber adaptors .. </span></i>to enable a pinfire revolver to function as muzzle loading cap'n'ball Percussion Revolver.</p><p><a href="https://freemycollection.com/?page=articles/pinfireauxiliaryadapter" style="background-color: #ff00fe;">https://freemycollection.com/?page=articles/pinfireauxiliaryadapter</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLOlSURGDDXoJpMKvrbXw9iPENJ2yROQsH9rdIqNM-gBGlFboLVFhN0glwOjd0zF375AF0z33bTs_m5mfs4mV6qFmoDnDHxMOJH-gZCT4rGQf8rbwRRjyKVquuzk0Zf7pU9xC5eVbJJgf-DTHReF-JwBcGQ33Fma2jpZEz313K5RE8h99yqEKxllOW8g/s239/chimney-pinfire-percussion.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="239" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLOlSURGDDXoJpMKvrbXw9iPENJ2yROQsH9rdIqNM-gBGlFboLVFhN0glwOjd0zF375AF0z33bTs_m5mfs4mV6qFmoDnDHxMOJH-gZCT4rGQf8rbwRRjyKVquuzk0Zf7pU9xC5eVbJJgf-DTHReF-JwBcGQ33Fma2jpZEz313K5RE8h99yqEKxllOW8g/s1600/chimney-pinfire-percussion.jpeg" width="239" /></a></div>- Back in The Day you might have found these "Chimney Adaptors" for use when the proper pinfire cartridges were <i>unobtainable - </i>such as in Civil War times down south in America.<div>- Going-back to an older <b>obsolete </b>system can be an <i>advanced</i> idea when the circumstances prevent supply of the latest and newest advances .. some old time Frontiersmen usefully stayed with their <i>FLINTLOCKS </i>for<i> </i>decades into percussion and early cartridge times.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></div><div><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">For anyone looking for rabbit-holes to view .. here a fantastic spread of odd cartridges that were attempted at least once ..</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><p><a href="https://cartridge-corner.com/rimiden.htm" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://cartridge-corner.com/rimiden.htm</a></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-72252886580537823322024-01-24T16:00:00.000-08:002024-01-24T16:00:57.453-08:00You need good TIMING .. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sadly I am reminded today that it is two years since <b style="font-size: large;">MIKE LODER</b> died and we lost a fine NZ spokesperson and advocate of lawful shooters rights:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj76tMY6idFXBV8n1lR46tMppvVQ0lESV-AogWCIDiOU4nsDjB8U4SEgZRpBnJ0z3uKTIwUpKWV-YmsqILvpC9KQDhdos7UAKbAjytFXR5qGj35D4Vk89pC0hSp5igS_AXA5DiLtxeeHsJ5d7ZIyTxhbg7rhmI_JeYUR2X_2HoGsUKd9JhwCRnJXyZ4rw/s400/my%201859%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj76tMY6idFXBV8n1lR46tMppvVQ0lESV-AogWCIDiOU4nsDjB8U4SEgZRpBnJ0z3uKTIwUpKWV-YmsqILvpC9KQDhdos7UAKbAjytFXR5qGj35D4Vk89pC0hSp5igS_AXA5DiLtxeeHsJ5d7ZIyTxhbg7rhmI_JeYUR2X_2HoGsUKd9JhwCRnJXyZ4rw/w640-h480/my%201859%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><i>TICKA TICKA GOOD TIMING</i></b> .. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=modfq47onwU" style="background-color: #04ff00;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=modfq47onwU</a> <div> <div>I am SO frigging bored with taking my original five inch <b style="font-style: italic;">'1849 Pocket' </b>apart .. all those fiddly little screws diving into the dust under the coffee table - Maybe I <i>am</i> making progress, as the revolver does everything <i>right</i> - <b>three clicks that "spell <i>Colt</i>"<span style="font-size: large;">😏</span> <span style="color: #b45f06;">(<span style="font-size: medium;">C.Z.C</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>(CZColt)</i></span>) </span>- </b><i>until</i> I refit the cylinder. Then it locks solid. This <i><u>maybe</u></i> seems to be because the hand is trying to revolve the cylinder, while it is still locked, before the bolt drops .. because it is too long?<p></p><p>Should I shorten the hand until the bolt can withdraw or will it then not fully rotate the cylinder?</p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">I need a </span><b style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Colt</i></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> expert .. here </span><b style="font-size: x-small;">NOW </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">would be good.</span></p><p><i><b>"Snapper</b></i><b><i>"</i></b> from snafu on Youtube in America .. who also likes expensive old <b><i>Colt </i></b>rust that goes boom - confirms that the hand may be too long .. or it <i>could</i> be a malfunction-disconnect of the 'spring-leg' of the 'bolt' - hammer-cam interface .. <span><b><i>or</i></b></span> ...</p><p>It all seemed to function somehow <u><b>before</b></u> I stripped it and cleaned-out two squashed dead percussion caps and some gritty black'n'greasy stuff. - I admit that I have deburred various bits and oiled it and have done much thinking - so likely it <b>is </b>all my fault (.. as my <i><b>ex</b></i> would say).</p><p> - I never had this trouble with any of my <i style="font-weight: bold;">Glocks</i>.</p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">May I introduce you to Mr.'Old Ranger' - clicking his <b><i>Colt's</i></b> notches in public ..</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpbhxvFNxbY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpbhxvFNxbY</a></span></p><p><span>My latest disaster is that the three wee SCREWS holding the TriggerGuard in place and thus working against the Mainspring Pressure via the Backstrap, <b>are NOT</b> holding - being corroded & worn-out I guess.</span></p><p><span>Where to go from here? New screws that are longer and full diameter from somewhere ?? I'm exhausted, depressed & perplexed.</span></p><p><span>Latest news from the Middle East Israeli <b>ethnic</b> <b>cleansing </b>slaughter (25,000 dead Palestineans so far) of Gaza is - that we, New Zealand are sending half of our trained Army<i> "Defence Forces' </i>..<i> </i><b style="font-size: large;"><i>SIX</i> </b>soldiers - to help U S attack Yemeni forces - to stop <u>them</u> from slowing the re-supply of IDF prison guards, who are running-out of 2,000 pound bombs & other ordnance.</span></p><p><span></span></p><p><span>'Your country, oops - <i>America</i> needs you' - all six.</span></p><div>Good Luck with that men .. (women & non-binary <i>others </i>included<i> </i>naturally). Where <u><i><b>are</b></i></u> our SAS ?.</div><div><br /></div><div>NZ should return <b><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><i style="background-color: #cccccc;">BlackRock's</i></span></b> 2 Billion Dollars NZ green investment - as they will need it for their "Reconstruction of Ukraine" .. whatever is left of it.</div><p><span><i style="font-weight: bold;">Marty K.</i></span></p></div></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-72939548531884463212024-01-20T10:57:00.000-08:002024-01-20T10:57:39.381-08:00Old Time GUNS in AUSTRALIA & Good Times:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTLWPcYBY2M6VsLgID4KRNWg1x7nX3yiJrwe0Y65KwQU9FkqpkxanC_k0EafwPhIRpFiiRJelDGUqd6Ds-eY725FY3uKNjtarRPU7Nqa97Nnx-K9VEwwLLEMAYObcrfHitvUSDMhPnDmO49JqhW-6F7mGP1jMAaNwrbA4q-__o5XG89nP-YxKvpwIeAA/s2649/flowering.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1472" data-original-width="2649" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTLWPcYBY2M6VsLgID4KRNWg1x7nX3yiJrwe0Y65KwQU9FkqpkxanC_k0EafwPhIRpFiiRJelDGUqd6Ds-eY725FY3uKNjtarRPU7Nqa97Nnx-K9VEwwLLEMAYObcrfHitvUSDMhPnDmO49JqhW-6F7mGP1jMAaNwrbA4q-__o5XG89nP-YxKvpwIeAA/w640-h356/flowering.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I've taken-up 'FLOWER' ARRANGING:</b></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_JLivdoN9pHg7pQueY1YK6fj_q9UDLQrLIGfsR5d1l5U74l1tHrLwxe5va711GU1p-4m4wc0MRwnUca1pPXCZl5j3QbcQlz919FtOQnEnitd1YyLUebrUIqdpPao5V1-e6hdl6ZA1TMxa2o0psm_hTbRfFeeKgzmCVek0Q6iizzCkBAp6o0tl_ndrIQ/s1028/miner's%20pistol.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1028" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_JLivdoN9pHg7pQueY1YK6fj_q9UDLQrLIGfsR5d1l5U74l1tHrLwxe5va711GU1p-4m4wc0MRwnUca1pPXCZl5j3QbcQlz919FtOQnEnitd1YyLUebrUIqdpPao5V1-e6hdl6ZA1TMxa2o0psm_hTbRfFeeKgzmCVek0Q6iizzCkBAp6o0tl_ndrIQ/w400-h195/miner's%20pistol.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>Smooth Bore, Box Lock, Low-Cost </b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>Belgian Made "MINERS PISTOL"</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">- these cheaply made canon barrel pistols were sold as protection for 5/- (five shillings) with a bag of powder plus shot, to </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">New Chum Australian</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"> gold miners coming off the boats.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; text-align: start;"><div class="col-md-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 585px;"><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Me</span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;"> </b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">and now 77y.o </span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;"> '<i>Prickles</i>' </b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">used to fly the ditch every year </span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">on pilgrimage </i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 400;">to SMITHS SPORTS STORE in George Street, Sydney - and to the Horsley Park Gun Shop. - You could find gunstuff bargains there not available in New Zealand</span></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyf_IqbuKpGbmG9vW3C1VggDfplaXb87dgTafknx-gj-iiwUXxk3zj2cNVxq0akKCGZruDt09Z92Y-JQT7urRkU9gLwaxtHDz7n2MEXWhFtcw6U8JuO1s-hV4rFzJiLi-PsFHNo2mWMart4hr2xSLbMbGcmfgN4Yvs4W323et3GprmuAZC10BvJVLAMQ/s2538/no-5-lee-enfield-bayonet-jungle-carbine_44607_pic1_size4.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2538" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyf_IqbuKpGbmG9vW3C1VggDfplaXb87dgTafknx-gj-iiwUXxk3zj2cNVxq0akKCGZruDt09Z92Y-JQT7urRkU9gLwaxtHDz7n2MEXWhFtcw6U8JuO1s-hV4rFzJiLi-PsFHNo2mWMart4hr2xSLbMbGcmfgN4Yvs4W323et3GprmuAZC10BvJVLAMQ/s320/no-5-lee-enfield-bayonet-jungle-carbine_44607_pic1_size4.webp" width="252" /></a></div><b style="color: #333333;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>No5 BIG 'ring' needed to fit over "Flash Hider"</b></div></b><span><div style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"> .. e.g a BAYONET for a Lee Enfield <b><i>Jungle</i></b> <b><i>Carbine</i></b> - one I bought from Smiths for a few bucks, from a box </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;">full </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">of them, after Prickles kept kicking my foot. - I should have bought the bloody lot, as I later got $450 for it .. more than you would have paid for the </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">SMLE</i><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i></span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">rifle it fits.</span></div></span></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghR_K0sg08bBq24IxENZUAcDVH13myZn8b_JKdJoElfhCsYFuYJ33GwlxE_2tPNA-M-hEM6rAWxXKSZVmCsCgrwpayBlRXD4I6I8JSVzvgHRseRIM59jdyCr_wNIw8zJwP7us5VHJLP9DvsaoXxA1HUFJjvieLg59rKH-2AxRJOSS3VBUHI6SmoCFrlg/s130/images%20(1).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="130" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghR_K0sg08bBq24IxENZUAcDVH13myZn8b_JKdJoElfhCsYFuYJ33GwlxE_2tPNA-M-hEM6rAWxXKSZVmCsCgrwpayBlRXD4I6I8JSVzvgHRseRIM59jdyCr_wNIw8zJwP7us5VHJLP9DvsaoXxA1HUFJjvieLg59rKH-2AxRJOSS3VBUHI6SmoCFrlg/s1600/images%20(1).png" width="130" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>Prickles</b></i> would lead me to every Gun Shop in the Sydney area (and Melbourne) hopping on'n'off buses - where we'd spend hours chatting to the occupants and drinking free coffees. - Each venue took a whole day as he was physically UNABLE to pass any pub without going in for a pint or three of <b>VB</b>. </span></span></div><div class="description" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">We were once there in Sydney at the same time as the </span><b><i style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: red;">Gay &</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><span style="color: red;">Lesbian</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></i></b><span><b><i><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: red;">M</span></i></b><span><b><i><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: red;">ardi Gras</span></i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> ... you can bet we spoke in deep gruff voices on that trip. - One year we 'did' both the Sydney Gun Show and the Melbourne Gun Show the following week. - We had a great time in one Melbourne Gun Shop with the owner - chatting for hours only to learn on the news that he was a gangland criminal <b><span style="font-size: medium;">murdered</span></b> a couple of weeks later.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- We used to "<b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">do</span></i></b>" the Lightning Ridge OPAL OPEN Pistol Matches for it's paper-bark barbecue, and loved that Outback Hospitality.</span></span></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtHt9AYDqlKzF6xXfsFgWOm0UArJ7-T3UgHsl26XQQmyafKJ6e6wgcDMfF1-WS0_VtbcUAe0xZlkyXw8PFQLzWQw1-q_u1g8ceJdZTjnBN3vaT56PJxLOzl1OYyzft2pS4LPMqT1U9xe72i1oq0Xj4bm5HLGPI9xkYRf_lvOmbSG1TgTFfqH_eRzkt7w/s740/amigos%20castle.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="740" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtHt9AYDqlKzF6xXfsFgWOm0UArJ7-T3UgHsl26XQQmyafKJ6e6wgcDMfF1-WS0_VtbcUAe0xZlkyXw8PFQLzWQw1-q_u1g8ceJdZTjnBN3vaT56PJxLOzl1OYyzft2pS4LPMqT1U9xe72i1oq0Xj4bm5HLGPI9xkYRf_lvOmbSG1TgTFfqH_eRzkt7w/w400-h266/amigos%20castle.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div>I see that 75 year old Vittorio Stefanato who built his Castle on his claim at the Lightning Ridge - has gone down for 14 years for murdering a woman, by shooting</span></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> her, for demanding money.</span></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">- Kiwi Prime Minister 'Piggy' Muldoon used to reckon that every kiwi leaving NZ for Australia raised the IQ of both countries ..</span></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I took-over my <b><i>S&W 610 </i>10mm <i>revolver</i> </b>one year to use in a match - and the Sydney cops gave me a 30 Day CARRY PERMIT on landing .. but when I arrived back at Christchurch the Immigration Officer stepped back and started to tremble, nearly fainting when I told him that I was carrying a firearm and would he please call for the airport Cops. - the cop arrived and said .. "Hello Marty - been expecting you mate" ..</span></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUuMABFJ90Y10pOuaHIAdKdi9upvU23CWu7JWT6x3LrF0zQbkx1vrYJ20nd0r5tjpBAnm42ojf5Gl9o0J6kuY4z9n1FBC0kkIG_psCO2B4zvH533xQqLWJC3OyV1oZYE1BmhnVAumzct9OZmZDJO5HmodgWXnI5OG013mjYw8OkaG2wMXBbdceF2jVpg/s800/HJF20-SW-610-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="800" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUuMABFJ90Y10pOuaHIAdKdi9upvU23CWu7JWT6x3LrF0zQbkx1vrYJ20nd0r5tjpBAnm42ojf5Gl9o0J6kuY4z9n1FBC0kkIG_psCO2B4zvH533xQqLWJC3OyV1oZYE1BmhnVAumzct9OZmZDJO5HmodgWXnI5OG013mjYw8OkaG2wMXBbdceF2jVpg/s320/HJF20-SW-610-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1852 William HenryWright (another Pom) took charge of Mount Alexander goldfield in Victoria at a salary of £900 and set up Central Camp near Castlemaine to control a population of some 25,000. His staff was inexperienced and his duties 'onerous and varied' with the 'most inadequate means either in material or men' - but he worked so tirelessly and effectively that Lieutenant-Governor </span><a href="https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/la-trobe-charles-joseph-2334" style="background-color: transparent; color: #905d27; font-family: inherit; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="La Trobe, Charles Joseph (1801 - 1875)">Charles La Trobe</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> appointed him Chief Commissioner of the goldfields on 1 May. He warned La Trobe of the defects of the 1851 licence system and opposed the compulsory licence hunts which were provocative to the diggers; however, his flexibility kept the situation</span></span></div><div class="description" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">under control.</span></div></div></div></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; 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font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">- Things were so bad on the Mount Alexander diggings in 1852, that the Gold Commissioner (who had no troopers to pursue villains with) </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">authorised <u>all</u> to shoot on sight anyone who tried to enter their tents</span><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></i></span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> - How different this ruling from the Commissioner was compared with today, when politicians and the judiciary sternly inform the public that they have <b>no</b> <b>right</b> <b>to self-protection</b> against criminals and their twisted reasoning has effectively succeeded in disarming the lawabiding citizens of Australia.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Hmm. - Well here we have an MP and lawyer Golriz Ghahraman so bloody irrational as to think she'd get away with repeatedly shoplifting thousands of bucks worth of gear from shops ..</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">How times have changed eh. Women with penises, Men having babies .. MP's as thick as sh*t.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></span></p><div><br /></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-11664211298179246292024-01-14T18:04:00.000-08:002024-01-15T00:12:24.660-08:00Firearms Registration versus Law Enforcement:<p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> New Zealand </span><span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">POLICE </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Safer Communities Together </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">today, 15/01/24 - report that less than 10% of licensed firearms owners have so far registered their lawful property with the Firearm's Registry .. <b>Link:</b></span></span></p><p><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?pc=carousel-about-en#inbox/FMfcgzGwJmDMSbvBGVVcNskSWgrwrJfj">https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?pc=carousel-about-en#inbox/FMfcgzGwJmDMSbvBGVVcNskSWgrwrJfj</a></p><p>Despite this logically indicating that <u style="font-weight: bold;">more</u> than 90% of lawful gun owners have <b>NOT</b> registered their guns after <b>seven months</b> - Police claim that <span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #ecf5fa; color: #303030; font-size: 13px;">“Along with preventing the sale and purchase of stolen firearms, the Registry provides a better way for Police to trace where firearms used by criminals have come from.”