Jacques Cousteau Odyssey posted! CAFB OPEN HOUSE TOMORROW!
 

Someone has posted a whole storm of Jacques Cousteau Odyssey episodes in
nicely-compressed DivX format over on alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries
newsgroup.

These are the Cousteau Society's trips from back in the late 70's.

I haven't viewed them as I just found them. Most of today has been spent
getting my retired Air Force stepvan loaded and ready to go to the
Charleston Air Force Base Open House 2008 early tomorrow morning. The
Thunderbirds are flying their show, but the BIG show we got a glimpse of
today during practice is the new F-22 Raptor which did some really amazing
aerobatics all afternoon to the delight of everyone goofing off on a Friday
afternoon in the warm Charleston sun.

To cap off the practice, today, the crowds assembled got to watch the World
War II P-51 Mustang, completely restored fly in very tight formation with
the F-22 Raptor, which simply DWARFED the P-51 like a 747 in formation with
a Piper Cub! The Raptor is HUGE!.....AND LOUD! Seeing them fly with the
nose of the Raptor sitting almost touching the P-51's left elevator was a
fantastic sight for all. During that time, the P-51's big enginen was
making all the noise at full throttle trying to make enough speed so the
Raptor wouldn't go into a stall....(c;

It's gonna be a fantastic weekend at CAFB. The flightline is full of
static displays and seems to have lots more corporate support than last
year:
http://www.charleston.af.mil/
http://www.charlestonairexpo.com/

Our own C-17 aluminum clouds will also be demonstrating our airlift
capability....albeit a little slower than the Raptor...(c;
Ft Bragg will be invading (and probably setting fire to the runways again
like last year). Some Airborne landed in the crowd and we got to see them
CLOSE UP!

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In article ,
Larry wrote:


It's gonna be a fantastic weekend at CAFB. The flightline is full of
static displays and seems to have lots more corporate support than last
year:
http://www.charleston.af.mil/
http://www.charlestonairexpo.com/

B-b-b-butt it's Jazzfest weekend!

LOL

--
Molesworth

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Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
:

In article ,
Larry wrote:


It's gonna be a fantastic weekend at CAFB. The flightline is full of
static displays and seems to have lots more corporate support than last
year:
http://www.charleston.af.mil/
http://www.charlestonairexpo.com/

B-b-b-butt it's Jazzfest weekend!

LOL


Took the old AF stepvan to the gate this morning and was told I'd have to
go through a full search at the gate on the other side of the AFB to get it
aboard. The gate was HEAVILY armed with multiple dogs, flak jackets and
very heavy weaponry I've not seen at previous air shows in previous years,
even after the false flag op of 9/11/2001, when I simply drove the van in
the traffic with the huge SUVs.

Something is cookin' at the Base. They're loaded for war like I saw this
morning with very serious AP's looking for trouble.

So, about 11AM when the airshow starts, I'm going to go over to the
civilian airport and watch it from there. The base looks like they're
expecting a bomb to go off right in the middle of the crowded static
displays. No thanks.....

I don't understand why anyone's mad at us just because we invaded a few of
Israel's enemies and killed thousands of their people trying to impose
Israel's will on them with military force and steal their oil and other
natural resources for the big corporations.....

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On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:48:37 +0000, Larry wrote:

....
I don't understand why anyone's mad at us just because we invaded a few of
Israel's enemies and killed thousands of their people trying to impose
Israel's will on them with military force and steal their oil and other
natural resources for the big corporations.....



Talk about throw-away humor! :-)

Brian W

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On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:48:37 +0000, Larry wrote:

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
:

In article ,
Larry wrote:


It's gonna be a fantastic weekend at CAFB. The flightline is full of
static displays and seems to have lots more corporate support than last
year:
http://www.charleston.af.mil/
http://www.charlestonairexpo.com/

B-b-b-butt it's Jazzfest weekend!

LOL


Took the old AF stepvan to the gate this morning and was told I'd have to
go through a full search at the gate on the other side of the AFB to get it
aboard. The gate was HEAVILY armed with multiple dogs, flak jackets and
very heavy weaponry I've not seen at previous air shows in previous years,
even after the false flag op of 9/11/2001, when I simply drove the van in
the traffic with the huge SUVs.

