The firearm thread

[Mr Merde]

... (and Speedygirl... she had to pick it up).

...

Bit by bit or with a shovel and broom?

[Indiana_Jones]

Bit by bit or with a shovel and broom?

With her teeth!

-Indy

[ManDownUnder]

Bit by bit or with a shovel and broom?

By the back legs... it was a gut shot while it was lying sideways on the ground kicking... one 12gauge hole in one side - entails out the other.

The carcass was... mostly ... intact. Liz was very gracious about it too I hasten to add.

[Mr Merde]

By the back legs... it was a gut shot while it was lying sideways on the ground kicking... one 12gauge hole in one side - entails out the other.

The carcass was... mostly ... intact. Liz was very gracious about it too I hasten to add.

So all she had to do then was skin it, quarter it and cook it .

"Me big hunter, me kill wabbit. You woman, you cook"

[The Pastor]

mm I could go for a rabbit right about now

[SpeedyGirl]

... or a 12 gauge from about 2 meters... not so nice... (and Speedygirl... she had to pick it up).

I think she's forgiven me... it's only been 26 months...

"Hey - it's still alive"
*BOOM* "Really?"
"You C*nt!"

I think she likes me...

Mmmmmm..... was that after I trailed the entrails all the way along the truck???? LOL

Bit by bit or with a shovel and broom?

what those fancy things???

With her teeth!

-Indy

By the back legs... it was a gut shot while it was lying sideways on the ground kicking... one 12gauge hole in one side - entails out the other.

The carcass was... mostly ... intact. Liz was very gracious about it too I hasten to add.

'bout the only time i am

So all she had to do then was skin it, quarter it and cook it .

"Me big hunter, me kill wabbit. You woman, you cook"

TUI!!!!

[jono035]

Chris: Whereabouts do you fire the black powder rifles? Private place or as part of a club shoot? Would be interested in checking it out sometime if it's a club shoot and near Auckland...

[sAsLEX]

I like my Ruger 10/22. Ya gotta buy the stainless synthetic though

I am looking at the target with laminated "thumbhole" stock...... if its an A cat which the store is clarifying :P

[Indiana_Jones]

Still keen to pop down the Chris's on Sat MDU?

-Indy

[carver]

Just wait till you line up on a bunny with a .58 calibre round ball or a .75 as Wolf will be doing in the future. Or a .56 rimfire as I will be doing this weekend. Bet you didnt even know there was a .56 rimfire (even though it is actually a .52 calibre bullet)

A .22 will never feel the same again.

odd sizes there.....
I did not know about the .56 rimfire, when does it date from??

[jono035]

odd sizes there.....
I did not know about the .56 rimfire, when does it date from??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56-56_Spencer

Says patented in 1860 with commercial ammo available until the 1920s...

[Wolf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56-56_Spencer

Says patented in 1860 with commercial ammo available until the 1920s...

Fah! Goddamn newfangled thing in a diminutive calibre.

The .75 to which Chris referred is a flintlock musket - designed in the 1700s...

[Wolf]

odd sizes there.....
I did not know about the .56 rimfire, when does it date from??

No, they will not let you fire it at the local rimfire club range...

[Mr Merde]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56-56_Spencer

Says patented in 1860 with commercial ammo available until the 1920s...

Im impressed.

yes it was the original round for the Spencer repeating rifle. Later went to 56-52 then 56-50 and 56-44

There have been hundreds of rimfire rounds. All but the humble .22 have gone. Saying that the .22 is the oldest, dates from 1850, and is basically unchanged since apart from the powder it uses.

The popular handgun known as a Deringer UO was in .41 rimfire.
Colt made a couple. The Henry and the 1866 Winchester were rimfire rounds.

There is reallly nothing new in firearms and their munitions. I was reading a magazine a few months back and it was explaining that all the "new" calibres were nothing more than rebirths of older wilcats or less popular ones , given new names.

Our basic revolver deisign goes back2 hundred years. colt really only invented the method of turning the cylinder. As for semi auto pistols where would we be without the Man himself John Moses Browning.

The French were using bolt action rifles in the 1860's, machine guns go back to the mid 1880's, submachineguns back to the early 1900's

Lever rifles back to 1850's with the Volcanic pistol which became Winchester.

Single shot breech loading back to the late 1790's (the Fergusson Fifle)

Our priming system to the 1880's (Boxer from the UK and Berdan from the US, we predominately use the Boxer system now)

Black powder to the Chinese 2500 years ago and modern powder to the 1860's

What have we added? modern machining and materials. not a lot else.

To know the history of something gives makes you wonder at how little we have reallky progressed and developed.

Chris

[Mr Merde]

Chris: Whereabouts do you fire the black powder rifles? Private place or as part of a club shoot? Would be interested in checking it out sometime if it's a club shoot and near Auckland...

Sent you a pm