</span></p><p><span style="color: #303030;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Can some expert explain to me their claim of - how having some 100,000 firearms registered </span><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"prevents the sale and purchase of stolen guns"</span><span style="background-color: white;"> or - how it makes tracing them, 'better'?</span></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fcff01; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 12pt;">“The Thorpe Report in 1997 stated that unless there is 90 per cent compliance it is never going to work."</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG-EPMttCxbO07SVV2tAmSyOoW8bFyQmFq2jtqR0l3DT3kynj89vtMc0O2p1OytbRZmqf_R0s_qmH1I0cBGXAeAbvBIZZ8ZRRwceii912WpAbcVRwnQlmq0O7ACz3y1zdzuLxUN31r-qj_-WW_EeLAXizoZmUyjtTjW_IoRwSnscO5rdW-lVMOvkoVBQ/s650/507887.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="650" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG-EPMttCxbO07SVV2tAmSyOoW8bFyQmFq2jtqR0l3DT3kynj89vtMc0O2p1OytbRZmqf_R0s_qmH1I0cBGXAeAbvBIZZ8ZRRwceii912WpAbcVRwnQlmq0O7ACz3y1zdzuLxUN31r-qj_-WW_EeLAXizoZmUyjtTjW_IoRwSnscO5rdW-lVMOvkoVBQ/w640-h354/507887.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The NZ Government allocated an initial cost of $208 MILLION to this register - I estimate that on past performance the TRUE cost will likely be at least two-three times that. However NZ Police claim the cost was only $10 M. </span></span></p></span><p></p><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now - I don't want to be 'judgemental' - but if NZ police were to spend e.g. S10 M on addressing gang crime directly - by arresting and charging criminals and taking them into custody while awaiting their trials .. OR for police to spend the same $10 M on entering the details of guns owned by KNOWN lawful Licence Holders. - Which might be more effective in reducing NZ Crime?</span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></span></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-46132697032955372772024-01-12T15:02:00.000-08:002024-01-12T15:08:16.556-08:00England "AT WAR" with Houthies in YEMEN .. Bowing To Our Nuclear Masters:<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Joe Biden bragged .. "The Ruble will be rubble".. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBeob8B417Eq5poggt8jAhixeBaAdbELl5-XXdxaGXbCnLuHgukuT2rQrwKWNCzlCtHoCHmAob6bnsJgP7JoFWAaAWr9CaZ1J_F8Yxvukjz8ELpVMM1XLkVXRHZY_boiSdeM8-gK7P4umEqIoX6pCrzLSHXz4X7lwkgzAOh1Iw5h5a7WzLhei1i4Ktw/s300/download%20(34).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfBeob8B417Eq5poggt8jAhixeBaAdbELl5-XXdxaGXbCnLuHgukuT2rQrwKWNCzlCtHoCHmAob6bnsJgP7JoFWAaAWr9CaZ1J_F8Yxvukjz8ELpVMM1XLkVXRHZY_boiSdeM8-gK7P4umEqIoX6pCrzLSHXz4X7lwkgzAOh1Iw5h5a7WzLhei1i4Ktw/w200-h112/download%20(34).jpeg" width="200" /></a></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Do you reckon King Charles III is smart - he certainly <b>is</b> rich? - Anyone with a brother who likes little girls and an uncle who buggered little boys (- Mountbatton of India - who's wife was shagging Nehru) <i>must</i> be smart? - If you have an Irish accent - <i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"Charles the turd"</span></i> of New Zealand - He is <i>OUR</i> King. - When he was married to Princess Diana, didn't he want to be a pair of Queen Camilla's knickers, or a tampon? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_R8BaYH3RW-ZASVN1j4l2ny19A8UZxIraSCoupvxXKS2GaFAzKtbEgO3fsNhm4FKoM4U-NJH64cIcYN1JsFu3KOn82lZavih1L2d440MA0H0lLMCscdpayW5SRnc3189uQItilDYLWrhlK04H_TEUWMFz1-jHASplegWFT9_7N9cuH-soqpidhOfdw/s259/download%20(35).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_R8BaYH3RW-ZASVN1j4l2ny19A8UZxIraSCoupvxXKS2GaFAzKtbEgO3fsNhm4FKoM4U-NJH64cIcYN1JsFu3KOn82lZavih1L2d440MA0H0lLMCscdpayW5SRnc3189uQItilDYLWrhlK04H_TEUWMFz1-jHASplegWFT9_7N9cuH-soqpidhOfdw/w200-h150/download%20(35).jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Are you a 'Royalist'?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Have we joined <b>BRICS</b> yet? - We <i><b><u><span style="font-size: medium;">NEED</span></u></b></i> to cuddle-up to the sensible Chinese, who <u>already</u> are our biggest customers.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- On UK television <b>'BLACKADDER'</b> - both <i>Blackadder and Baldrick </i>sometimes claimed <b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">" - I have a cunning plan." </span><span>-</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span></i></b>I believe that the demented war criminals in Washington, & London, and their nutters in the PENTAGON, Virginia - have a<b> cunning Plan 'A'</b> to deal with the U S' massive <b>35</b> <b>Trillion </b>Dollar DEBT. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- They intend to attack both CHINA and RUSSIA when the U S economic situation becomes too obvious - launching a massive nuclear strike to destroy <u>both</u> rivals, - this would cancel all their debts - while they imagine they will then assume world mastery, - curing <span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Global Warming</span> by a <span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'nuclear</span> <span>winter'</span></span> - and fix the planet's issues of overpopulation permanently. - There is <u>no</u> <b>Plan 'B'.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOeDtew_1bvaYW6Eepfir4Lho1IAXAy_MT0mQQrd9wZ7eE07gsJg4_0FFUoMY-Rl2dsMgl8Fiu3YPhk4mFFBpmMGUL-tX6tFXXldtiQ4kD0HlhJSx-hg11203eRLE2Pol3GmVMSS7hhcLgpN4zPKpmfBF9kQlTHaPFm7k1EYjLOVMVEDZCAOLc77Qecg/s1024/CNpAhQwtUQWXKfA-1600x900-noPad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOeDtew_1bvaYW6Eepfir4Lho1IAXAy_MT0mQQrd9wZ7eE07gsJg4_0FFUoMY-Rl2dsMgl8Fiu3YPhk4mFFBpmMGUL-tX6tFXXldtiQ4kD0HlhJSx-hg11203eRLE2Pol3GmVMSS7hhcLgpN4zPKpmfBF9kQlTHaPFm7k1EYjLOVMVEDZCAOLc77Qecg/s320/CNpAhQwtUQWXKfA-1600x900-noPad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ask .. who or what is an APEX PREDATOR? - are these the top people who are meant to kindly <i style="font-weight: bold;">trickle-down </i>wealth and security to us plebs?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- I reckon that they expect to emerge from their underground bomb bunkers as <i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lords Of The</span></i> <i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Earth</span></i> and to live for ever like Gods.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- Naturally - these Western World <i>Leaders</i> <u>choose</u> to ignore <b><span style="font-size: medium;">reality</span></b> in that both China and Russia fully expect and anticipate this kind of viciousness from America's failing elite empire. - I <i>could</i> be wrong about this - so if we survive for the next five years - You can blame me for being a dumb old retard-retired forklift driver who 'knows nothing'.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxZ1F5OThNZYAT0Q7D1cpDxtn6T9TcoMR_ZXeU9CKKbdyTFHAO6DKyx5m8wo4IV4NySrBErr2vuTk7MrGqLaiIk9i5yOL5jbteqhLsAEf5M20HRm1l9rpDc2YCQ-jcAm-4m5pb28b-YyKyDM_fBHFPOG1vnjlEMWetw9SW_1Or4fE_EbNWSwrsrkVH6w/s2757/rod's.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1306" data-original-width="2757" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxZ1F5OThNZYAT0Q7D1cpDxtn6T9TcoMR_ZXeU9CKKbdyTFHAO6DKyx5m8wo4IV4NySrBErr2vuTk7MrGqLaiIk9i5yOL5jbteqhLsAEf5M20HRm1l9rpDc2YCQ-jcAm-4m5pb28b-YyKyDM_fBHFPOG1vnjlEMWetw9SW_1Or4fE_EbNWSwrsrkVH6w/w640-h304/rod's.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Ain'</b><b>t They Beautiful ? A Mate's Big-Bore Antiques</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For some two years "<i>they've</i>" been telling us how Ukraine is stopping an invasion of Europe while delivering heavy damage to Russia - and how Putin is about to be deposed in shame for his failures - provided he doesn't first die from some awful disease. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">- <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Now</span> </b>the PR spin-team are trying to reverse all the lies and to prepare us to believe that the collapse and surrender of Ukraine - with close to a million casualities is fine, and exactly what they planned ... because the <b><u><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">new</span></u></b> <b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">story</span></b> is <span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: medium;"><b>Israel</b></span> and how the Israelis are "defending themselves" from the <i>anti-Semitic</i> attacks by Gaza's imprisoned semitic women and children. Propaganda usually starts with unwelcome fact, then twists everything into what they want you to think.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Harking back to sociopathic "<i>Apex</i> <i>Predators</i>" - those top movers and manipulators of world economies and mercenary militaries - I see that these hugely wealthy & powerful players are closely linked to the many <span><i style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Intelligence </i>organisations that function exactly like parasitic worms .. wriggling around <u>inside</u> every financial body to direct behaviours, - while emerging periodically from every itching arsehole to drop into the paddock and recycle into the next elected government.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Right now - some people here in NZ, - who they have said are<b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> 'Fit & Proper' </span></b>to have guns - are supposed to be wholly despised as <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">BAD</span></b> <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">PEOPLE</span></b> - <i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Pariahs</span></b></i> - because the spin says that we let our stuff be stolen by gang members and <i>caused</i> terrorism ..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A few years back I made a couple of bows from PVC conduit pipe - reinforced with internal fibreglass tent poles .. I wasn't much impressed by either my craftsmanship nor by my ability to shoot arrows - but it was new technology for me, being totally ignorant of the skills needed eh.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEHr3oPIfO3wXsyBQC2F-FmS6vZRZEBB9KqFZIVA0ObqNbOsTleMmYn-isqs_wVasZnzzDPcUoUD_mNHUnCDCLLDLFXmgKokFGmbOMaFC4KneUW9XmixCuQyPj0cX41lpWiYXl_K5ND4H_OqKimLHtviVry_-olcURPqm7pAiyc-dMg7vikYqwd__YrA/s269/girlybows.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="269" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEHr3oPIfO3wXsyBQC2F-FmS6vZRZEBB9KqFZIVA0ObqNbOsTleMmYn-isqs_wVasZnzzDPcUoUD_mNHUnCDCLLDLFXmgKokFGmbOMaFC4KneUW9XmixCuQyPj0cX41lpWiYXl_K5ND4H_OqKimLHtviVry_-olcURPqm7pAiyc-dMg7vikYqwd__YrA/w400-h279/girlybows.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Here's a great doco-movie .. a real eye opener <i><b>ARCHERY IT'S HISTORY AND FORMS</b></i>:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D1GkX1T6gQ" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D1GkX1T6gQ</a></p><p>This truly is INTERESTING - & it includes crossbows, bullet crossbows, and early firearms.</p><p>Fascinating & ballistically relevant in NZ - where the <b><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">authorities</span></i></b> are currently stamping on firearms ownership & use.</p><p>I may have to dig-out my cord-powered <i>masterpieces</i> ... and maybe think about powerful "AIR GUNS"</p><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Can you justify how a fit and proper NZ Citizen must pay heaps to complete Seventy Pages of Application Forms to own a firearm - while police employees need <b><span>NO LICENCE</span></b> to use Military Style Assault Weapons - <b>machine guns</b> and <i>automatic</i> pistols in our society? </span></div><div><b><i>Note: </i>The <i>free </i>application form for <u>joining</u> the New Zealand Police is just ONE PAGE.</b><div><br /></div><div>I was brought-up to respect my elders as being wise & 'in charge' .. but FACTUAL EXPERIENCE of dealing with a "national airline's" management as a union delegate, - Police heirarchy as a firearms dealer, - and politicians over the last 50 years, tells me that these people are <span style="font-size: medium;">CORRUPT</span>, VENAL, SELF-INTERESTED LIARS. - How the hell they manage to lie their way into power is an indictment on us ordinary voters and Tax Payers for being too lazy to stop them.<br /><p><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></p></div></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-49821389107874264152024-01-09T18:21:00.000-08:002024-01-11T15:50:25.636-08:00Then there were THREE Turn-Off's - Plus Story of CIA's DEAR PISTOL Throw-Away 9mm Turn-Off ..<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR0hk4HALQNyT22ExFXR_qG5U9vha87kUmE6AtgLTSqzh2V5EnqYadyunPXGH6oT2IpwV5ss3XqizdYO99K-i6D8xI6Wp4VwCWlUXv0RenkSRlt7G3_PP7joVRtw5CKNnp3pOQlr38vPO-dn-cI_tsskvBOyidgI759FE_Wd7eR7ulSztjfnkzFADD6w/s3938/3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2671" data-original-width="3938" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR0hk4HALQNyT22ExFXR_qG5U9vha87kUmE6AtgLTSqzh2V5EnqYadyunPXGH6oT2IpwV5ss3XqizdYO99K-i6D8xI6Wp4VwCWlUXv0RenkSRlt7G3_PP7joVRtw5CKNnp3pOQlr38vPO-dn-cI_tsskvBOyidgI759FE_Wd7eR7ulSztjfnkzFADD6w/w640-h434/3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Three Antique 'Brummie' Turn-Off Pocket Pistols </b><b>170 y.o +- </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Rough Enough </b><b>but </b><b>in Working Condition.</b></div></b> Around 1825 Henry <i><b>Deringer</b></i> developed <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">his</span></i></b> style of compact percussion <u><b><i>pocket</i></b></u> <u><b><i>pistol</i></b></u> .. these are 'kissin-cousins'.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb757-Ypa3DtG6zwKGC3EK515dmoZ4VLyUhSSISg-8ZsGrI7XtXs1f1ZEwM1UoD-G-jd1tJaAOwzAl-r63KQfxyWhnbwOarjspkSMiU7i60hdsGhLnqn_ZxRBhIBE7VQKPxsNfhfJ8e0TcjPIxsRjsyrU3S-L3DE4PnV41PG9sv17jq54oaBCSki8_VA/s640/Booth_deringer%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="640" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb757-Ypa3DtG6zwKGC3EK515dmoZ4VLyUhSSISg-8ZsGrI7XtXs1f1ZEwM1UoD-G-jd1tJaAOwzAl-r63KQfxyWhnbwOarjspkSMiU7i60hdsGhLnqn_ZxRBhIBE7VQKPxsNfhfJ8e0TcjPIxsRjsyrU3S-L3DE4PnV41PG9sv17jq54oaBCSki8_VA/w640-h344/Booth_deringer%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Booth's Philadelphia Deringer (the Lincoln One)</i></b></div></b><p><b style="color: #2b00fe;">Some time earlier, around 1816 - <i>someone</i> developed the metalic percussion cap .. on the principle of a chemical ignition by impact - as patented earlier in 1807 by Scots Reverend Forsyth.</b></p><p><span><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-small;"><u>NOBODY</u> KNOWS who did it FIRST .. There were various ALTERNATIVE SELF-PRIMING SYSTEMS such a Forsyths SCENT BOTTLE System, COPPER TUBE CRUSHING, PILL LOCKS, PAPER-TAPE, CAPS. - Early Metal CAPS tried IRON, PEWTER, then COPPER. - Various chemical blends or FULMINATES have been employed. </span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">You CAN make your OWN </span>CAPS<span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></b></span></p><p>So these guys got "on to it" in a hurry. The Queen Anne pistol (flintlock) was developed during her reign 1702-14 - being the forerunner, to have THREE FEATURES - a TURN-OFF BARREL, enabled by locating the FRIZZEN SPRING at the REAR, - and an INTEGRAL LOCK-PLATE /TANG that might be called a BOXLOCK.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJ_c1Cv-014biBwWeQ0z0zDgENLaE-Npqpj0K3AR1xqqCfBZdTfjOTDKFMaQVG22aB-qtpupp2TDfmQknm-7tHDBJcfdxzFmdin5zu2j9q-szqOngVEK8aJYI4CkP_RxzORfyf-XNDuVQAz1Qs1bQN_drR2ZOkGIsYaLeWJXTiDC9DEZ2RLO6x3gStg/s1000/qap.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="1000" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJ_c1Cv-014biBwWeQ0z0zDgENLaE-Npqpj0K3AR1xqqCfBZdTfjOTDKFMaQVG22aB-qtpupp2TDfmQknm-7tHDBJcfdxzFmdin5zu2j9q-szqOngVEK8aJYI4CkP_RxzORfyf-XNDuVQAz1Qs1bQN_drR2ZOkGIsYaLeWJXTiDC9DEZ2RLO6x3gStg/w400-h186/qap.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"> - </b><span style="text-align: left;">Poor bloody Poms are having to choose between drowning, freezing or starving under their Tory Govt winter - (unless they get nuked). - Time for a <span style="background-color: red; color: white;">STELLA</span><span style="background-color: white;"> up here/Down Under .. gotta be around 24 C.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>_____________</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyway, my third <b style="font-style: italic;">Turn-off Pistol </b>has arrived on my doorstep and I am liking it ..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The lock is <i>gun metal </i>or some kind of copper alloy - so there was no rust seizing to the barrel or nipple threads. Someone <u>had</u> worked on it as the nipple is a replacement, the trigger spring was missing & a lump of rubber was <i>sort-of</i> working instead, the hammer pivot screw is bent/fecked and there was a smeared blob of chewing gum-filler putty on the right side of the checkered grips - colored brown, that was covering damage done by some moron gouging 25mm high initials '<i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">JB</i><span>'</span><span>. - </span>I've mostly removed the smeared <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">filler</span></b> <b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">blob </span></b>and have been attempting to improve the destroyed checkering with my 'swiss file'..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM15UB5DT6UL8Qco0SE2u-CKt0sKr29g7qJPk4QWYsTxttJdIcO0MNsnr0t_zbiU2e8Xx8bQPZPYEVaYSb-w_6lebKDXNDazh1go111XIiHsUcFihk4N1VGDAa59AjsWytMEF6UbUIaR0qqHurIR4yGl45zwsiopduTPDhJsiwaEGsuYyQ0LmQCReAEQ/s3278/damage%20worked.