Something is cookin' at the Base. They're loaded for war like I saw this
morning with very serious AP's looking for trouble.

So, about 11AM when the airshow starts, I'm going to go over to the
civilian airport and watch it from there. The base looks like they're
expecting a bomb to go off right in the middle of the crowded static
displays. No thanks.....

I don't understand why anyone's mad at us just because we invaded a few of
Israel's enemies and killed thousands of their people trying to impose
Israel's will on them with military force and steal their oil and other
natural resources for the big corporations.....


Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

But maybe Hillery will save the day? Or 'bama or Big Mac? Sort of the
insolvable problem -- who to vote for?






Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

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In article ,
Bruce in Bangkok wrote:


Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

But maybe Hillery will save the day? Or 'bama or Big Mac? Sort of the
insolvable problem -- who to vote for?

Ron Paul of course!

--
Molesworth

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Brian Whatcott wrote in
:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:48:37 +0000, Larry wrote:

...
I don't understand why anyone's mad at us just because we invaded a
few of Israel's enemies and killed thousands of their people trying to
impose Israel's will on them with military force and steal their oil
and other natural resources for the big corporations.....



Talk about throw-away humor! :-)

Brian W



There's nothing funny about mass murder. I'm sorry you're so blind you
cannot see the reality of it.

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Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

But maybe Hillery will save the day? Or 'bama or Big Mac? Sort of the
insolvable problem -- who to vote for?




Someone sent me a copy of a "Message from Denmark" in my email.....

The Dane said something like:

Why are you Americans having an election??

One candidate is a lawyer who is a bitch who is married to a lawyer who is
a philanderer. The other candidate is a war hero who is married to a woman
with big boobs who is a BEER DISTRIBUTOR.

Why do you need an election to decide??

............................

I found the comment quite funny....(c;

I didn't know McCain's wife owned a beer distributorship!

Doesn't matter who, actually. We're discussing the EMPLOYEES who do what
they're told by the hidden OVERLORDS back at the Council on Foreign
Relations, Supreme Lodge of the Freemasons, Bohemian Society, Skull and
Bones cult and the Federal Reserve Bankers who make the actual decisions on
who lives and who dies.....

We're not allowed to vote for Overlords, only employees in a rigged
election.

Have you seen the Onion News parody?....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBrDzZCOQtI
....there's a lot of truth to Onion News, once you stop crying....

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Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
:

Ron Paul of course!

--
Molesworth



Unfortunately, though a member of the Doctor's Union, the AMA, Paul is not
a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is not a Freemason. This
makes him ineligible to become President in our sham election. The last
President who wasn't a Freemason, JFK, was killed symbolically at Deeley
Plaza, where the first Texas Freemason lodge was founded. If you look
EXACTLY East of the spot where Kennedy was shot by the most amazing guided
bullet ever imagined, you'll find the Freemason's "Phallus of Osirus"
across the lawn in a commemorative monument to Freemasonry in Texas.

The Freemasons' monuments have all been eliminated, mysteriously, to be
replaced by a reflecting pool with only a tiny phallus at the other end
from the first when too many bloggers pointed all this out about the
Kennedy murder....obscuring the message sent to any subsequent presidential
candidates in the future.....

All Presidents are reminded right out their bedroom windows of who is in
power as they can see the big Phallus of Osirus from their beds, the so-
called "Washington Monument" out the back of the White House, a symbolic 13
blocks south of the Supreme Council of the USA headquarters up Pennsylvania
Ave.....another coincidence.

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Molesworth wrote:
In article ,
Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

But maybe Hillery will save the day? Or 'bama or Big Mac? Sort of the
insolvable problem -- who to vote for?

Ron Paul of course!


Ron Paul has some unworkable ideas and is in general, a bit
different. However, he is also quite intelligent and goes his own ways
which excludes lobbiests and other bottom dwelling creatures.
I'm a conservative at heart but I can't vote for any of the 3
candidates now on the slate.
I do want it known that I vote, so probably will write in Paul.
Just my hugely inflated 2 cents worth.