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3278" data-original-width="2991" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM15UB5DT6UL8Qco0SE2u-CKt0sKr29g7qJPk4QWYsTxttJdIcO0MNsnr0t_zbiU2e8Xx8bQPZPYEVaYSb-w_6lebKDXNDazh1go111XIiHsUcFihk4N1VGDAa59AjsWytMEF6UbUIaR0qqHurIR4yGl45zwsiopduTPDhJsiwaEGsuYyQ0LmQCReAEQ/w584-h640/damage%20worked.jpg" width="584" /></a></div>I have now plugged and slightly moved the two grip screw holes into a better/closer fit with the lock - and bent-up a new trigger <span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">spring</span><span> from 1.19mm (.047") PIANO WIRE</span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> - </span><span>complete with a "spigot" into the locating hole .. this has restored the halfcock & fullcock function.</span><div><span>- I need to </span><span>obtain a</span><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> </span>replacement for the crappy hammer<span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"> pivot </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>screw</b> </span><span>and maybe try to smooth the barrel-bore some. - But this wee Birmingham proofed .36" Caliber (.38 inch balls) is pleasing me.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>A VERY rare D<i>ee</i>r <i>Gun</i> or D<i>ea</i>r Pistol ?</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmQvKVbR6AIjzm4Yr0SaiPM4_M6Hjc5YsWFAHDjT7hghPP4g5Mg34967ldTo-DyvehHm_ah2JmSiRudOB2WTJs3GvfpFIgliwLx8_FBlzvl_jJzr13g_UYnQMa2rzoNzyjtmiKETL0wZnVyxImi3Qn84FppY41NFa33dtkIlhyphenhyphenAmsZ9uj2RFolfCt6w/s257/deergunPack.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="257" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmQvKVbR6AIjzm4Yr0SaiPM4_M6Hjc5YsWFAHDjT7hghPP4g5Mg34967ldTo-DyvehHm_ah2JmSiRudOB2WTJs3GvfpFIgliwLx8_FBlzvl_jJzr13g_UYnQMa2rzoNzyjtmiKETL0wZnVyxImi3Qn84FppY41NFa33dtkIlhyphenhyphenAmsZ9uj2RFolfCt6w/w400-h305/deergunPack.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, - For use in VietNam, in the 1960's the U S CIA developed it's own special weapons version of the <i style="font-weight: bold;">Turn Barrel</i> Breech Loader single shot - in 9mm NATO Caliber .. Stock Number <b>1395-HOO-9108</b> known forever as the <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"</span></i></b><i style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">DEER GUN"</i><b style="font-size: large;">. </b>A low-cost "disposable" tool for their villagers to dispose of "<i><span style="color: red;">commies</span></i>" who actually were anti-colonial nationalists (but never mind the facts eh).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnwwx8OAic4y5m_GfWuGP7jOXiRMp3NUClMEyrfgeV-iMiZFVNgMM4PtKsreTTUUQicbC7RzgrDczxStNc70PmWknELwykoBemftFoYNRXqRnAgAXDWpNG_A3gLdmXkby5HCfyYy2sm4ZFmaBBa1chFd25hOlPq8eUmF79BB1kdd1ucGi8uhka7LelcQ/s700/tumblr_p99esds0BH1s57vgxo2_r1_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="700" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnwwx8OAic4y5m_GfWuGP7jOXiRMp3NUClMEyrfgeV-iMiZFVNgMM4PtKsreTTUUQicbC7RzgrDczxStNc70PmWknELwykoBemftFoYNRXqRnAgAXDWpNG_A3gLdmXkby5HCfyYy2sm4ZFmaBBa1chFd25hOlPq8eUmF79BB1kdd1ucGi8uhka7LelcQ/w640-h506/tumblr_p99esds0BH1s57vgxo2_r1_1280.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">DE</span></b>nied<b style="font-size: large;"> </b><b><span style="font-size: large;">AR</span></b>ea<b style="font-size: large;"> PISTOL: </b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Simple Screw barrel, breech loading, spring-loaded striker -<i style="font-weight: bold;">ZipGun. </i>(You<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i><i><u>can</u></i> make springs from 'piano wire'). - A very good article here all about the <i>Dear</i> - I couldn't do better ..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://smallarmsreview.com/zip-zap-youre-a-dead-vc-the-cias-dear-little-dear-pistol-in-vietnam/" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://smallarmsreview.com/zip-zap-youre-a-dead-vc-the-cias-dear-little-dear-pistol-in-vietnam/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitdWOelGwstufMaOyVSEreCONI2gATHuAw8SjCjyQ3julhPOxG6LjOFBBHXtZ8CZypwACfnXUa7xBCxxNrpDRS57Zc7NwHmSHZC13jLD6RwumBocxm379yuqMExmSWtOKo_CDtWPZr3F9x6RKJrbnLnqJuPN-z2y8EdDw3HqJoT62gHjFSbX4ZgYDDXg/s800/HJA21-NEAT-The-Deer-Gun.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="800" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitdWOelGwstufMaOyVSEreCONI2gATHuAw8SjCjyQ3julhPOxG6LjOFBBHXtZ8CZypwACfnXUa7xBCxxNrpDRS57Zc7NwHmSHZC13jLD6RwumBocxm379yuqMExmSWtOKo_CDtWPZr3F9x6RKJrbnLnqJuPN-z2y8EdDw3HqJoT62gHjFSbX4ZgYDDXg/w400-h288/HJA21-NEAT-The-Deer-Gun.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Govt</b>. Leads The Way On GUN CONTROL:</div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-29304926280158214022024-01-07T16:33:00.000-08:002024-01-08T21:02:37.105-08:00"INTERESTING" TIMES:<p> We are led by self-deluding incompetent sociopathic thieves and liars.</p><p>Are <b><span style="font-size: medium;">we</span></b>, - as FIT & PROPER GUN OWNERS prepared for the World at War?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3ar1MN-a8QXodNx1mT7z7fMeqUl2M0u65zYa_Y5cATTT6NHqstcvxpk9HL1Wsw_JBJ-pFX7OCA8oPp5IjEjjfDq5dHdevkVAPPwVQ2-kOb67bc61YTVXCn-LqhRaWzZpt9ZRg8OuPxP_6s-aodCDpykdeM5XlSZdlXdKSJmF3PK0vYRVaiH1illbPw/s294/images%20(24).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="294" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3ar1MN-a8QXodNx1mT7z7fMeqUl2M0u65zYa_Y5cATTT6NHqstcvxpk9HL1Wsw_JBJ-pFX7OCA8oPp5IjEjjfDq5dHdevkVAPPwVQ2-kOb67bc61YTVXCn-LqhRaWzZpt9ZRg8OuPxP_6s-aodCDpykdeM5XlSZdlXdKSJmF3PK0vYRVaiH1illbPw/s1600/images%20(24).jpeg" width="294" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">OUR WESTERN </span><i style="text-align: left;">DEMOCRACIES, - </i><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #b45f06; text-align: left;"><b>THE</b></span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">PEOPLE IN POWER</span></b><span style="text-align: left;"> - ARE CORRUPT.</span></div><p>Some NAMES to remember: - JEFFREY EPSTEIN - GHISLAINE MAXWELL - U S PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON - PRINCE ANDREW (Duke of York) - ROBERT MAXWELL ..</p><p>It goes <b style="font-style: italic;">on & on </b>- but don't be pushed into focusing on underage girls, <span style="font-size: medium;">SEX</span>, and paedophiles. - <b style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">THAT </b>is the perception that the papers and TV <u style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">want</span></u> you to believe it's all about .. <i>"Human Frailties"</i></p><p><i>These people <u>are</u> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>criminal</b></span> power-wielding <b>sickos & scammers.</b></i></p><p>BAN GUNS ..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">How many </span><i style="text-align: left;">inside witnesses </i><span style="text-align: left;">have "committed suicide"? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">- </span><b style="text-align: left;"><i>Epstein</i></b><span style="text-align: left;"> for one is supposed to have, in a FEDERAL prison solitary cell under surveillence, by jumping from his top bunk - smashing his head on the concrete floor - before strangling himself - Believe me. - They removed all his clothing and disappeared the evidence, as well as turning-off all the cell block cameras.</span></div><p></p><p>.. <i><b>Mark Middleton</b></i> Special Advisor to Clinton, and <i>associate </i>of Epstein, suicided by hanging himself from a tree, - then shooting himself in the chest with a 12G shotgun. - Believe me.</p><p><i style="font-weight: bold;">Jean-Luc Brunel </i>- Epstein's "<i>model</i> agent" hanged himself in a prison cell after arrest - Believe me.</p><p><i style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Maxwell </i>- <i style="font-weight: bold;">Ghislaine's </i>corrupt<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>criminal<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>father - was also both an <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Israeli</span></b> & CIA intelligence Agent & <i>"fell-off"</i> his yacht to overdose on salt water, after stealing <b>1.2 BILLION DOLLARS</b> from pension funds. - Believe me.</p><p>The truth is that the sex was <b>used </b>to blackmail scum into <b style="color: #b45f06;">MASSIVE FINANCIAL CORRUPTION & THEFT OF PUBLIC MONEY.</b> - Banking Financial Crises and <b>MURDER</b> that we all paid for. - I think the <b><span style="font-size: medium;">FBI</span></b> is looking after Epstein's incriminating sex hot tapes for Israel.</p><p>- <u>BIG</u> Money. - Corruption at the top. Well - WE voted for them.</p><p><a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/prince-presidents-king-pop-named-jeffrey-epstein-files/?mi_u=92567a7f280a4989864e4de48c78a1cd&mi_ecmp=evening(6pm)&utm_source=crm_LBC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&mi_cmp=a112e7ce887fa34a_9732741&mi_sc=t" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/prince-presidents-king-pop-named-jeffrey-epstein-files/?mi_u=92567a7f280a4989864e4de48c78a1cd&mi_ecmp=evening(6pm)&utm_source=crm_LBC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&mi_cmp=a112e7ce887fa34a_9732741&mi_sc=t</a></p><p>Nothing to see here then - what we need is more G<span style="font-size: medium;">un Control</span> ..</p><p>They lie - They cheat - They steal. THIS IS GOVERNMENT.</p><p><b>CORRUPTION - POWER - MONEY - BLACKMAIL - COVER-UP - GOVERNMENT.</b></p><p><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od5lipBQhe0" style="background-color: #ff00fe;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od5lipBQhe0</a></b></p><p>More Gun Control.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_lyjF5dDx6RWRe4amp_qODBUANEnPFO5WaADXkSQV_UE2s2cp1p2FK9P8vck07OEKdqxsnE-xPACF6YVltECGM9-IxjF9p3zER3damX6blYzMitniGykdl3hmPHXTCl_77fwLWGC92X7YHMSKTbKhpO1Onp4AJN1sFV-PO2DU_Bpvr2fUhO4wd5bnQ/s1280/e30b80030d78bdae9d2aac7cab860bde.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1280" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV_lyjF5dDx6RWRe4amp_qODBUANEnPFO5WaADXkSQV_UE2s2cp1p2FK9P8vck07OEKdqxsnE-xPACF6YVltECGM9-IxjF9p3zER3damX6blYzMitniGykdl3hmPHXTCl_77fwLWGC92X7YHMSKTbKhpO1Onp4AJN1sFV-PO2DU_Bpvr2fUhO4wd5bnQ/w400-h225/e30b80030d78bdae9d2aac7cab860bde.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>President Bill Clinton - Portrait In A Blue Dress</b></div></b><div>No money for Health Care? No Cash for Education? Not enough Police? - You can watch TV ..<p></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR4TVZK_yUc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR4TVZK_yUc</a><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-34544798853538689872024-01-03T23:57:00.000-08:002024-01-03T23:57:35.403-08:00TOILET PAPER Charcoal for Black Powder - Lubes :<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I mix my blackpowder lubes & 'Bore Butter' using all edible kitchen stuff - as you never know when you might get hungry eh - Nothing too wrong with some 'Dripping' or Lard, blended with beeswax and Olive oil or cheap Canola ..</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">I suggest that you do the same, </span><b style="text-align: left;"><u>and</u></b><span style="text-align: left;"> avoid </span><i style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">Castor Oil</span></b></i><span style="text-align: left;"> like the plague .. it's much too closely related to RICIN. - If you don't know about ricin poison .. may all the Godz BLESS YOU.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKBg6Fq7pcXAMIPFAeb9AhNsvDY86fJVM9S6XZvZ1hRWS_zgOj1JPPNA02MNHc02vPMm5lFmqB6DhtNCTGluR6xC93DVM43Cu2pHbDfzts7lRJPGXYsU-NH48MxUG41Q7xvROhmoXUK9jF9cQ7ciUMclBi4acTar4pUR7kxM-pCnMa4yErs9zeSWxPw/s323/kiwispahg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="323" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDKBg6Fq7pcXAMIPFAeb9AhNsvDY86fJVM9S6XZvZ1hRWS_zgOj1JPPNA02MNHc02vPMm5lFmqB6DhtNCTGluR6xC93DVM43Cu2pHbDfzts7lRJPGXYsU-NH48MxUG41Q7xvROhmoXUK9jF9cQ7ciUMclBi4acTar4pUR7kxM-pCnMa4yErs9zeSWxPw/w200-h97/kiwispahg.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>NZ C</b><b>hurch </b><b>of </b><b>the Flying Spaghetti Monster</b></div><p><a href="https://flicense.blogspot.com/2023/01/bore-butter-grease-lube.html"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: red;">https://flicense.blogspot.com/2023/01/bore-butter-grease-lube.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://leverguns.com/articles/taylor/bullet_lubes.htm?fbclid=IwAR3TruaLB_58voddijBRSmKBnZIFnN5uXbk1FOA6qJPm7RFeD-LMOLS-0-U" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://leverguns.com/articles/taylor/bullet_lubes.htm?fbclid=IwAR3TruaLB_58voddijBRSmKBnZIFnN5uXbk1FOA6qJPm7RFeD-LMOLS-0-U</a></p><p>Testing 'em:</p><p><a href="https://dayattherange.com/?page_id=3667" style="background-color: #f6b26b;">https://dayattherange.com/?page_id=3667</a></p><p><a href="https://blackpowderguide.com/make-cap-and-ball-black-powder-lube-recipe/" style="background-color: #01ffff;">https://blackpowderguide.com/make-cap-and-ball-black-powder-lube-recipe/</a></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Recipes:</span></p><p><a href="https://gungiveaways.com/black-powder-lube-recipes/" style="background-color: #ff00fe;">https://gungiveaways.com/black-powder-lube-recipes/</a></p><p>Here's exhaustive listings .. if you can't find <b>one</b> here that you like - you must be related to my ex ..</p><p><a href="https://castbulletassoc.org/uploads/newpdf/cblube2016.pdf" style="background-color: #cccccc;">https://castbulletassoc.org/uploads/newpdf/cblube2016.pdf</a></p><p>Here's very readable ..</p><p><a href="http://www.lasc.us/lubeingredients.htm" style="background-color: #fff2cc;">http://www.lasc.us/lubeingredients.htm</a></p><p>I suppose you could always <i>BUY</i> something ready-made ?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>__</b><b>____________________</b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>OK .. Black Powder CHARCOAL:</b></span></p><p>There is always discussion about the best tree-wood to use for the most powerful home-made GUN POWDER. - Everyone & his dog has their own opinion but the <i>Youtube</i> jokers I most enjoy are <i style="font-weight: bold;">11 BangBang - Old Ranger </i>- &<i style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="background-color: #cccccc;">Everything Black Powder</span>. </i><span>-</span><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>Jake-Willard @ <b><i style="background-color: #cccccc;">EBP</i></b> has tested multiple batches from a variety of methods and shot them over his chronograph .. so we are not talking <i>"beliefs" </i>here. When actually firing Black Powder <u>Cartridges</u> or a percussion revolver - because of the absolute limit of the chamber's or <b>case</b>'s internal volume, it is important to use full power powder to get useful velocities. - However it is less critical when using a front stuffer muzzle loading arm as, if the powder is a little weak you can just increase your load to compensate.</p><p>A lot of comparison and checking has basically concluded that <i style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">WILLOW</i> is the best, close run by Balsa, grapevine, alder buckthorn, and maple. - There are 350 different species of Willow trees of course - but the Secondary important feature of GOOD ANTIQUE PROPELLANT is how <b style="text-decoration-line: underline;">dirty</b> it is and how easy the fouling comes-out.</p><p>Well you can relax now ... as Jake has found that the <b>VERY BEST</b> <b>CHARCOAL</b> for propellant IS ...<b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Toilet Paper: <span style="font-size: x-large;">⬇</span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTV5I8HDX1I" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTV5I8HDX1I</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj07KETM5L7cBB2HHH4dNM_ZklRi7Ps8dYmZjsRb0Kl1dQjMD3I4wAK6Y2PAEb9xZ21jaJFK2-NedbH0ZBouHoi8MKOH78GcM2IG-BO0LeKcD01nw8EsFEv7jX5PJHtm0rCaHKRxVKhG8UwQhxyTiPd4wh61y_BlDUtfbkeEVIFRg9OCeKuRyeD2yiblQ/s259/tp.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj07KETM5L7cBB2HHH4dNM_ZklRi7Ps8dYmZjsRb0Kl1dQjMD3I4wAK6Y2PAEb9xZ21jaJFK2-NedbH0ZBouHoi8MKOH78GcM2IG-BO0LeKcD01nw8EsFEv7jX5PJHtm0rCaHKRxVKhG8UwQhxyTiPd4wh61y_BlDUtfbkeEVIFRg9OCeKuRyeD2yiblQ/s1600/tp.jpeg" width="259" /></a></div><p><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></p>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-22378034053793967732023-12-31T11:30:00.000-08:002023-12-31T11:30:49.629-08:0054 Bore Old Rusty Pistols Need BIG Balls (.45":<p> <b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">HIPPIE NOO YEAH</span></b></p><p>Mid 19th Century - these were the self defence 'CARRY GUN' for a subprime average Joe or Jude.</p><p>NOBODY wants a half inch hole in their guts or chest as payment for upsetting someone .. so in those days folk mostly were quiet mannered, polite and respectful .. less opinionated perhaps.</p><p>One of these babies, bought with a bullet mold, a tin of powder - some caps, and maybe a handful of ready-made balls might provide family entertainment AND security for years:<img border="0" data-original-height="2632" data-original-width="3438" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg28hDFdKgnrZhlcr6hUA5Mt7Zl5Rc_I6vOb5Pg3GGBMpC15TjKWbTWvcF9n0f9zDWLPMc5h6KGHNj_LGM2BgCYlvRa1V0cnsmPcGoPrthQBNEaWlP9j37ir9pA1RwNilODCu8tmDR9YVEwqcLTZ-fO1Xt1AVOaDz_gH4KbS7PNlMhIwI1gjrJvYrcOtw/w640-h490/groupcap&ball.jpg" width="640" /></p><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>Food, Knowledge & Security <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(but the Garlic is Chinese shop bought)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">No charge for telling you .. but this second 54 Bore <i>'Turn-Off'</i> pistol made me sweat & <i>swear </i>trying<i> </i>to<i> </i>release the seized barrel .. and yes I DID put several new marks on the gun as I was hot-wrestling with it - the butane torch - the can of <b>CRC</b> - a tub of water - the bench vise - some strips of leather and a massive <i style="font-weight: bold;">Stillson </i>plumbers wrench ..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZg6x72IP0lPD_MIyDyQLWkGSQSDUmKBsSfd5Z9KPQ7wAAe62tX1M8zOZpuEgXUn_3prFqQCfMG0krnDEFjYkLHft3hE08UpH-v94o7qSCtrRRC72EShO_Mt5ddUDDXwDIKyZ9dCFua9p3iUzegopSdnzA0JapE22SwtINIbBh5G9pXKLNhAtqRyVGg/s3674/two54's.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1818" data-original-width="3674" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZg6x72IP0lPD_MIyDyQLWkGSQSDUmKBsSfd5Z9KPQ7wAAe62tX1M8zOZpuEgXUn_3prFqQCfMG0krnDEFjYkLHft3hE08UpH-v94o7qSCtrRRC72EShO_Mt5ddUDDXwDIKyZ9dCFua9p3iUzegopSdnzA0JapE22SwtINIbBh5G9pXKLNhAtqRyVGg/w640-h316/two54's.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Fully </b>Functional & Cleaned-Up .. Ready For <i>whatever</i> in the <u>next</u> 150 Years</div></b><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The old nipple next let go reasonably easy <i>and</i> a S.S. nipple for a <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">ROA</span></i></b> spun into place as if it were built for it ..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl0aHPH-PlvWzf3dXgMTqMpRq0jV1StTwYEgjRLyKMS7qyTw-eKiLMLVCLUjpzgN71MdsQfK6_FhwkLpo1fcYJVHveMWc4bAj99E-8vZMMB7jsG2mM23WXoGzS2qEeGHUeyknXmHudoYVUFrxKqGbGaONU4W2EThv6DDZIj6L-EixweYtcgIAVQIhfuQ/s1613/reholed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="949" data-original-width="1613" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl0aHPH-PlvWzf3dXgMTqMpRq0jV1StTwYEgjRLyKMS7qyTw-eKiLMLVCLUjpzgN71MdsQfK6_FhwkLpo1fcYJVHveMWc4bAj99E-8vZMMB7jsG2mM23WXoGzS2qEeGHUeyknXmHudoYVUFrxKqGbGaONU4W2EThv6DDZIj6L-EixweYtcgIAVQIhfuQ/w640-h376/reholed.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>C</b>hamber cleaned-up showing Flash-Hole:</div><div style="text-align: left;">I'm getting OK ish at juggling subject in one hand, camera/phone in the other - light in another hand .. I reckon <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">*</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">HE</span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">*</span></span></b> made a mistake only giving us <b>two hands </b>eh. - A <i>"before"</i> image would only have titilated someone with pics of black grit mess over corroded steel. Those internal lock parts must have been assembled & fitted by very <u>small hands</u> ..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgARDZyExGB3oZ-v3RPMhweQlSBmthzGxPNjk7Z9x9E9_JGN0P3z-6qReqSXPH_4HVepRs_SjxdHtpc1urC1V5NZmj5IJBEZ3lTVdT-SCadgoNDFkyrrUq4QM_RaE_s1J9zSV5nDsURwvQmzyQQmwv5GKo6TeKy9iMRsRwj9M2s1vFYiBU-0JHRQi0GiQ/s684/48572-Post-1813-Birmingham-Proof-Marks.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="684" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgARDZyExGB3oZ-v3RPMhweQlSBmthzGxPNjk7Z9x9E9_JGN0P3z-6qReqSXPH_4HVepRs_SjxdHtpc1urC1V5NZmj5IJBEZ3lTVdT-SCadgoNDFkyrrUq4QM_RaE_s1J9zSV5nDsURwvQmzyQQmwv5GKo6TeKy9iMRsRwj9M2s1vFYiBU-0JHRQi0GiQ/w200-h136/48572-Post-1813-Birmingham-Proof-Marks.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Note: Both of these antique wee snubbie carry guns - while being Birmingham UK <i>Proofed </i>- and the same caliber and <b><i>style</i></b> of cap'n'ball pistol - are very different in chamber sizes, nipple threads and barrel wall thickness .. interesting eh. - I've got another one coming which I will be keen to compare.</div><div style="text-align: left;">- I have read that these Proof Marks have been falsified sometimes?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In this percussion period - say 1840-80 .. Birmingham England and Liege Belgium were both centers of manufacturing <i style="font-weight: bold;">small arms. </i>It would be interesting to find some record of interchange of gun parts as there does seem to have been "parallel" development of firearm types.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Many of the larger London Gun Houses had their guns made in Belgium while engraved in England. - Sub-contracting is not a recent development. - Pieceworkers were often employed on the basis of HOW MANY CHILDREN THEY HAD .. to do the <i><span style="font-size: medium;">out-work</span></i>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's Interesting .. <b><i>DOUBLE ENDED</i></b> <i>Belgian? </i>POCKET PISTOLS <i><b>Link</b></i>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By-p0hymUC8" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By-p0hymUC8</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-91986966455931231922023-12-29T23:44:00.000-08:002023-12-31T02:33:22.176-08:00BIG BORE "SNUBBIES" - RUST & 'cock-ups'<p> This old bugger - I strongly dislike the <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Magnum</span></i></b> loaded BIG BLASTERS as - to be frank - I can't handle them. - They hurt the shooter. - But in general terms, I do like a big lump of lead moving forcefully downrange to frighten the horses .. provided it hasn't blasted my ears, stung my hands - sprained my wrists or broken my collar-bone.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPMUG0pQReZbFPOb1zIjB4KsrKCXioX4c_hAaDVdqaaqsFeyd7SK3la-lrVXWwIXLP3He6-nbFM5xtEMCfHBTYxygcGd4FbMzyl1_6rzAQuGEQBVaVqE0AbrQX-ssLBmMMm4kpXTb3w66BU-unKLDkL64xbJHfjOJZF6EzoVso_daEPFzvyZYcBkb6A/s800/AHJA11-bigbore-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPMUG0pQReZbFPOb1zIjB4KsrKCXioX4c_hAaDVdqaaqsFeyd7SK3la-lrVXWwIXLP3He6-nbFM5xtEMCfHBTYxygcGd4FbMzyl1_6rzAQuGEQBVaVqE0AbrQX-ssLBmMMm4kpXTb3w66BU-unKLDkL64xbJHfjOJZF6EzoVso_daEPFzvyZYcBkb6A/w400-h265/AHJA11-bigbore-4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Ain't They Manly ?</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (apart from those stupid lock-holes)</span></b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Cute as, when downloaded for a reasonable argument ..</div><div><br /></div><div>Mormon Leader Brigham Young had a bodyguard, who once quieted a crowd by saying <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Droid Sans", Tahoma, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 16px;">“I never killed anyone who didn’t need killing.”</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtHCPDLttD2lF2rztxpcKZvXvL8w3iV_ZBDg5ZRAuxohhtlLPgnS_gMXAHRh7-k446iQeRkj4Wb6-2QePAmoS6jNXFqxD6uVEB8SEsTRAym6-z5AUkOe6_US-CF-ID-YcZSoGX-c_O3Il4WEJkuhv1d4E51v-9MVrRlBwBTf8abhl58JuWa6Pxff4xg/s519/colt-model-1860-army-revolver-so-called-mormon-avenger-2.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="519" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOtHCPDLttD2lF2rztxpcKZvXvL8w3iV_ZBDg5ZRAuxohhtlLPgnS_gMXAHRh7-k446iQeRkj4Wb6-2QePAmoS6jNXFqxD6uVEB8SEsTRAym6-z5AUkOe6_US-CF-ID-YcZSoGX-c_O3Il4WEJkuhv1d4E51v-9MVrRlBwBTf8abhl58JuWa6Pxff4xg/w400-h254/colt-model-1860-army-revolver-so-called-mormon-avenger-2.webp" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Cut-Down <i>Colts</i> "MORMON AVENGING ANGEL"</b></div></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Droid Sans, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhheaIRE5byHb_7a3W7sUVyO02nOkk5qZr6uReIPHnd8wnqpOCjdo5fmyGC7h_fnyz9exo60Q7NtU7aaVi32j3nvcQ8UjP5BUlmoLlyVopJRqkwjT_2ttzh0tFJXzeRUzDrhBOznFDcc5IauwyZhxRlkB1bx0WjtVO9wS9BMSUlb_3sAVZ08oJTY7bHbQ/s519/1861-36-caliber-colt-navy-avenger-with-walnut-grips-inlaid-with-german-silver-and-abalone-hearts-stars-and-diamonds.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="519" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhheaIRE5byHb_7a3W7sUVyO02nOkk5qZr6uReIPHnd8wnqpOCjdo5fmyGC7h_fnyz9exo60Q7NtU7aaVi32j3nvcQ8UjP5BUlmoLlyVopJRqkwjT_2ttzh0tFJXzeRUzDrhBOznFDcc5IauwyZhxRlkB1bx0WjtVO9wS9BMSUlb_3sAVZ08oJTY7bHbQ/w640-h374/1861-36-caliber-colt-navy-avenger-with-walnut-grips-inlaid-with-german-silver-and-abalone-hearts-stars-and-diamonds.webp" width="640" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>I've seen <i>pics</i> of this PRETTY PIECE around a bit. </b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>- It isn't just <i>Glock</i> owners that feel the urge to p-about with a working gun eh ..</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I bought this below mid-19th Century 1850-60's <i>" unknown</i> <i>caliber"</i> <b>Turn-Off</b> or <i style="font-weight: bold;">Screw-Barrel </i>"Muff Pistol" from images posted at the auction site - guessing that both the barrel and nipple would be rust-seized in place .. as they were. Naturally.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZWxmMynSw5H2UHfssfoMxKR1pjgEfRznwUFciqgplrq2hj7a5eQcbdus5-EC7nZ7OeFUKwEjsCKSWtACyMni4wx6Yi4zdrfhnmiIyBvy8MYMkBlVIteAyCa6GtEERO-58-Nc9AjTNwRpLNPLZVMlCpUZB5NAPG-J5tqlVxpHBup9H3sVBuYszCWDVA/s3986/bought%20.45.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2075" data-original-width="3986" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNZWxmMynSw5H2UHfssfoMxKR1pjgEfRznwUFciqgplrq2hj7a5eQcbdus5-EC7nZ7OeFUKwEjsCKSWtACyMni4wx6Yi4zdrfhnmiIyBvy8MYMkBlVIteAyCa6GtEERO-58-Nc9AjTNwRpLNPLZVMlCpUZB5NAPG-J5tqlVxpHBup9H3sVBuYszCWDVA/w640-h334/bought%20.45.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: center;">It takes the same .454" size balls (140 gns) as Ruger Old Army Revolvers</b></div></blockquote><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My propane torch made me very happy when the screw-off <i>smooth bore </i>tube shifted on the third cooking-quenching .. it spat, crackle & popped a bit under the flame when smoking hot - </div><div style="text-align: left;">Always CHECK FIRST for WHAT IS DOWN THAT BARREL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWdDAdCsno5svqIOQiQsDyNYdtcHdz1BSf_CHtabBFXtQpYRqiQK8hva8OSLz58miuWuvxzJ7EvjTNS3GhwMfICVz3hdCOg75n23jxP6hvD8JRGFNHTFNro-HusNjA4E7GQXHsP1ubzrm1u4QKEnKCXigjwxOLxlQR6H718iBS68bNZThhW-R7vL4HaA/s3720/holed4powder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2273" data-original-width="3720" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWdDAdCsno5svqIOQiQsDyNYdtcHdz1BSf_CHtabBFXtQpYRqiQK8hva8OSLz58miuWuvxzJ7EvjTNS3GhwMfICVz3hdCOg75n23jxP6hvD8JRGFNHTFNro-HusNjA4E7GQXHsP1ubzrm1u4QKEnKCXigjwxOLxlQR6H718iBS68bNZThhW-R7vL4HaA/s320/holed4powder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Long ago I learned that <i>THE</i> way to clean a gun after use was to pour boiling water through it to dissolve crud and to flush it out & away. The heated metal dries rapidly to be wiped down and polished with an oily rag.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOlqyhdebiNB3iYOw__VHWllZ6cbG0oFxqES-PTaGCwQ9_RQyGm65LIMoFoCx3ytJDBrthPzc4i_2krdsMgKo1vF9hieGWxDf908xqMVRfjRVRax4uJ1RPUjYRh8yKB4xiC3Sr3JBDtk83jIQnqaojPOKV7PaWxDlcLLGA1IvXpSAz1LxCeWhpqSguqA/s4000/waveyboiled.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOlqyhdebiNB3iYOw__VHWllZ6cbG0oFxqES-PTaGCwQ9_RQyGm65LIMoFoCx3ytJDBrthPzc4i_2krdsMgKo1vF9hieGWxDf908xqMVRfjRVRax4uJ1RPUjYRh8yKB4xiC3Sr3JBDtk83jIQnqaojPOKV7PaWxDlcLLGA1IvXpSAz1LxCeWhpqSguqA/s320/waveyboiled.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">This one went into the boil pot with a spoonful of 'Cold Power' detergent that promptly went muddy as the crap dissolved - boiled for 10 minutes then all change - dumping <b>a lot</b> of grit and yummy ancient <span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Deoxyribonucleic </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">acid</span></span><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 20px;"> - </span><b>DNA </b><i>polymers</i>, before repeating. - Boiling is supposed to convert rust into a black oxide - but that doesn't seem to work for me.</div><div style="text-align: left;">AND so far I can't shift that rotten nipple .. it's looking like it may have to be DRILLED OUT.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCi67vAjtmON22RJlwo1reScMJUOr5v46uHTLmerG7bJFpntbIuviOLjdo24qf_uazeVpURPvyOQahNiYcejvpUHUsunFX5RXzhL5qLSxSSgS-Uiu315X_eRClB8_Q5S-HHAfZxnlVlra6xR1AvU5uhB0qFQ2JjV9zhq4RZowdkfKptXrMYHG_u_FARA/s2322/20231221_123337.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2322" data-original-width="1546" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCi67vAjtmON22RJlwo1reScMJUOr5v46uHTLmerG7bJFpntbIuviOLjdo24qf_uazeVpURPvyOQahNiYcejvpUHUsunFX5RXzhL5qLSxSSgS-Uiu315X_eRClB8_Q5S-HHAfZxnlVlra6xR1AvU5uhB0qFQ2JjV9zhq4RZowdkfKptXrMYHG_u_FARA/w266-h400/20231221_123337.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Stuffed & Stuck - what do you expect .. it's from Birmingham England.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>- 'Crossed Sceptres & Crown over V' Proof Marks.</b></div></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">- Here's how a TURN-OFF Pistol works - It's technically a <i style="font-weight: bold;">breach-loading pistol </i>as, around 10 grains of powder is dropped into that quarter inch dia. chamber, and the ball sits into the cup while the barrel screws back - compressing it onto the powder charge. This gives perhaps, 300-450 foot/sec velocity depending on the quality of the propellant.</div><div style="text-align: left;">- Center <i>'Dolphin' </i>Hammer, Slab Sided Grip. <b>2<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3/8<i> </i></span></b>inch smooth-bore barrel <b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">54 Bore</span></i></b> -<b>.454"</b> caliber.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQq-8qL7DT4QUQyfFv-O4_Z-np3smIqG2-d00F28g7SvKHrQGFbtXuOsJHoKOXdfe5-yUOjk03nGFHcYaD4FF6AuiNGSWBSlTg8WHFCS52B2fxCNKL6x7EwKxYc9EXO4EMaZVmc6IlSNS_6pfZbmLZFweTO_POjKFPMvs7Bu1D3bQsJabZyQ_WgWY-wQ/s600/loading_seq_sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="600" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQq-8qL7DT4QUQyfFv-O4_Z-np3smIqG2-d00F28g7SvKHrQGFbtXuOsJHoKOXdfe5-yUOjk03nGFHcYaD4FF6AuiNGSWBSlTg8WHFCS52B2fxCNKL6x7EwKxYc9EXO4EMaZVmc6IlSNS_6pfZbmLZFweTO_POjKFPMvs7Bu1D3bQsJabZyQ_WgWY-wQ/w640-h184/loading_seq_sm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Nothing wrong with a smooth-bore in a close range firearm .. what is any rifling-twist going to achieve, other than raising friction to reduce velocity? - This cap'n'ball pistol with a <b><span style="font-size: medium;">2 </span></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>3/8</b></span> inch barrel is a period <b><span style="font-size: medium;">'snubbie'</span></b> .</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">- Now for those worried about boiling gun parts - SPRINGS are tempered between 400 C - 700 C, while boiling water <u><b>cannot</b></u> rise above 100 C - so relax.</div><div style="text-align: left;">- A clean antique has to be better than a dirty old banger.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>- DO NOT BOIL YOUR <i><span style="font-size: large;">Glock</span></i>. - If it was laying on the bottom of the pot - it could MELT.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">- I'm thinking that the small powder chamber might benefit from being polished once I get the nipple out .. using fine grade emery paper - this might increase powder capacity- <span style="color: red;"><b>WARNING WARNING </b></span>I'm first trying dissolving the rust using White Vinegar in the chamber - well I've seen good test results online. We only need a <span style="font-size: xx-small;">small</span> miracle ..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHu9MMkNK69l6g63Xm5_CeIwZuKe-8SCIz1EbsE0SyMTNVw_g43SvLRghZN0S01YfzQ2oZHgfolII-3wEVLeD768eyL289V3NxO5p3rbWGX44bMbONRE0fByiZL53S92euxMVzojh8_sjgKnvieVVjPhWWp94gJ7moX7JVk7XLPW2HvjT7c0I4LHN9A/s2388/vinegar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2179" data-original-width="2388" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcHu9MMkNK69l6g63Xm5_CeIwZuKe-8SCIz1EbsE0SyMTNVw_g43SvLRghZN0S01YfzQ2oZHgfolII-3wEVLeD768eyL289V3NxO5p3rbWGX44bMbONRE0fByiZL53S92euxMVzojh8_sjgKnvieVVjPhWWp94gJ7moX7JVk7XLPW2HvjT7c0I4LHN9A/s320/vinegar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>OK, this worked overnight <u>inside</u> the chamber BUT is <b><u><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;">not</span></u></b> recommended as the vinegar dribbled causing <b><span style="color: #ffa400;">orange</span></b> surface <b><span style="color: #ffa400;">rusty</span></b> outbreaks. - Perhaps TOTAL IMMERSION works OK while the acids eat into the corrosion .. anyway the powder chamber appeared somewhat CLEANED and ready for more <b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: medium;">CRC</span></b> soaking/penetration/lubrication before further gas torching.<div><br /></div><div>This is all 'seat of the pants flying' for me .. but it WORKED - <b><span style="font-size: medium;">it's</span></b> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">OUT</span></b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACMBgRK0V3hy7srpKnWAqOIAdmflvm2vytWZrJ4YmEohGaG8qSCkc9JKlKJuDmB3FtdgGNZFxADJZMakEjqRUyloRxgg1E0m3SMGuqwi0nQXNMiog_2WYaDlgbGCnMKz9oZL5HuWDY5xlsg13E9glBjMFlJGr0UVz1G_iQXmOZfi2bwjyXmYmd5T8bg/s3372/outed%20nip.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2050" data-original-width="3372" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACMBgRK0V3hy7srpKnWAqOIAdmflvm2vytWZrJ4YmEohGaG8qSCkc9JKlKJuDmB3FtdgGNZFxADJZMakEjqRUyloRxgg1E0m3SMGuqwi0nQXNMiog_2WYaDlgbGCnMKz9oZL5HuWDY5xlsg13E9glBjMFlJGr0UVz1G_iQXmOZfi2bwjyXmYmd5T8bg/s320/outed%20nip.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Stuffed Nipple removed & a possible Replacement found -YIPPEE</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>- the new Nipple is a TRESO in Beryllium Copper (no more rust eh)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I tried clearing the damaged cone & it's insides crumbled into gritty dust ..</span></b></div></b><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAF1WoqPEdPgt-pJEnWyol8F9s07borRgxLnu-WiglIEa7DeacnUtDN-hxwncqCcomOdddtD6uIVctz0Jn-rf8sLanSv9iIeIEqCZihD6oF7Wyin5Yejmtk0WrhlAz7GYFP7W6bCO3nPU0s92MntLv-bG5gUtvaEZc6b0C4FZ8dqhykNI5HbXhV7UNSQ/s1778/doned.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="1778" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAF1WoqPEdPgt-pJEnWyol8F9s07borRgxLnu-WiglIEa7DeacnUtDN-hxwncqCcomOdddtD6uIVctz0Jn-rf8sLanSv9iIeIEqCZihD6oF7Wyin5Yejmtk0WrhlAz7GYFP7W6bCO3nPU0s92MntLv-bG5gUtvaEZc6b0C4FZ8dqhykNI5HbXhV7UNSQ/w640-h364/doned.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Reassembled, Threads Greased, & Canola-Oiled</span></b></div></b><div style="text-align: left;">I note that small pistols of this nature might be called "<i>Barkers</i>" - "<i>Pops</i>" - <i>Snappers</i>, <i>Sticks</i>, or <i style="font-weight: bold;">"Toby Pistols" </i>-<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>as a <b><i>High </i></b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Toby Man </i>was a Highway Robber - mounted, (not a <i>Low</i>-<i>Way</i> Robber .. on foot)</div><div style="text-align: left;">- I like to call them <b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;">GET OFF</span></i></b> <b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">ME" pistol</span></i></b> Ref. Link:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/03/londonreviewofbooks">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/may/03/londonreviewofbooks</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">- Should I try some<b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;">'Cold Blue'</span></b> finish applied hot - or leave the antique pistol <i>raw </i>metal?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">By the way .. that old removed nipple was hollowed-out with corrosion - I've scraped-out about 4 grains of gritty oxide-crap .. just a "shell" remains of it's proper shape.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtZE4eB2GTLzI6SKPugu7GOwv7izvHGHLmIMUGaSQms8M8xuc2ZBCoI_SCA2qhz8caGmIlsaFgPsqXnIGScjWwkcSPcATR89sJzYgSdwFxFoqe53uIMtfDaFHhIWnGCne-m8B9CJ0KssUv6z7uku-v7rVhkl5HhpErh7ZLtmzj_0nVURhXcewKD6d37A/s1782/close%20'orribles.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1096" data-original-width="1782" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtZE4eB2GTLzI6SKPugu7GOwv7izvHGHLmIMUGaSQms8M8xuc2ZBCoI_SCA2qhz8caGmIlsaFgPsqXnIGScjWwkcSPcATR89sJzYgSdwFxFoqe53uIMtfDaFHhIWnGCne-m8B9CJ0KssUv6z7uku-v7rVhkl5HhpErh7ZLtmzj_0nVURhXcewKD6d37A/w640-h394/close%20'orribles.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Corroded & Horrible with a 9mm Case Fired From a Glock 20 <u>10mm</u> ..</span></b></div></b><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjecX70cT_TXxZli7Gq9G1swC0zk_aGUXNDy43Q0en_Ndp9AFUN0MNNH6D-Z7hkMiguTb0UlzY_PjW8suY1jW0kdCCkkuo0FAE6O6OeB-UJSPwoiIT3uNNHmyaTP8IQ-XJhXo5vNSGMkmyD9bCsobUoU4owPLmhWMXtJZIkb3_YfsmOe6y0M3OesC3L4A/s2615/happens.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2267" data-original-width="2615" height="554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjecX70cT_TXxZli7Gq9G1swC0zk_aGUXNDy43Q0en_Ndp9AFUN0MNNH6D-Z7hkMiguTb0UlzY_PjW8suY1jW0kdCCkkuo0FAE6O6OeB-UJSPwoiIT3uNNHmyaTP8IQ-XJhXo5vNSGMkmyD9bCsobUoU4owPLmhWMXtJZIkb3_YfsmOe6y0M3OesC3L4A/w640-h554/happens.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>ALL MY OWN WORK ...</b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Now <i>THAT's</i> "FIRE FORMING"<br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><i>Marty K.</i></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-90016190836152060172023-12-26T11:20:00.000-08:002023-12-26T11:20:53.789-08:00Old Fashioned CRAP versus New Stuff ..<p>Thought of the day:</p><p>Testicular injuries have increased sharply among women athletes ...</p><p>Look, I write about "handguns" because I like them. - I'm getting too <i>'past-it' </i>to be struggling to climb snow clad mountains seeking the elusive Thar or for pushing through dripping muddy bush to sneak-up on a Whitetail Deer in continuous Southland rainforest <i>mist</i> .. A couple of quiet hours on range on a sunny day - with trusted mates, and a can of cold ginger beer is a <i style="font-weight: bold;">'Good-One'</i> for me.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2471" data-original-width="2471" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFcGvK_fioFYTyvVQNLEjR6foiTlYEMUkQRgP44x4DRbkAmBBRUemXXWo0D0LT8vgmv7x0C9oIqWyoZj6yVEONnRd2dDPDs3z1j5Iu477lKZEduaICyZcnXg6zBT2IKOHqp7vHr_O6hFoBeac6HAkcbLydi7x3nTX0exTDZaFBQ8K2RL92coWvrFPUfw/w640-h640/mixed2.jpg" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;">"Pistols"</i><span style="text-align: left;"> come in different <i>Brands</i> - and are made from very different materials eh. - Polymer, scandium, titanium, aluminium, chromium, various alloys of stainless steel - 'old fashioned' 4140 Ordnance alloy steels .. <i style="background-color: #01ffff;">Tritium</i> gas and even zinc based crap "Pot Metals" like <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>ZAMAK</i>.</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">- When I worked in the plastics injection moulding industry we called the particular blended </span><i style="text-align: left;"><b>Glock</b></i><span style="text-align: left;"> <i>P<b>olymer</b></i>, <b>TYPE 6 NYLON</b> - and those Stainless Steels needed to be carefully matched and differentiated on sliding surfaces to avoid friction GALLING issues. Steel ain't just steel .. while many of those early guns from the likes of </span><i style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Colt's</i><span style="text-align: left;"> weren't even made from steel - they were IRON and cast BRASS alloy, - the brass was often silver plated, as they didn't develop<i> </i>the<i> shinier </i></span><span style="text-align: left;">nickel plating until after 1843 - Sometimes with <i style="background-color: #ffd966;">German Silver</i> front sights (Not <i><u>real</u></i> SILVER .. it's a copper-nickel alloy). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhovS4kKhbTLM85r3BBZqtOSQ28CbWoRa8oawAMluTqRjC5yHOHe9JTfaQygsHxkh9J4h9OzYc8R7vxJVHm9NUrrWxMyAV7RV6S9t-L6rr-nf4577y04UWFM8rIQFunSG1LJTKMN4kBwXXcG74qWVYRGCHhOF1ArNnAQU47aI0d4eQOVWYaDQsHvKK0PA/s1600/a-scarce-antique-american-civil-war-martially-marked-colt-model-1851-navy-6-shot-36-caliber-percussion-revolver-purchased-by-the-us-army-75-inch-barrel-with-new-york-address-length-35cm-in-very-good-condition-pric.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1600" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhovS4kKhbTLM85r3BBZqtOSQ28CbWoRa8oawAMluTqRjC5yHOHe9JTfaQygsHxkh9J4h9OzYc8R7vxJVHm9NUrrWxMyAV7RV6S9t-L6rr-nf4577y04UWFM8rIQFunSG1LJTKMN4kBwXXcG74qWVYRGCHhOF1ArNnAQU47aI0d4eQOVWYaDQsHvKK0PA/w640-h342/a-scarce-antique-american-civil-war-martially-marked-colt-model-1851-navy-6-shot-36-caliber-percussion-revolver-purchased-by-the-us-army-75-inch-barrel-with-new-york-address-length-35cm-in-very-good-condition-pric.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><b style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></i></b></div>"Class - Who can tell me why are most modern firearms coloured <span style="font-size: large;">BLACK </span>?"</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"- Well children .. most plastics when exposed to sunlight are degraded & weakened by UV Radiation - so they learned to mix Carbon BLACK into the material to block the sunlight and then they add UV Stabilizer chemicals too." </span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"<span style="font-size: large;">That's</span> why modern guns are black."</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"Did you know that BULLET-PROOF GLASS is actually layered or laminated with a kind of tough plastic called POLYCARBONATE and it has to be changed EVERY year to remain effective </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">- because the plastic slowly gets weaker from the sunlight?</span></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxVTK2-QlUBOxH8H-E8vTbT1wQlqKODDdmSQKci3ER072GJBHFbLg3trB8m-ZHS5btjlWMhe4KjQuVD8Ng4iEPfMwcRPpE0f452mgSPIS0hRGLfk5qI-YW7K8YJw2hry1_lUZlRRBbJ5H8WLmhn3z_eD5Fza3zWodGbWp0qWRy9RHluWIduRNmVf_LrQ/s2624/modern-black-sniper-rifle-closeup-shot-back-view-photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="2624" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxVTK2-QlUBOxH8H-E8vTbT1wQlqKODDdmSQKci3ER072GJBHFbLg3trB8m-ZHS5btjlWMhe4KjQuVD8Ng4iEPfMwcRPpE0f452mgSPIS0hRGLfk5qI-YW7K8YJw2hry1_lUZlRRBbJ5H8WLmhn3z_eD5Fza3zWodGbWp0qWRy9RHluWIduRNmVf_LrQ/w400-h299/modern-black-sniper-rifle-closeup-shot-back-view-photo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A "BLACK GUN" ..</span></b></div></span><div style="text-align: left;">Now I really like <b><i>Glocks</i></b> - my <i>bestest</i> <b><i>Glock </i></b>currently would be the<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b>G 19X</b> </span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span>..</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5uebjz0EIroTbVGw3HcA4UNdUui1T0Rd-UKuwXGDaf08Ea-NBxarM2ucRqtntOAh0fgH22UPfafiz4EwP_9T2a01GCSuG8k_KRvUgu7LMyXJb2nPUbwiOj6Fi0-NYnBILK7gFmMqshBjEHqfzQy77QfqdihPBAqdtJs7e7RC4eiMopGp4gI2ba43rg/s1900/Glock-G19X-with-stock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="1900" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM5uebjz0EIroTbVGw3HcA4UNdUui1T0Rd-UKuwXGDaf08Ea-NBxarM2ucRqtntOAh0fgH22UPfafiz4EwP_9T2a01GCSuG8k_KRvUgu7LMyXJb2nPUbwiOj6Fi0-NYnBILK7gFmMqshBjEHqfzQy77QfqdihPBAqdtJs7e7RC4eiMopGp4gI2ba43rg/w640-h408/Glock-G19X-with-stock.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Glock G19X - A Thoroughly Modern Pistol that Strangely, Is <u>not</u> Black:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Another favorite shooting gun - my four inch </span><b style="text-align: left;"><i>Webley</i></b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">Revolver </span><span style="text-align: left;">..</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgpXUVNA9Tnse4VoUDD_xuR72VRJQ3D1aZfeCmFQr77q04U_waAySi5oh_wbAyDY4xikMwzevmpXBaBtZQQhdXF8fOV83pgKj5J9xMEy18eLBqiCIQLqUbTW1_OvCf3_YPVVVEivYSI3dSXRZ0kMsPG5ruH_SXfCEV6l-uPDduOvGhDmZX0Zcfdgt71w/s640/P1010047%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgpXUVNA9Tnse4VoUDD_xuR72VRJQ3D1aZfeCmFQr77q04U_waAySi5oh_wbAyDY4xikMwzevmpXBaBtZQQhdXF8fOV83pgKj5J9xMEy18eLBqiCIQLqUbTW1_OvCf3_YPVVVEivYSI3dSXRZ0kMsPG5ruH_SXfCEV6l-uPDduOvGhDmZX0Zcfdgt71w/w640-h480/P1010047%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>A Reputedly Weak Design <i>Top-Break</i> Revolver <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(this one Israeli Issued)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>- in an "Under Powered" Obsolete Caliber 38-200</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div></b><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;">Plasticine can be very adult useful once the kids have finished with it .. to prove that <i><span style="font-size: medium;">'old & useless</span></i>' is typical modern bollocks</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiYJtWDAwVsjvZBPFnToec3RhJcAPQoZZMjIZt5dk5cS1XzeUwoF5f722Y3zNeIGNGO0C-LmG364vi6_E-7KvcmVLvyJfPIsRBCf-OSicmjc5tlNaqOvKW0lQ7bjrOkLb0cdhIOJ-j4o1aU8tpgFrZfLDU9vrAds3jn_046IQhdeU4A47we_Z5mw8SFw/s320/38wads%20in%20plasticene.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiYJtWDAwVsjvZBPFnToec3RhJcAPQoZZMjIZt5dk5cS1XzeUwoF5f722Y3zNeIGNGO0C-LmG364vi6_E-7KvcmVLvyJfPIsRBCf-OSicmjc5tlNaqOvKW0lQ7bjrOkLb0cdhIOJ-j4o1aU8tpgFrZfLDU9vrAds3jn_046IQhdeU4A47we_Z5mw8SFw/s1600/38wads%20in%20plasticene.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>'Wadcutter' Bullets are <i>outdated technology too ..</i></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>How Come they still Work?</b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">- I like watches too, <b><i>G-Shocks</i></b> & <b><i>Glocks</i></b> make me smile ..<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNuZ28Ktf_r_iS_3HulGk4FqWOxaPxLrmCKOWb_RkTQUxXI1_yftAwDWNb-FFMps7f7T4TxaAZ2snJm4DrFg5n_nSbIYQwuIP6s4mW_F5WoEuI8kZ7Sev6zB0V37bLNu6kF5s14-02vgMcO7IckfNzrynxmg_JNrpLxG11S-rbk-FZusKVTKxuNa9UOw/s640/polypretty.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNuZ28Ktf_r_iS_3HulGk4FqWOxaPxLrmCKOWb_RkTQUxXI1_yftAwDWNb-FFMps7f7T4TxaAZ2snJm4DrFg5n_nSbIYQwuIP6s4mW_F5WoEuI8kZ7Sev6zB0V37bLNu6kF5s14-02vgMcO7IckfNzrynxmg_JNrpLxG11S-rbk-FZusKVTKxuNa9UOw/s320/polypretty.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I can't work it out <span style="font-size: large;">😒.. </span>women with penises - men having babies, & guns <i><b><span style="color: #e69138;">causing</span></b></i> crime .. jeez.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Marty K.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-80499282838724819482023-12-22T20:24:00.000-08:002023-12-22T20:24:42.210-08:00Colt's FIRST METAL CARTRIDGE GUN .. Was A Derringer?<p> So - <b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">youse jokers</span></i></b> seem to like obscure detailed information about guns .. <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Colt's</span></i></b> are said to have sold more than 60,000 of these derringers between 1870 - 1912 having acquired <b><i>The National Arms</i></b> <b><i>Company</i></b> in 1870 <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Sam Colt had died 10 January 1862).</span> - The National Arms Co built some 30,000 brass framed derringers <u>before</u> Colt's takeover ... They also built <b><i>Moore's Patent Revolvers</i></b> in the .32/.41 <i><b><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: red; font-size: medium;">TEAT FIRE</span></b></i> cartridge - designed to beat the Rolin White Patent for drilled through chambers. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="740" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip9CprfX5nPqQCTYAk3Jy3YObmDrf53UsJOOeclhTn6phMHLW9xeO-YJXOz9QIRFgA1LdQQ6r2FbgJt9K6uBYiseaQzpGXi6YJOgu6FHq2bo7CZNwZqfkC3RJsgsau_123nBRMS4DfygB6xRCLZvvSumBTS0KsjthXBGGMlvuG7Ue6ik1r8fnaY_4Afg/w640-h244/Moores%20Patent%20Rev.jpeg" width="640" /></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The National Arms <i>Moores Patent</i> <i>Revolver</i> in .32 Teat Fire caliber:</span></b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe50mM8hjbS89oUk5TgMcmZ8utCZ2ff9JoqtwCg1g5XwIZyOqh1aNGyo11RARuHtCl_6lltKNcMiAz0wXptQxY5USCTHDOFQdl8H0sxrvaFvrR9cEPpowXq4Ksznvhb5xFB8Cl2j08e_WGwgz1mYM1n1xlzT0MtXeVgV0S1pFDYT_Vb2rKjHsHdcDiow/s1920/teats.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1920" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe50mM8hjbS89oUk5TgMcmZ8utCZ2ff9JoqtwCg1g5XwIZyOqh1aNGyo11RARuHtCl_6lltKNcMiAz0wXptQxY5USCTHDOFQdl8H0sxrvaFvrR9cEPpowXq4Ksznvhb5xFB8Cl2j08e_WGwgz1mYM1n1xlzT0MtXeVgV0S1pFDYT_Vb2rKjHsHdcDiow/w640-h206/teats.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">.32 Teat-Fire Cartridges - Designed by Daniel Moore & Patented by partner David Williamson in 1864 for the '<span style="background-color: white;">National Revolver' produced by Moore's Patent Fire Arms Company <u>and</u> by The NATIONAL ARMS Company of Brooklyn, New York.</span></b></div></span><p style="text-align: left;">Teat-Fire Cartridges were made <span style="font-size: x-small;">(by <i>Ethan Allen</i>)</span> in both .32 and .41 caliber - AND there were both ROUND TEAT & FLAT TEAT versions.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWATYWRBlMBGxCBO98M6suWFvdSqfgd9-HGcYsjuJiApbFTITz25Lk0J_kqjjWqMRTVNwgFiDOYJFaP09dS1Dz05T_XfmA1ev_au9XdHl7pgHOfv3PNjvAqCeMXz7mmdywTTl7MDfuOo0s508gnBEiIWLZqWV5kfnnxrpKZIZUKSG8YEqDCyUa8MqIOQ/s640/round%20&%20flat%20teat%20.32.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="640" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWATYWRBlMBGxCBO98M6suWFvdSqfgd9-HGcYsjuJiApbFTITz25Lk0J_kqjjWqMRTVNwgFiDOYJFaP09dS1Dz05T_XfmA1ev_au9XdHl7pgHOfv3PNjvAqCeMXz7mmdywTTl7MDfuOo0s508gnBEiIWLZqWV5kfnnxrpKZIZUKSG8YEqDCyUa8MqIOQ/w400-h199/round%20&%20flat%20teat%20.32.webp" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>These Are .32" Caliber .. four FLAT - two ROUND</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Teat Fire Cartridges were Made By Ethan Allen</span></b></div></b><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">First Two Below, </span><i style="text-align: left;">poor things↓</i><span style="text-align: left;"> - at far right the .41" has a Round one </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: #fcff01;">↓</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"> have Flat Teats<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #fcff01;">↓</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2LHKO1wwI8mWhdm2CmZZRTSSS8PlYmKiCuV2mPe3tx0imnRmZg4vUlNIwWJErD5or5P6ucqqEnq9Ji6jl8ORHXCE-7ydtPPfZPmuM_eRlsf_EZITY2sal8S-oJE-RxHkmXxzr5Bc03-zhvNAmFEut82LNRwWho8b29AfUQNVCk4cnn9S68OiD83f7-w/s707/Teatfire5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="707" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2LHKO1wwI8mWhdm2CmZZRTSSS8PlYmKiCuV2mPe3tx0imnRmZg4vUlNIwWJErD5or5P6ucqqEnq9Ji6jl8ORHXCE-7ydtPPfZPmuM_eRlsf_EZITY2sal8S-oJE-RxHkmXxzr5Bc03-zhvNAmFEut82LNRwWho8b29AfUQNVCk4cnn9S68OiD83f7-w/w400-h353/Teatfire5.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">Link to an *SUPERB* cartridge article:</p><p style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://www.oldammo.com/april10.htm" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://www.oldammo.com/april10.htm</a></p><p style="text-align: left;">These revolvers were popular during the American Civil War selling around 30,000 before <b><i>Colt's</i></b> bought the business. - The fulminate priming mixture was in the TEAT that projected through the back end of the cylinder chambers. - Another interesting link HERE: <a href="https://www.historynet.com/daniel-moore-challenged-big-boys-number-reliable-handguns/" style="background-color: #6fa8dc;">https://www.historynet.com/daniel-moore-challenged-big-boys-number-reliable-handguns/</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5778QF97JtWf9zPxtdO9tuUfqJIEuNaS57-FjGuEza0RcisxB1jlXUqbIDSlF5QenKmr7tTiYmJU7529kzVEMMz00F-x9iLpKuAqnHQBy7_WxBwXhZAVyQOHW57EVAFMfG9_gEUQUcPc-VDGod8WBA5HrZhBTGWd1jAqN2l3JcAn7aXyHPKLENKhyRw/s800/Derringer%20National%20Arms%20droit.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5778QF97JtWf9zPxtdO9tuUfqJIEuNaS57-FjGuEza0RcisxB1jlXUqbIDSlF5QenKmr7tTiYmJU7529kzVEMMz00F-x9iLpKuAqnHQBy7_WxBwXhZAVyQOHW57EVAFMfG9_gEUQUcPc-VDGod8WBA5HrZhBTGWd1jAqN2l3JcAn7aXyHPKLENKhyRw/w640-h426/Derringer%20National%20Arms%20droit.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The all-metal <i>National Arms Derringer</i> in .41 Rimfire:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>If you missed - you might use the gun as a KnuckleDuster ..</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="500" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgceF81ylQlchXZBoHl92RqKs5fWa2qpujqr9ewM_m83p7bewAAyAjNSb7_sFqmNCJYoFig_YXyqW2QzfIt8XyEIWDpDE2z0b_HzIt8pA01coDWBIeuN62bDU1M3ei2gKn5YLagwrKsxogPz9ESnEf_alIwzP2wSH3PwNH_9RYWPRLB15JQHVjqHIXpYw/w400-h305/Colt%201st%20Model%20Derringer.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i style="font-size: large;">Colt's</i><span style="font-size: medium;"> 1st Model Derringer .. with iron frame in .41 Rimfire ..</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="400" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvwmKU0NqoTWEflxs1GjRUQIUJTeCKUggl_S-JKl_AH1DmHp4skNxlpsn_aVUgBvhEYfBAQgL2hUeznR9nMjLSxUZ7Rk3k5LaGMLWIpr-Q2Ued9SE3s8mLNO04CmHhuVWLVwO950ahJsDJM-1o6-3_KKRSRcUBYguJ3gNjFVhPgSa9_XXzlkW4Ku6frQ/s320/400px-Colt_2nd_model_derringer.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Colt's</i> 2nd Model Derringer ..</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Originally manufactured by <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The National Arms Company</span></i></b> from 1860, but after they were acquired by <b><i>Colt</i></b> in 1870, production continued with these <i>Derringers</i> - but <b><i>Colt</i></b> changed the brass frames to iron. - Caliber was .41 inch rimfire?(I think)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzaHcVdJR-F5A3fcGYTaokUqwMQUcMXpnqJ1MivWERhQ4ZtKSWb0niRgMwnuj04f4omYRKa2b5tFoS16Ws9XjPtOMF-eN4SK4RVOp9kx7a0WnRbMce4yK7QwjX8lFCd1otvsGdRSF1ah5d2DezNu2aS54kRSPLCvZlfG2gRAi3QhjitS1dIAPibznZeA/s400/Colt%203rd%20Model%20Derringer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="400" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzaHcVdJR-F5A3fcGYTaokUqwMQUcMXpnqJ1MivWERhQ4ZtKSWb0niRgMwnuj04f4omYRKa2b5tFoS16Ws9XjPtOMF-eN4SK4RVOp9kx7a0WnRbMce4yK7QwjX8lFCd1otvsGdRSF1ah5d2DezNu2aS54kRSPLCvZlfG2gRAi3QhjitS1dIAPibznZeA/s320/Colt%203rd%20Model%20Derringer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Colt's</i> 3rd Model Derringer ..</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Also known as the Colt THUER Derringer:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Brass frame with a 2.5 inch steel barrel in<b> .41 Rimfire short</b> caliber .. deadly up close. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>- Thuer</i></b> developed the 'automic ejector' for this model .. Rumour states there were guns in .41 <b><u>center</u>fire</b> made for the British market.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZYjK8ZtDZsbydjb4WD3JBXW0_ppjT21IXxEquJf_TPJRRh_i650VNFnQea46KZqmGhyphenhyphengkSGfIN-V0rpyJruNKsYCzoxdV0ooMjQ8yrb0LXQ1PpQyJq3vamRsvAVyb5e9K7tY8KcOTlfKI6JF2wcDTUpk5k5lsF0h3nspoMCuvv4nf6s6vVz3dTVsKeQ/s891/3rd%20open.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="891" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZYjK8ZtDZsbydjb4WD3JBXW0_ppjT21IXxEquJf_TPJRRh_i650VNFnQea46KZqmGhyphenhyphengkSGfIN-V0rpyJruNKsYCzoxdV0ooMjQ8yrb0LXQ1PpQyJq3vamRsvAVyb5e9K7tY8KcOTlfKI6JF2wcDTUpk5k5lsF0h3nspoMCuvv4nf6s6vVz3dTVsKeQ/w200-h157/3rd%20open.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSV89bwnYfQ8F_Z6mF1hcOp5bC13dvRcDIILTFtrjUMI0WetNlHyUlktxI2Dzue61aBRDWQdSIq2QCN15i5Ny1kb8QMYNNlRRIWVZ-lSU4jC6SqaYcY6cehjwd8gOe87oWacbNiUPQOeHo4q5NrnEoZ5XrOjiinmN-9di2V42xDD1Ru8x3ND4hpaHqEA/s220/220px-.41_Rimfire_cartridge.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="220" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSV89bwnYfQ8F_Z6mF1hcOp5bC13dvRcDIILTFtrjUMI0WetNlHyUlktxI2Dzue61aBRDWQdSIq2QCN15i5Ny1kb8QMYNNlRRIWVZ-lSU4jC6SqaYcY6cehjwd8gOe87oWacbNiUPQOeHo4q5NrnEoZ5XrOjiinmN-9di2V42xDD1Ru8x3ND4hpaHqEA/s1600/220px-.41_Rimfire_cartridge.jpeg" width="220" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">.41 short - 130 grains soft lead, </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">13 gns black powder 111ft/lbs @ 685ft/sec.</span></b></div></b><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCVe8w59LKGClJBWgMJNRA4Q8dHHj8aYPOKzy7Gd8EtaY9i4Mv73hyCWuDg-wv0v8H7t1U2BkT_4GvqP-1PPm4nX_M2xwr_2Ar7D13pm9YnBr8JG_PbXPqnPYHlMbjZ_l3HPkhe8RKnBYS77e4CvBGBAZGf5vagaLmcBUIVogVZvcfTefyTGkRkZnS6w/s400/400px-Colt_4th_model_Lord_derringer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="400" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCVe8w59LKGClJBWgMJNRA4Q8dHHj8aYPOKzy7Gd8EtaY9i4Mv73hyCWuDg-wv0v8H7t1U2BkT_4GvqP-1PPm4nX_M2xwr_2Ar7D13pm9YnBr8JG_PbXPqnPYHlMbjZ_l3HPkhe8RKnBYS77e4CvBGBAZGf5vagaLmcBUIVogVZvcfTefyTGkRkZnS6w/s320/400px-Colt_4th_model_Lord_derringer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Then There Was Colt's 4th Model Derringer ..</span></b></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Released in 1959 in .22" Short rimfire - this <b><i>Colt</i></b> gun was<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;"> rubbish</span> ... or at least it was made of rubbish pot-metal <i style="font-weight: bold;">'ZAMAK' </i>zinc alloy - built to look pretty & sell - intended mainly for display. Despite their shortcomings AND THE FACT that these plated tinsel decorations were made by <b><i>BUTLER Assoc. Inc.</i></b> <u>for</u> <i><b>Colt's</b></i> - 1959-63. They sold well enough to justify a second production run 1970-73. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Plated Pot Metal</span></b> and Plastic fake Pearl Grips make me shudder. - Throughout this period <b><i>Colt's</i></b> was owned-controlled by <i>good-old</i><i> boys</i> PENN-TEXAS CORPORATION merging Fairbanks-Whitney Corporation - Colts Industries</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #999999; font-size: large;">"All that glisters is not gold"</b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> .. </span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bill Shakespeare</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gfaYvTjNJJXjvWjKTzyOjBBa7xecD9rrLJDveNqw9U3qylCZJoNO68uL_5RcK1u3Txz2zXDxJforeABT44CM6aqIBr7Mh8QWshzSDG2OtMsYooo8U7XYUS5jbTpzdQkHGFTufCs-Yk1fPTZAO0STppjej6I58Jixwh0gJPdKdyq0PFzTiXP3Nyb-XQ/s696/4th%20M%20Colt%20Derringer%20open.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="696" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gfaYvTjNJJXjvWjKTzyOjBBa7xecD9rrLJDveNqw9U3qylCZJoNO68uL_5RcK1u3Txz2zXDxJforeABT44CM6aqIBr7Mh8QWshzSDG2OtMsYooo8U7XYUS5jbTpzdQkHGFTufCs-Yk1fPTZAO0STppjej6I58Jixwh0gJPdKdyq0PFzTiXP3Nyb-XQ/s320/4th%20M%20Colt%20Derringer%20open.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white;">- Even after </span><b style="background-color: white;"><i>Colt</i></b><span style="background-color: white;"> stopped putting their name on that silly gat</span><span style="background-color: white;">, <b><i>Butler Assoc. Inc.</i></b> built even more, under their own label <b><u>and</u></b> they made a better fist of it than <b><i>Colt</i></b> - by actually adding a <b><span style="font-size: medium;">steel barrel liner</span> </b>in <b><i>some</i></b> of the earlier guns<b> - </b>that you might confirm with a magnet ...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-size: large;">NO</b> - <i><b>Butlers</b></i> didn't "<i>copy</i>" <b><i>Colt's</i></b> - they just carried-on making them without Colt.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfnoqTaAFKj0u_5OL-yTKo5msxQtk30SrWk69LyPd36cC45qzqR-sFOF1itN8bbrjaWhvuA4AiDv33XHJQA17b_KrZQBVMHw9SsxMujQ6sluAmO7qNCu47M5GvhlXuwO9uen_bNvUyqyMjloZSCfo4Rj7njVsR_VoRnyNUTe4k7lrjIcMpz4rM15jgA/s301/butler%20ad.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="301" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfnoqTaAFKj0u_5OL-yTKo5msxQtk30SrWk69LyPd36cC45qzqR-sFOF1itN8bbrjaWhvuA4AiDv33XHJQA17b_KrZQBVMHw9SsxMujQ6sluAmO7qNCu47M5GvhlXuwO9uen_bNvUyqyMjloZSCfo4Rj7njVsR_VoRnyNUTe4k7lrjIcMpz4rM15jgA/s1600/butler%20ad.jpeg" width="301" /></a></div><span style="color: #b45f06;">Bubba wants one <i>'cos they purty' </i>and R L Wilson would have sold and certified him one - a Sam Coults "personal carry pistol" for ten thousand greenbacks eh.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span>- I'm too polite to mention the 1998<b> BOYCOTT</b> of <b><i>Colt</i></b> products ..<br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">P.S.:</span><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i>Ethan Allen, Gunmaker - also Patented and made the <b><span style="font-size: medium;">LIPFIRE</span></b> Cartridge as an improved alternative to Pinfire Cartridges that might still try to get around that pesky patent ..</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGsu54bYV5gUj7_NQYIcdkIgicu05xNWm4lOtBiqFXaWeyW4XewVSy_JBMD3BnninMAR9YARTHNzMgQOrk7_VOCDEA6iT8qjk8urh-8ZyI0uI6rIZCHQ6rVqiu7B1_uQeelpRzalxFEcxDR80R9-XqyIaKA9x23DYMdDXnOm0LtBZeSQg-8_77f3TWQ/s375/lipfire.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="375" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGsu54bYV5gUj7_NQYIcdkIgicu05xNWm4lOtBiqFXaWeyW4XewVSy_JBMD3BnninMAR9YARTHNzMgQOrk7_VOCDEA6iT8qjk8urh-8ZyI0uI6rIZCHQ6rVqiu7B1_uQeelpRzalxFEcxDR80R9-XqyIaKA9x23DYMdDXnOm0LtBZeSQg-8_77f3TWQ/s320/lipfire.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><i>M.K</i><br /><i><br /></i></b></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-38850980178320457772023-12-19T13:45:00.000-08:002023-12-19T14:09:01.262-08:00Rollin White's Patent Was Both OBSTRUCTIVE & QUESTIONABLE:<p><b><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span><span style="color: red;">H</span><span style="color: #38761d;">appy </span><span style="color: red;">H</span><span style="color: #38761d;">olidays </span><span style="color: red;">e</span><span style="color: #38761d;">veryone</span></b> .. I'm not a Patent Lawyer .. but I reckon multiple firearms designers and makers got a raw deal in 19th century America. - Nobody seems to care about REALITY and FACT anymore ..</p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">1/-</span> <i>Rollin White </i></b>patented a design on April 3 1855 that was a laughably inept design - for loading Paper Cartridges from the cylinder's rear, - where the instant the first chamber is fired THEY ALL WENT OFF as the flame front travelled through the soft wrappings. </p><p>- But later <b><u>two</u></b> of his patents <b><u>did</u></b> include <i>through boring</i> of the cylinder and that held the attention of <b><i>Smith & Wesson</i></b> who paid <b><i>White</i></b> 25 cents 'license' for every gun they sold using that feature for their Metallic Cartridge guns - these did work.</p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">2/-</span></b> Now the simple fact is that over in France - <b><i>Eugine Lefaucheux</i></b> had already patented his pinfire revolver design in both Paris and London, having a bored through cylinder <span style="font-size: medium;"><i>nearly a full year earlier,</i></span> on April 15, 1854.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzmL2TzbHqqsRRLEtfVg5W8RjicSA9CisrlE6K6cwvP7JDyzWY6uXnOOS8EW7cvTsVkdisLhcBy24qwmjKLMgNwYKCss0R9Cl5lMRGRVcXZ5hDBr7kQ672ZiK42JK67y6S9UADvHtpNTrH5ObMdoS-18G6EGEKlQYqkidTtFGssaRhWCMG7qdVypq8Fw/s700/lefaucheux-model-1854_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="700" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzmL2TzbHqqsRRLEtfVg5W8RjicSA9CisrlE6K6cwvP7JDyzWY6uXnOOS8EW7cvTsVkdisLhcBy24qwmjKLMgNwYKCss0R9Cl5lMRGRVcXZ5hDBr7kQ672ZiK42JK67y6S9UADvHtpNTrH5ObMdoS-18G6EGEKlQYqkidTtFGssaRhWCMG7qdVypq8Fw/s320/lefaucheux-model-1854_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>- <b><i>Lefaucheux </i></b>did <b>not</b> register his design in America.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYm7FMwdlxe5U5JQVhDtTZLpsvg4n5za-yJNvx5yV2S3FTZ7jBBlhEgFWKlLsl_aOwL2IaB8xg0gnGvjH0asD7REgmHW5ENPL2SepGBgyzixlV0W7QnW1SWtmSlOqR5hHH0uE8NwzohyaKvv7bcZJGXRC3e48gb3x7U0ObeAgIgnu7Dm8I2Tcy5DPWyA/s1280/van_goghs_gun.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYm7FMwdlxe5U5JQVhDtTZLpsvg4n5za-yJNvx5yV2S3FTZ7jBBlhEgFWKlLsl_aOwL2IaB8xg0gnGvjH0asD7REgmHW5ENPL2SepGBgyzixlV0W7QnW1SWtmSlOqR5hHH0uE8NwzohyaKvv7bcZJGXRC3e48gb3x7U0ObeAgIgnu7Dm8I2Tcy5DPWyA/w640-h360/van_goghs_gun.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b>This <i>relic</i> Lefaucheux Pinfire Revolver, said to have taken the life of mentally unstable painter <span style="font-size: medium;">Vincent</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Van Gough in 1890</span> - sold at auction for 162,000 euros in 2019.</b><div><b> - This is another <i>'Rabbit Hole'</i> about Tall Tales, Revolvers and TRUTH; </b><div><b><a href="https://flicense.blogspot.com/2019/06/van-gogh-revolver-sells-well-at-auction.html" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://flicense.blogspot.com/2019/06/van-gogh-revolver-sells-well-at-auction.html</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Facts indicate that </span><i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Gawd botherer </span></i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Van Gough almost certainly did </span><b style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-size: medium;">not</span></b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> shoot himself .. nor likely did he previously cut-off his own ear .. the nutter had lied to excuse </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"friends"</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">.</span></div><div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>3/-<i> </i></b></span>The fact that this earlier Lefaucheux Patent was not registered in USA, was accepted as to invalidate it there - BUT in appealing against the U S restriction - that earlier European Registration <i><u>SHOULD</u></i> have proven <b><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">'</span></i></b><b style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">PRIOR ART' </b>that<b style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large; font-style: italic;"> </b>invalidates granting <i style="font-weight: bold;">Rollin White</i> any legal claim or rights.</p><p>Many thousands of these French patented bored-through Pinfire Revolvers were imported into America for use by both sides of the 1862-65 Civil War - despite that American patent limitation.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh42Zfru19YqKE9lZYKmrN1hAgls9zoQPhjGBXdRIY3t2SzxTVOuxU2nTC9JOuipHZlwjZmU7fB0dXqjZkWlOF8fQcsBPa45bkS4BrRKjOxAHfwfJvVFdJpowAs4h4IoMgqO6A1kLG_7eeTNYmhCKy8Uce24NiTfdPG1tTbHnQEQhzpQN-d5SfU1sOLRQ/s1600/a-very-nice-antique-19th-century-belgian-pinfire-revolver-on-the-cylinder-the-guardian-american-model-of-1878-5-shot-caliber-7-mm-length-17-cm-in-very-good-condition-price-550-euro-7490791-en-max.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="1600" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh42Zfru19YqKE9lZYKmrN1hAgls9zoQPhjGBXdRIY3t2SzxTVOuxU2nTC9JOuipHZlwjZmU7fB0dXqjZkWlOF8fQcsBPa45bkS4BrRKjOxAHfwfJvVFdJpowAs4h4IoMgqO6A1kLG_7eeTNYmhCKy8Uce24NiTfdPG1tTbHnQEQhzpQN-d5SfU1sOLRQ/s320/a-very-nice-antique-19th-century-belgian-pinfire-revolver-on-the-cylinder-the-guardian-american-model-of-1878-5-shot-caliber-7-mm-length-17-cm-in-very-good-condition-price-550-euro-7490791-en-max.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Belgian Liege built <i>American Model </i>Pinfire Revolver</b></div></b><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Rollin White </i>was yet another greedy liar who got lucky after stealing scrap <b><i>Colt</i></b> cylinders to develop his design - he made commercial life miserable for Smith & Wesson, - tried to cheat <b><i>Colt's</i></b> again by selling them <u>one</u> of his patents for a million bucks THAT WAS WORTHLESS WITHOUT THE SECOND PATENT - then he'd have had a go at getting another million from them .. all for his <span style="font-size: medium;"><u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">failed design</u>.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe0Ajx7j65gHROoFdNm7XEEE75eobOd0P-UqcorTTYvjD_fFUCdJjoLdm_P7qUVT7lgPdyr5HCWkORJ1Ze5s05niAd5qcu_0fQ1Ce7Z4HQKRaVvvjj-hhSB-ITUwoLjSOAQjDtqCUS67rXPMnEoR1QN47h-z510L4n6sXiak2khytENBdLAkuW3A-plQ/s275/1%2012%20open.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe0Ajx7j65gHROoFdNm7XEEE75eobOd0P-UqcorTTYvjD_fFUCdJjoLdm_P7qUVT7lgPdyr5HCWkORJ1Ze5s05niAd5qcu_0fQ1Ce7Z4HQKRaVvvjj-hhSB-ITUwoLjSOAQjDtqCUS67rXPMnEoR1QN47h-z510L4n6sXiak2khytENBdLAkuW3A-plQ/w400-h266/1%2012%20open.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">S&W Model 1</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1/2</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">from 1865 in .32 Rimfire Metallic Cartridge </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">... Bored Through Cylinder:</span></b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlQ0l7AVJAdRavr2E5TKhCICJ1Yio3F7KbD52a-_-wRPcALqiwizJhyhD_hC5qf9mkoeFNKq8dbvt8bsZmWCVc0r5YDsweCyW9X1VvNV_Y540cGNVE3SOfrkBfPak5kDRvv-48XuAcurvv2Yg8IEbz1oXmX_Br_an-Z0wN49rsFIr0t8sLD6ibED1kQ/s640/s-w-model-1-in-the-shop-for-refinishing-considering-how-v0-u0kpwtd3w4gb1.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlQ0l7AVJAdRavr2E5TKhCICJ1Yio3F7KbD52a-_-wRPcALqiwizJhyhD_hC5qf9mkoeFNKq8dbvt8bsZmWCVc0r5YDsweCyW9X1VvNV_Y540cGNVE3SOfrkBfPak5kDRvv-48XuAcurvv2Yg8IEbz1oXmX_Br_an-Z0wN49rsFIr0t8sLD6ibED1kQ/s320/s-w-model-1-in-the-shop-for-refinishing-considering-how-v0-u0kpwtd3w4gb1.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">S&W Model 1 from 1857</span></div><p style="text-align: left;">At least the U S lawyers refused a further patent extension .. Such is life eh</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZcwEUYf_ZlGOCMWm58yylki5jICZw98dQNf9Cuf7Gx2n5a9y1phAIOVJuA0FYearRvSGH5BM8pisXUhd4QjO7HIY3DcKyWVbl8_ShdZIkeKgPu2EXYHp9sf95yHQM0Ge1VSlDEBvcEBWhGZwRuE9J6DYSPSYe1l3CCFI2Jh7s3o5A4DTg4toCvJ7WA/s236/nutter%20with%20pipe.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="214" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZcwEUYf_ZlGOCMWm58yylki5jICZw98dQNf9Cuf7Gx2n5a9y1phAIOVJuA0FYearRvSGH5BM8pisXUhd4QjO7HIY3DcKyWVbl8_ShdZIkeKgPu2EXYHp9sf95yHQM0Ge1VSlDEBvcEBWhGZwRuE9J6DYSPSYe1l3CCFI2Jh7s3o5A4DTg4toCvJ7WA/s1600/nutter%20with%20pipe.jpeg" width="214" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Nutter without ear, with pipe, burning vegetation </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> Before slow death from shooting ..</b></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></span></p></div></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-9001784203603473022023-12-15T12:41:00.000-08:002023-12-15T15:07:51.092-08:00Colt's 1st, 2nd, & 3rd (Signature Series) - Generation Percussion Revolvers:<p> Starter <b>JOKE </b>from <i>Jay Leno</i>: <i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Doctor said - "I'm going to need a URINE sample .. a SEMEN sample .. and a FAECES sample". </span></i><i><span style="color: #990000;">- So, I gave him my underpants ...</span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46xpyiriMJKiPBOwJj5v1upay7lM5eU_o2mvU4bkVAAuzjpYUjz2_CKjnVsbeqJdxANpBUJ_lxBEjRVv0mH9WVuke7AZiISusj0RcI3aN3G6cOmFshrjhWYosAbx3j98LFDlTYYUplA1K8DPJMteBjzsuhk4d40_0IjO7hQSDTIN7uEJVa1a3E5Jerw/s1024/Colt_Model_1851_Navy_Percussion_Revolver,_serial_no._2_MET_LC-68_157_2-014.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="1024" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46xpyiriMJKiPBOwJj5v1upay7lM5eU_o2mvU4bkVAAuzjpYUjz2_CKjnVsbeqJdxANpBUJ_lxBEjRVv0mH9WVuke7AZiISusj0RcI3aN3G6cOmFshrjhWYosAbx3j98LFDlTYYUplA1K8DPJMteBjzsuhk4d40_0IjO7hQSDTIN7uEJVa1a3E5Jerw/w640-h376/Colt_Model_1851_Navy_Percussion_Revolver,_serial_no._2_MET_LC-68_157_2-014.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Colt Revolving Navy Pistol</i> (1851)</span></b></p><p>Quiet often I come across <i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">'</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">misguided'</span></i> claims about <i style="font-weight: bold;">Colt </i>Percussion Revolvers and their values that annoy me. These spurious beliefs upset me because - for some reason, I've grown-up to hate liers & hypocrites. - This may be a hangover from going to a Catholic Grammer School run by some very nasty Jesuits and vicious lay teachers. - In all fairness - perhaps more than the two that I remember, may have been decent men doing a good job.</p><p>I am NOT an expert. - THE number one such <i><b>Colt </b>author & </i><i>expert</i> RL Wilson is now exposed as a swindler, faker, liar, and thief .. but sadly many folk still quote his expertise. So much of our recorded story is written from marketing material and doubtful sales talk as to be more myth than history. <span style="color: #b45f06;"><i>"When you mix clean water with dirty water - you get dirty water".</i></span></p><p>This is a wide field so I'm focusing my research mainly to the <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">1851 Navy</span></i></b> 36 Caliber guns that were originally designed & made by <i style="font-weight: bold;">Colt </i>in their Connecticut factories between 1850-1873. They were of the <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1st Generation.</b></span> The East Armory building at Harford was completed <b>1855</b> and destroyed in the 1864 fire.</p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">2nd Generation: </span></b><b style="font-family: Montserrat, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tales of how Colt's dusted off their old tooling dating from 1851 and began remaking new guns at Hartford in 1970, would have been very interesting - had that tooling not been destroyed when the fire razed most of the factory on Feb. 4, 1864.</span></i></b></p><p>These <i><u>were</u></i> manufactured and <u>assembled</u> in the <b><i>Colt</i></b> factory between 1971-1982 <span style="font-size: medium;">using parts imported</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">from </span><i style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Uberti</span> </i><span>of </span>Brescia Italy, by Val Forgett of <b><i>Navy Arms</i></b> 1971-1973.</p><p>T<b>hen</b> <i>Lou Imperato</i> supplied them, still from Italy 1973-76. - Production was then transferred to <i>Lou Imperato's</i> <b><i>Iver Johnson Arms</i></b> factory in New Jersey from 1978-1982 where they were manufactered with some U S made parts, fully to <b><i>Colt's</i></b> quality control and final inspection - and these <b><u>are</u></b> recognised and authenticated as genuine <b><i>Colts.</i></b></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><b style="font-size: small;"><i>It is likely that Louis Imperato bought Iver Johnson Arms in 1973. - </i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Louis & his son Anthony Imperato started </span>HENRY<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>REPEATING ARMS<span style="font-size: x-small;"> in 1998 moving it to NJ in 2008.</span></i></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><b><i>Armi San Marco <span style="font-size: x-small;">date from around 1960 in Italy - and </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Replica Arms of El Paso who first imported ASM into America, was started by L.F. Allen. This was sold and moved to Marietta, OH., and then, in around 1973, was sold to Navy Arms. Allen then started Western Arms which became Allen Arms, and then to Cimarron?</span></i></b></span></p><p><span><b><i><span style="background-color: #01ffff; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Both Uberti and Pietta seem to be currently owned by BENELLI - who are owned by BERETTA ..</span></i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">3rd Generation:</span><span> Imperato's <b><i>'</i></b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Colt Blackpowder Arms Co.' </i>(1993-2004? not <i><b><u>Colt</u></b></i>) manufactured this "3rd Generation" at the NJ <b><i>Iver</i></b> <b><i>Johnson</i></b> factory. - <i><b>Armi San Marco</b></i> built many parts marked <b><i>Colt</i></b> for Imperato but this contract failed - leading to <i>ASM</i> building & selling a quantity of guns stamped '<b><i>Colt</i></b>'. Here things get very messy and legally involved. - Imperato planned to get these guns fully built by <b><i>A Uberti</i></b> in Italy and many <i><b>Colt</b></i> marked revolvers were built having the <b><i>Uberti</i></b> name under the barrel. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0e0f;">It was in NJ that all F Series standard production models were manufactured as The Authentic Colt Blackpowder Series. These new F Series <b>2nd Generation</b> models came in black cardboard boxes with dark gray foam rubber inserts and featured Sam Colt's portrait and signature on the lid and end label.</span></span></p><p><span>I understand that the <b><i>Colt</i></b> Factory do not accept this 3rd series of guns as of <b><i>Colt</i></b> Manufacture.</span></p><p><span><span face="Inter, Helvetica, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #383a3b;">2nd Gen. <b>C series</b> </span><i style="color: #383a3b;">were</i><span style="color: #383a3b;"> assembled in Hartford. They have Colt's Royal Blue finish on barrel, cylinder, trigger, wedge and screws. </span><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The</span></b><span style="color: #383a3b;"> </span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">F Series were assembled in Middlesex, NJ and have the darker Colt Blue finish. </span><span><span style="font-size: 14px;">These guns are authenticated by </span><b style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Colt</i></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">. - BUT - the current <i><b>Colt</b></i> Company is owned & controlled by </span><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">CZ </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">- Is <i>it</i> - that company, <i>authentic</i>?</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383a3b;"><b>3rd Generation</b> Revolvers are generally known as <i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Signature Series</span></b></i> guns.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383a3b;">There is ongoing debate about the <b><span style="font-size: medium;">status</span></b> and values of both 2nd & 3rd Generation Revolvers. Most accept that 2nd Gen guns, authenticated by Colt are genuine ... but many enthusiasts consider that 3rd Gen <i>Signature</i> series pistols fall between the 'real thing' and the wholly made in Italy <b><u>replicas</u></b>..</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383a3b;"><b style="font-size: large;">Quality:</b> I've been around guns for some 66 years .. I've seen much praise for <b><i>Col</i></b>t quality <i style="font-weight: bold;">and </i>lots of adverse comment and complaints about these later production guns - so I'd opine that many are excellent but some have faults & issues. The antique originals in my hands sure have their issues too - no surprise there then. No <i>'for profit'</i> manufacturer WANTS to spend <u>his</u> money paying for unproductive Quality Control. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #383a3b;">To date I own three <b>original antique</b> <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Colt</span></i></b> percussion revolvers and would love to have more to care-for.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPuQIS6rhPouKRais39_3pR5Tt9l71o44SikuAoM0n9_VSRKJSRQzK1QJLOPQTj8JPEP1upZetQi8eDYAXrnWczE6jH1STW3d1sV2f2QfX4VOmrHiF92JaC8OYgPcCkx6uIN_S3rb1YMV7nSbemuKjllvMOQAy9F6osIHYqcr4VtuineVMGRi0tYOkfA/s300/Colt_Navy_Model_1861%20(1).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="123" data-original-width="300" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPuQIS6rhPouKRais39_3pR5Tt9l71o44SikuAoM0n9_VSRKJSRQzK1QJLOPQTj8JPEP1upZetQi8eDYAXrnWczE6jH1STW3d1sV2f2QfX4VOmrHiF92JaC8OYgPcCkx6uIN_S3rb1YMV7nSbemuKjllvMOQAy9F6osIHYqcr4VtuineVMGRi0tYOkfA/w640-h262/Colt_Navy_Model_1861%20(1).JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div>In my experience - revolvers built by <i><b>Uberti</b></i>, <b><i>Pietta</i></b>, and <i><b>Armi San Marco</b></i> are fine percussion revolvers and well worth the money - once tuned a little.<p></p><p>- Now I wonder how the <i>experts</i> feel about the <i><b>Colts</b></i> made under licence in Belgium as <b><i>Colt Brevete</i></b> guns .. authorised and stamped by the Colt representative.</p><p> <b><i>Marty K.</i></b></p>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-42959329138079481332023-12-11T17:47:00.000-08:002023-12-11T17:47:03.251-08:00SHOOTING IS SIMPLY AN ENERGETIC PROCESS:<p> <i style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">te tari pureke </i>- that may also be refered to as 'The Firearms Safety Authority' is building a costly <b>REGISTRY</b> or a list of guns lawfully owned. - This might also be titled an <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><b><i>INVENTORY. </i></b></span>- I wonder how close the word <b><span style="font-size: large;">invention</span></b><b style="font-size: large;"> </b>is associated to the word <b style="font-size: large;">inventory </b>?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>______________________</b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>HOT AIR: </b></span>So when we use our living bodies - they are making <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">ENERGY</span> by the <i><span style="font-size: medium;">oxidation</span> </i>of carbohydrates - together with our stored fats, that we eat - by <i>cellular respiration </i>as we digest .. As we <span style="color: #e06666;">warm</span> our bodies we give off carbon dioxide GAS & WATER by breathing out. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3cjzx9MT49mgSkit_G2g4O1VxebupqBEzngP-zWbLUO36qmX2esvhcqFdpXP_RBq04yY9GavIRvX_sS7Z2aU6ob7FkYXh4r1aGSpPKZke5IHq-WQQDA61NTsRaf1mQH9e3Erz-KJ9e1A5_9mX1Jtod3vn4lumMGMfWHABVNWbaGLa2ufG35LGA9A4Q/s275/hot%20air.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ3cjzx9MT49mgSkit_G2g4O1VxebupqBEzngP-zWbLUO36qmX2esvhcqFdpXP_RBq04yY9GavIRvX_sS7Z2aU6ob7FkYXh4r1aGSpPKZke5IHq-WQQDA61NTsRaf1mQH9e3Erz-KJ9e1A5_9mX1Jtod3vn4lumMGMfWHABVNWbaGLa2ufG35LGA9A4Q/s1600/hot%20air.jpeg" width="275" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: red; color: #fcff01;">HOT</span> AIR</b></div></b><p>- When we light a fire and burn something <i>ORGANIC </i>such as wood - we achieve complete COMBUSTION by the <i><span style="font-size: medium;">oxidation</span> </i>of that compound into carbon dioxide GAS and WATER (as steam) and make heat <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">ENERGY</span>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA4YbTzTe-b099z3CikxHlXGiW1B8xLW1NMT1w6ELnMGGdGEFFiQDffvOugbaxzJvUWmZILUcaWeiZFKvhuH7LVBzVDzGWK_ieowAGA0sS1elAEdovWuzAUqBM9mXuHpenf30rxDE-LboqWsDeMIGhHn7NAipmUsLgEMIkK9cGwkRoWpeOjK7qXpH_YQ/s277/images%20(18).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="277" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA4YbTzTe-b099z3CikxHlXGiW1B8xLW1NMT1w6ELnMGGdGEFFiQDffvOugbaxzJvUWmZILUcaWeiZFKvhuH7LVBzVDzGWK_ieowAGA0sS1elAEdovWuzAUqBM9mXuHpenf30rxDE-LboqWsDeMIGhHn7NAipmUsLgEMIkK9cGwkRoWpeOjK7qXpH_YQ/s1600/images%20(18).jpeg" width="277" /></a></div><p>Shooting BULLETS from a gun has been done for some 6 - 700 years using <span style="font-size: large;">"antique propellant"</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #999999;"> </span><span><b style="background-color: #999999;"><span style="color: #fcff01;">G</span><span style="color: red;">U</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">N</span> <span style="color: red;">P</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">O</span><span style="color: red;">W</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">D</span><span style="color: red;">E</span><span style="color: #fcff01;">R </span></b></span></span> that <b>very rapidly </b>releases amounts of heat, light, and sound energy by EXPLOSIVE COMBUSTION (complete <i><span style="font-size: medium;">oxidation</span></i>) .. this results from the <b><u><span style="color: red;">rapid</span></u></b> generation of <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">ENERGY</span> as a large volume of hot GAS and WATER.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzDoSQpRqS4PxNaeoAeryjJ4j6vz-bkUYHb_1ADiLoWxHvWNVr4g7ZZ8zQVURxFdMmO-PMhvdKCR9w1_tWiO7pLJ1JWKLGtzm9XjVvOZOb246NQ4MkjQm6MtJhgTG5doDRLkin7xu_PYj-7jzU2KCI1_Ox2-eY_9dswHHz4UV775ZZMXTjI9_7FxZeVw/s360/Flintlock-1-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="360" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzDoSQpRqS4PxNaeoAeryjJ4j6vz-bkUYHb_1ADiLoWxHvWNVr4g7ZZ8zQVURxFdMmO-PMhvdKCR9w1_tWiO7pLJ1JWKLGtzm9XjVvOZOb246NQ4MkjQm6MtJhgTG5doDRLkin7xu_PYj-7jzU2KCI1_Ox2-eY_9dswHHz4UV775ZZMXTjI9_7FxZeVw/s320/Flintlock-1-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="text-align: left;">These three very different physical processes are </span><span style="text-align: left;"><u>similar</u> CHEMICAL </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">oxidation</span> </i>process's ..</span></b></div><p>Hard to believe eh, - but that's science. - When we EAT, the food stuff needs to be <i style="font-size: large;">tasty </i>- When we light a fire to get heat - that fuel stuff needs to be <span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>dry</b></i></span> - And when we want our <b>antique propellant </b>to <u>rapidly</u> combust <b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: red;">explosively</span></b> and to powerfully push-out our bullets or shot - we need to blend an exact amount of <i>oxidizer</i> to feed oxygen to the FUEL <b>fast</b> & in the correct ratio, while in <i style="font-size: x-large;">intimate contact </i>and <span style="font-size: large;"><i>confined.</i></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">75% Potassium Nitrate KNO</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span> <span style="font-size: large;">-</span> <span style="font-size: large;">15% Charcoal - 10% Sulfer.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Oxidizer Fuel accelerant, by lowering combustion temperature</span></p><p></p><div id="9mw4ZYKzNqrlseMP6bmA2Ao__5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="g" style="clear: both; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-align: left; width: 600px;"><div data-hveid="CAwQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiChqnlg5CCAxWqcmwGHekcAKsQFSgAegQIDBAA" lang="en"><div class="tF2Cxc" style="position: relative;"><div class="yuRUbf" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.58;"></div></div></div></div></div><p></p><div id="9mw4ZYKzNqrlseMP6bmA2Ao__4" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #202124; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="wDYxhc" data-md="61" style="clear: none;"><div aria-level="3" class="LGOjhe" data-attrid="wa:/description" data-hveid="CA8QAA" role="heading" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px;"><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en" style="color: #4d5156; line-height: 24px;"><span class="hgKElc" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;">A litre of gunpowder will weigh about a kilo/two pounds - during combustion it produces 44% of it's weight in GAS .. </span><b style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #040c28; font-weight: 500;">400 litres</b><span style="background-color: white;"> of gas. This gas - being heated to around 2,400 degrees, occupies a space of some </span><b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: large;">4,000</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> litres: consequently the volume of powder is to the volume of gas produced by its combustion as 1 to 4,000.</span></span></span></span>Now - This <b><span style="font-size: medium;">propellant</span></b> is a <i style="font-size: large;">MIXTURE </i>of<i style="font-size: large;"> </i><i>individual</i><i style="font-size: large;"> </i>substances<span style="font-size: large;"> -</span><i style="font-size: large;"> </i>not a chemical compound .. so we need to help the stuff to do it's best. - Each component needs to be finely ground and then <u>thoroughly</u> mixed together in a BALL MILL.Then either COMPRESS the damp mixture into <i>Pucks </i>to make it DENSE - and break it up when dried and pass through a SIEVE to grade it ... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMorl9tNxe8Djf2bXaX9i-U_6F0ir-ghBUJwCttUTi0taTbBRz96hYW7dyPoj1NN4EmBIHfCfQV0Q1iXyohfkzPAcZD7IGH_tq3pA-eVIlZ95ECqj_j8wIG2bag7ldfgjfuxaKm7GTQnvZblspqfhiRnd-FMKf45aorbPtgRhyphenhyphenu1hxQM7Ir_GZ-45L2A/s640/pucks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMorl9tNxe8Djf2bXaX9i-U_6F0ir-ghBUJwCttUTi0taTbBRz96hYW7dyPoj1NN4EmBIHfCfQV0Q1iXyohfkzPAcZD7IGH_tq3pA-eVIlZ95ECqj_j8wIG2bag7ldfgjfuxaKm7GTQnvZblspqfhiRnd-FMKf45aorbPtgRhyphenhyphenu1hxQM7Ir_GZ-45L2A/s320/pucks.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div aria-level="3" class="LGOjhe" data-attrid="wa:/description" data-hveid="CA8QAA" role="heading" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px;"></div></div></div><b style="font-size: large;">OR - </b><span>employ</span> the safer <i style="font-weight: bold;">CIA Method </i>using methylated alcohol to clump the milled powder like clay and grate it through your sieves while damp.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZlqzdknlHMbAK0JLouDtRqpu5A3z622krNHzjHzO9ibwHvhP4Krpu5f-bGD2vAmnsLO8r8WbXRuPcGaHqsiB6aXSf3XYTD40-3mv8Nqoy4c7UyjsEn6CAA9pfLbNOrvhe8e4a7NIFTmz6aBXTtyGA3KeyaLRQCZ-z0Pti3TR4QGu_cEx1KSNE7DiXdA/s259/download%20(24).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZlqzdknlHMbAK0JLouDtRqpu5A3z622krNHzjHzO9ibwHvhP4Krpu5f-bGD2vAmnsLO8r8WbXRuPcGaHqsiB6aXSf3XYTD40-3mv8Nqoy4c7UyjsEn6CAA9pfLbNOrvhe8e4a7NIFTmz6aBXTtyGA3KeyaLRQCZ-z0Pti3TR4QGu_cEx1KSNE7DiXdA/w320-h240/download%20(24).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Job Done .. but as either way involves mechanical breaking apart of the now <b><span style="background-color: red; color: #fcff01;">explosive</span></b> mixture - MAXIMUM CARE is needed.</p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> <b>Fouling: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The solid byproducts from gunpowder combustion may include </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">potassium carbonate</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span>potassium sulfate<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">potassium sulfide</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><u>sulfur</u></span><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><u>potassium nitrate</u></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">potassium thiocyanate</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">carbon</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><span style="background-color: white;">&</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">ammonium</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">carbonate</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">- these are mostly </span><b><span style="background-color: #04ff00; color: #38761d;">SALTS</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"> ..</span></span></p><p>You might want to know why some of these 56% sooty residues left in your black-powder gun are so corrosive - if not promptly removed by cleaning ... Well these compounds are HYGROSCOPIC and hold water in contact with your gun's steel. </p><p>However, consider this - in 1746 John Roebuck developed a new system for making SULFURIC ACID .. <span style="background-color: white;">Roebuck mixed <b><span style="font-size: medium;">sulfur</span></b> with a small amount of <b><span style="font-size: medium;">saltpeter KnO</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span></b> on a ladle, ignited it, and placed it on a tray in the bottom of a lead chamber. Water on the floor of the chamber absorbed the gases. This operation was repeated several times, and then he withdrew the acidulated liquor, <b>- which contained about 35–45% <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>sulfuric acid</i></span>. </b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Sulfuric acid likes to eat steel gun barrels .. so be energetic when cleaning your guns.</span></p><p><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></p><p><span><br /></span></p>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4054064001812636668.post-5652609214175006082023-12-07T11:51:00.000-08:002023-12-07T21:22:03.239-08:00DIY SHARPSHOOTER Percussion Cap-Primers ex USA: TEST.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEildo6X6tfsu8gTgxIp5-DqvicRjt-zoEotP90FjuQCEYOmaWHRdP9MO2Rhwagun4vZcRN-1tvDEf5yDTvHnuHSPN451KrhsfPiGmKLZ8pFGUE0nmIbDYiQRdwDBluEEZwI8TkBrnha_9t0b-b3F0K3sE-_0xq8XIdwHTKu3n_-IHC1avXy_r0EBIyuTg/s251/download%20(30).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="251" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEildo6X6tfsu8gTgxIp5-DqvicRjt-zoEotP90FjuQCEYOmaWHRdP9MO2Rhwagun4vZcRN-1tvDEf5yDTvHnuHSPN451KrhsfPiGmKLZ8pFGUE0nmIbDYiQRdwDBluEEZwI8TkBrnha_9t0b-b3F0K3sE-_0xq8XIdwHTKu3n_-IHC1avXy_r0EBIyuTg/s1600/download%20(30).jpeg" width="251" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: medium;"> FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS A TIN ?? </span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">- That's Our Future:</span></b></div></b><p>Back at the start of November 2023 - I <i>"internet ordered"</i> from America, a tool to make No.11 size PERCUSSION CAPS - plus 3x kits of the <b><i>PRIME-ALL </i></b>chemicals needed to mix & fill them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0tvCoUeFJG7sl3r_6ZzxNpGXn8viElV28dOqJ2vYCoG0YJeW_09N3u0GVotyqrRz53CrHW-_sKf6UfROXJoDbY8XPD7gOQ5J2MSHA5oYclmZJvoWNRV55VbaG8qp1JJjszeek3UWgR5NBS9EistLQGPrHSglt-SKpJ139mNCoSnixwmkat1OcMkaBg/s300/11%20perc%20cap%20maker.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy0tvCoUeFJG7sl3r_6ZzxNpGXn8viElV28dOqJ2vYCoG0YJeW_09N3u0GVotyqrRz53CrHW-_sKf6UfROXJoDbY8XPD7gOQ5J2MSHA5oYclmZJvoWNRV55VbaG8qp1JJjszeek3UWgR5NBS9EistLQGPrHSglt-SKpJ139mNCoSnixwmkat1OcMkaBg/s1600/11%20perc%20cap%20maker.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p>The NZ shooting scene is deteriorating fast .. with some ammunition and components in short supply - while PRICES are rocketing skywards faster than any ICBM.. - <b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">CCI </span></i></b><i>"Caps</i>" that <i><u>were</u></i> around 10-12 cents each are now being offered at $40 a tin, <b><i>plus</i></b> courier charge (total $52 per 100) to your door, - <b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;">52cents </span></b>per cap.</p><p><b><u>That's</u></b> looking like more than two bucks a shot for some home-made bangers </p><p>.. BUT these <i>DIY</i> kits could drop that down to <b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">3-6 cents</span></b> per cap. - I'm treating this as an interesting <span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">fun project. </span>-<span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span>Some shooters might fancy reloading costly 22 Magnum cartridges.</p><p>Price is not the issue here ... <b><i>AVAILABILITY</i> </b>is even more important with increasing <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">restrictions</span></b> on <b><span style="color: #990000;">Export</span></b> - <b><span style="color: #990000;">Import</span></b> - <b><span style="color: #990000;">Transport</span></b> - <b><span style="color: #990000;">Permits</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #990000;">Licences</span></b> - <b><span style="color: #990000;">Storage</span></b> - <b><span style="color: #990000;">Insurance</span></b> .. and <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">prohibitive</span></b> new <b><span style="color: #990000;">RULES</span></b> for Clubs operating SHOOTING RANGES - and less and less land available to shoot over.</p><p>Decent folk are questioning whether it's all worth the bother - Gun Shops are closing.</p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">'THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE YOU AWAY HA-HAA'</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">1966</span></b></p><p><b style="background-color: #fcff01;">Link</b> to a good article on d.i.y primers that even tells how to make your own potassium chlorate:</p><p><a href="https://aardvarkreloading.com/resources/SHTF%20Homemade%20Primers%202020-03-23.pdf" style="background-color: #fcff01;">https://aardvarkreloading.com/resources/SHTF%20Homemade%20Primers%202020-03-23.pdf</a></p><p>- Another factor was my curiosity as to whether I could make this kit reliably <i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">work</span></i> - would my order even <u>arrive</u> down here in New Zealand .. On 4th December the package landed on my home doorstep. - It HAD been slit open, checked and resealed by the nosies at 'border protection' .. but it was all there.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS7pAOTKuS9NQlAdGLnac4KW3T8hlzxAVVsGtjuKVEtB2vib8lp2IT4ihNcVftjsx_usiP70_IKBPeoGcf3OV316G2EjG7oss6FQ8_bVJAmZMyoix_93xYjJrWddKDKX1Aemp2iEC33BF-b4fYggWAVtuswTlnvL8SzQ3sbtJliyJduAeoC9PPot5_pA/s4000/No.11%20Cap%20Kits.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2217" data-original-width="4000" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS7pAOTKuS9NQlAdGLnac4KW3T8hlzxAVVsGtjuKVEtB2vib8lp2IT4ihNcVftjsx_usiP70_IKBPeoGcf3OV316G2EjG7oss6FQ8_bVJAmZMyoix_93xYjJrWddKDKX1Aemp2iEC33BF-b4fYggWAVtuswTlnvL8SzQ3sbtJliyJduAeoC9PPot5_pA/w640-h354/No.11%20Cap%20Kits.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>- Everything considered - this is a good result. <span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">SHARPSHOOTER 22LR</span> supplied exactly the tool & chemicals as ordered. <b style="background-color: #fcff01;">*BRILLIANT*</b>.</p><p>The issue isn't that I don't have <i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"shop bought" </span></i>caps .. as I have plenty - but as a non-criminal citizen I INSIST on my RIGHTS to be able to harvest wild foods and to maintain independence of all the prohibitions imposed by <b><span style="font-size: large;">CORRUPT VENAL POLITICIANS</span></b>.</p><p>- We are<b><u><span style="font-size: medium;"> NOT</span></u></b> making here any component using <b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">shock sensitive explosive metalic fulminates</span></b> - as first patented by Rev. Forsyth in 1807 - neither is there <span style="color: red;"><b>mercury, phosphorus</b></span> .. nor <b style="color: red;">lead styphnate</b>.</p><p><u>This</u> <i>mixture </i>used for <i>priming </i>will do the ignition function in <b>primers, -</b> <b>percussion caps </b><u>&</u> in <b>Rimfire Cartridges. - </b>I'm thinking of it as much like a <b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: red;">gunpowder</span></b> formulation with added FRICTION AGENTS such as ground glass / sand - that when hit sharply, impact together and make enough <b>heat</b> to ignite the compound, that itself then ignites the main propellant charge. This mixture produces <span style="color: red;">corrosive residues</span> that require careful cleaning and oiling of your gun.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">IT WORKS - BUT IT IS <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">CORROSIVE</span></b> ..</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Nothing is ever simple .. Nothing is ever perfect ..</span></p><p>These chemicals are a variation of <b><span style="font-size: medium;">H-48 Priming Compound</span></b> - dating from 1898 that you might <i style="font-weight: bold;">Google </i>if curious.</p><p>The individual chemicals are not dangerous and can be bought everywhere by anyone who chooses to be even more independent .. It is only after mixing that the <i>preparation </i>becomes functional and may be ignited by friction from an impact/hammer blow. </p><p>HAVE FAITH: - I did a precise scientific TEST - after I had filled my caps .. I tipped a wee pile of the left-over dry mix onto the concrete step at my laundry door - and hit it with a wee hammer .. where it made a satisfyingly loud BANG. - WOOO HOOO.<i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Promising Eh</span></i>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie6EcWaQ9yEddQTXcOO869oPh-CkQvs6AvlUDUTil23D3NuLLqm2XDoH0-YA8cuG0KMqi2xVrlRvUT2u5uF8CZojRawtObbcCBe85kyho7s0hcZRnwGx_FfUHACU6Nucfu5QX70VZZ9s6kSm-67aZcGp8L4ZkaHCFKLv3zn0dDtF4OnckyhX-fOGWFXQ/s2844/ins2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2190" data-original-width="2844" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie6EcWaQ9yEddQTXcOO869oPh-CkQvs6AvlUDUTil23D3NuLLqm2XDoH0-YA8cuG0KMqi2xVrlRvUT2u5uF8CZojRawtObbcCBe85kyho7s0hcZRnwGx_FfUHACU6Nucfu5QX70VZZ9s6kSm-67aZcGp8L4ZkaHCFKLv3zn0dDtF4OnckyhX-fOGWFXQ/w640-h492/ins2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS - READ THE INSTRUCTIONS ..</b></div></b><p style="text-align: left;">Actually making some caps comes after I've had a cup of coffee eh. - This is going to be fiddly.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>__________________</b></p><p style="text-align: left;">Well I first had to buy a can of fizz and <i><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: x-small;">'dumbfuck'</span></i> that I am, - I drunk this <i>piss-pop</i> instead of pouring it down the sewer - or even smarter would have been to scavange a dead one from a garbo somewhere ..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpBoPCov6GtrtrqDEayvOLPojKn8ORs2mZ_quZehUm6j2A1eVNcQbXPiqNkcqRrVTCD-1x1kwyO9CZlTXAi8ZM8jrlDSqQK_qAfdkF2NnB6L662gS_5y-ZbhEg1EF8lc2kLLPrdM_ihC5iyfmbuFCKJMulPB-UN7Z9Jcgi7hvQlv8sd5Aqw2xr5WMSUw/s3498/cap%20gear.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2205" data-original-width="3498" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpBoPCov6GtrtrqDEayvOLPojKn8ORs2mZ_quZehUm6j2A1eVNcQbXPiqNkcqRrVTCD-1x1kwyO9CZlTXAi8ZM8jrlDSqQK_qAfdkF2NnB6L662gS_5y-ZbhEg1EF8lc2kLLPrdM_ihC5iyfmbuFCKJMulPB-UN7Z9Jcgi7hvQlv8sd5Aqw2xr5WMSUw/s320/cap%20gear.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>No issues cutting can apart and starting a trial run .. Careful of the SHARP EDGES.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYdHeKYJz2mlo4vmNO9O3qtkq43TEC3kCZ_EmRO1Ru-OlKu9WxnCfDWMKRLPhi__IGPJ7tk8sqZXLsWyHUrfDI0K7rvLPV0-BrNc_Uy6qfeMYHazroUjj4HX6qQ1C1AyZLBp9K8YMlc6xDshtHJsohA3upSYSJ9bCkt5B52pixeuKBV4L6xFWvBbReg/s4000/screwdriver%20capping.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYdHeKYJz2mlo4vmNO9O3qtkq43TEC3kCZ_EmRO1Ru-OlKu9WxnCfDWMKRLPhi__IGPJ7tk8sqZXLsWyHUrfDI0K7rvLPV0-BrNc_Uy6qfeMYHazroUjj4HX6qQ1C1AyZLBp9K8YMlc6xDshtHJsohA3upSYSJ9bCkt5B52pixeuKBV4L6xFWvBbReg/w640-h480/screwdriver%20capping.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Don't be cross .. but I used the plastic handled screwdriver as a whacker. - Starting from the right, those first five, I failed to send the punch all the way down so they are NOT fully formed. - The next <b><i>nine-in-a-line</i></b> are what the tool produces when used as intended. No criticism but they are, like a good woman - a little 'round bottomed and wobbly' - and I have seen one joker on the wwweb use a metal hand punch to reshape & stabilise these into a drilled cavity and to flatten the wobble. Maybe I will - maybe I won't .. it depends on if they keep tipping over and spilling their load eh.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3rl0Ckpzr081B2QP6HBS6qeIKzlUEFjs5oamN7p7VesubWnTqiIhjXmrkkrFFgDn3yrrXTBqq20jEpALgwRUre52L1RdZ1_dJomUuXp7Fq32a-qwIXhQqRG59IXs2IHV4UTq_gr4tQw2M70CQoDk0jJf0LX2AjpZjxpNISkf0WS-PROGLg25hBX0Ygw/s1881/caps%20%2311.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="1881" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3rl0Ckpzr081B2QP6HBS6qeIKzlUEFjs5oamN7p7VesubWnTqiIhjXmrkkrFFgDn3yrrXTBqq20jEpALgwRUre52L1RdZ1_dJomUuXp7Fq32a-qwIXhQqRG59IXs2IHV4UTq_gr4tQw2M70CQoDk0jJf0LX2AjpZjxpNISkf0WS-PROGLg25hBX0Ygw/w640-h196/caps%20%2311.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Those irregular crimps that form the sides likely are a <u style="font-weight: bold;">good</u> <u style="font-weight: bold;">thing</u> 'cos I'd be free to squeeze or stretch the soft aluminum to fit a range of cones eh.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjLD6TrWRlHyWuXF2YxMa49ws4nmqswA9pZXRHxWQyBrdwSz4_b3LDxVIs7YDANCf4oI-tTcdvMKwM4xywM94zmpveyMBPPVxRMmNo6m-P4Rb4OSQk7jGNsLIoL3Von2sHfRn7nzlXjWN0lw6HpEwvWSk9L7osD-yqNOtRFCGwoEwMR_cj-I-JomyPg/s4000/gearset%20up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="4000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjLD6TrWRlHyWuXF2YxMa49ws4nmqswA9pZXRHxWQyBrdwSz4_b3LDxVIs7YDANCf4oI-tTcdvMKwM4xywM94zmpveyMBPPVxRMmNo6m-P4Rb4OSQk7jGNsLIoL3Von2sHfRn7nzlXjWN0lw6HpEwvWSk9L7osD-yqNOtRFCGwoEwMR_cj-I-JomyPg/w640-h320/gearset%20up.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>So I did follow the instructions but this is experimental eh .. and fiddly/messy. - I used a pet food container to carefully mix the <i>angel dust</i> with a small paintbrush, crunching all lumps noticed.</div><div>I used a small primer tray to hold the caps while loading them with the <i>magic mixture - </i>but<i> </i>using the supplied scoop for this<i> wasn't </i>easy - so I then used a pointy blade-thing to scoop and drop..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="4000" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXXomrUaI4N9hyPy3e3nKKYZ-trg-TN1BJH6d-vHileEDhH-JZCz2Zdvaca4TXpBnx72zhdcsl1aJvXWnBSB8c__EO89kE4k95-ZVUMhyphenhyphenToFeGc1E1WtOA1Ag-9_gh_OmvjA3xO0dM0yFawgwzOnF760q8zqUXCIL5j94fcdYvQOBJPYrBUPqbAvZ6g/w640-h244/grubby%20business.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>The "noise level" of the homemade jobbies was a loud <span><b style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: red;"><i>"</i></b><b style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: red; font-style: italic;">crack"</b><span style="background-color: white;"> much the same as shop bought -</span></span></span></div><div><span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0IWZ3yVwcMKQ1RsOdJDIz2lfYFSg3wo4P7X9JWhGM83akyXyT5M5HUhCiM3uj8q4NqgrQJHXO4fjkGmTrgVYR-zRDrgUokjCIH-GEXo0VvDMIjBbsdxQCp6JM-rx29AQq0SGVO4u5n2Mzq4qr8oOGygl2jGA5Y5P1w22jhdfX5K4SSuu_28uAOeGqIw/s3195/fired%20dirty.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2135" data-original-width="3195" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0IWZ3yVwcMKQ1RsOdJDIz2lfYFSg3wo4P7X9JWhGM83akyXyT5M5HUhCiM3uj8q4NqgrQJHXO4fjkGmTrgVYR-zRDrgUokjCIH-GEXo0VvDMIjBbsdxQCp6JM-rx29AQq0SGVO4u5n2Mzq4qr8oOGygl2jGA5Y5P1w22jhdfX5K4SSuu_28uAOeGqIw/w640-h429/fired%20dirty.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>The <i>snapped </i>diy caps stayed whole as did the <b><i>CCI </i></b>test cap - there being no back-blast as from a fully loaded discharge.<br /></span></span></div><div><span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHaGOtLmHFZkRwECyaVx49wiS2D5BhHV8xMySO4ZrDUcX_3s4I0sEl8iOAcMoKssfMPXDEYr86paB_uPfTNxMrgiyhA8XMSgFn_MO__GLyLhd0rzL1wtHs6EuafBUnd23w0aAU2W8FqVBBSuPA_uwGJsocul9820TbhBSn3NfYIy14Xq9mCvpM7ViRg/s1906/red%20corrosive.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1906" data-original-width="1747" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHaGOtLmHFZkRwECyaVx49wiS2D5BhHV8xMySO4ZrDUcX_3s4I0sEl8iOAcMoKssfMPXDEYr86paB_uPfTNxMrgiyhA8XMSgFn_MO__GLyLhd0rzL1wtHs6EuafBUnd23w0aAU2W8FqVBBSuPA_uwGJsocul9820TbhBSn3NfYIy14Xq9mCvpM7ViRg/s320/red%20corrosive.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The valuable test unit, being covered in <b><span style="background-color: #ffa400; color: #cc0000;">corrosive</span></b> combustion <b><span style="background-color: #ffa400; color: #cc0000;">residue</span></b>, was promptly scrubbed THREE TIMES using detergent and boiling hot water, - before lubricating.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieuKah57HLghXWLm4TdDNPhq-n1ym8qptGUpgq2oB77_oeSq2KrRf2FmQatKaYEvpwmaOn8FV6Do5Rsfi_7XUVghHXI6yI4cBwUmfyQLwYpy0G03MQqg3jwkfUR6nR2_STKyuOxImbtRB9WtRXIHw6albrrCzqr3VG3i7pr5zL0T3KON310lopQEsHAw/s3919/First%20Cleaning.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2441" data-original-width="3919" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieuKah57HLghXWLm4TdDNPhq-n1ym8qptGUpgq2oB77_oeSq2KrRf2FmQatKaYEvpwmaOn8FV6Do5Rsfi_7XUVghHXI6yI4cBwUmfyQLwYpy0G03MQqg3jwkfUR6nR2_STKyuOxImbtRB9WtRXIHw6albrrCzqr3VG3i7pr5zL0T3KON310lopQEsHAw/s320/First%20Cleaning.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>First Cleaning..</b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Notes</span></i></b> so far on my experience: </span></span></div><div>For <span style="color: #2b00fe;">SAFETY</span> - I mixed only small amounts for immediate use.</div><div><b>IQ</b> above 40 recommended ..</div><div>- I needed to keep the thin aluminium sheet or strip cut from my can as flat as possible to slide properly into the tool - with no rolling or kinking at the edges ..</div><div>- I <i><u>did</u></i> use the flat end of the toothpick to try flatten the Cap's bases in the Primer tray - they are very thin metal and 'flimsy'.</div><div> - I understand there is some adhesive in <i>the magic mix</i> that is activated by adding a liquid, - I waited - and then pressed the mixture in to <i>firm</i> into the cap.</div><div>- When placing the test pieces onto the cones - I did observe a little loose compound dust dropping ..</div><div>- So there are possibilities for the independently minded .. Home made 'antique <b>propellant</b>', home-made Percussion <b>Caps</b>, Home-made <b>Projectiles</b> cast from soft lead, - Scratch Built Locks ..</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">- Please excuse me from writing further - as right now I want to check & CLEAN the old test equipment AGAIN. - </span><span>But I have rewarded myself with a second brew of coffee with a big spoon of condensed milk ... extravagently rash for a <b><i>septuagenarian /</i></b> <i>octogenarian? </i>but damn the risk eh ..</span></div><div><br /><div><b><i>Marty K.</i></b></div><div><p><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p></div></div>Marty Kavanaghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04481186067120301574noreply@blogger.com0