Btw, anybody notice how the us dollar is now tracking the canadian
dollar? I expect an announcement before the end of Bush's term that we
are going to create a common currency with Canada and Mexico with the
Mexican being pegged at 10 to 1. This will be Bush's legacy and will
have been accomplished by deliberately devaluing the dollar causing
severe strife in the whole world.
Gordon

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:50:53 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

Muskets use balls, not bullets which are elongated and need spin to
make them fly right, and have to be shot from rifles. The balls are
..75 inch, bigger than 12 ga and hit like a 12 ga deer slug. Deadly is
the word for them. And yes, Bush should be hanged.

Casady

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:22:04 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:50:53 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

Muskets use balls, not bullets which are elongated and need spin to
make them fly right, and have to be shot from rifles. The balls are
.75 inch, bigger than 12 ga and hit like a 12 ga deer slug. Deadly is
the word for them. And yes, Bush should be hanged.

Casady

Yes, well you are technically correct however I thought that writing
"cleaning their muskets and casting their balls" might be a bit
confusing. "Casting their BALLS....."

Being a nit picker I should point out that muskets varied in caliber.
..75, .72, .69 and .58 were all common bores at various times.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:25:22 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:22:04 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:50:53 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

Muskets use balls, not bullets which are elongated and need spin to
make them fly right, and have to be shot from rifles. The balls are
.75 inch, bigger than 12 ga and hit like a 12 ga deer slug. Deadly is
the word for them. And yes, Bush should be hanged.

Casady

Yes, well you are technically correct however I thought that writing
"cleaning their muskets and casting their balls" might be a bit
confusing. "Casting their BALLS....."

Being a nit picker I should point out that muskets varied in caliber.
.75, .72, .69 and .58 were all common bores at various times.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)


Hmmm...this must be a nit-pickers' benefit!
Bullets can be round or cylindrical (OED definition)

Brian W

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:25:22 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Being a nit picker I should point out that muskets varied in caliber.
.75, .72, .69 and .58 were all common bores at various times.

The Brits made millions of the .75's and both sides in the war between
the states had rifled muskets, so called, in 58. .72 is 12 gauge,
which may not be a coincidence. The smoothbore muskets, unlike rifles,
could use birdshot, of concern to a farmer, if not a soldier. Shorten
the barrel so you can swing it, not just point it, and you have a
shotgun.

Casady

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Gordon wrote in news:hKednZHFCP-
:

I expect an announcement before the end of Bush's term that we
are going to create a common currency with Canada and Mexico with the
Mexican being pegged at 10 to 1.

It's the Amero, and I suspect the Amero to be ELECTRONIC in nature to
prevent hiding any wealth from the New World Order by anyone not of the
Overlord elite....

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15017
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amero
http://www.amerocurrency.com/
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=57980
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials...rby062806.html
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/id...he_amero_consp
iracy/

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On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:35:01 -0700, Gordon wrote:

Btw, anybody notice how the us dollar is now tracking the canadian
dollar? I expect an announcement before the end of Bush's term that we
are going to create a common currency with Canada and Mexico with the
Mexican being pegged at 10 to 1.

ain't gonna happen...this has been debated in our Parliament already and
we've decided not to create a common currency with the US or
Mexico...there was an analogy advanced of trying to swim with a 50lb
Bruce chained to one's neck... however we are looking at much more
attractive options such as the yuan or the rupee...apparently our
tarsands oil reserves are larger than the entire known reserves in the
world...and the Chinese and the Indians are interested buyers...

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:02:21 -0500, Brian Whatcott
wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:25:22 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:22:04 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:50:53 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

Muskets use balls, not bullets which are elongated and need spin to
make them fly right, and have to be shot from rifles. The balls are
.75 inch, bigger than 12 ga and hit like a 12 ga deer slug. Deadly is
the word for them. And yes, Bush should be hanged.

Casady

Yes, well you are technically correct however I thought that writing
"cleaning their muskets and casting their balls" might be a bit
confusing. "Casting their BALLS....."

Being a nit picker I should point out that muskets varied in caliber.
.75, .72, .69 and .58 were all common bores at various times.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)


Hmmm...this must be a nit-pickers' benefit!
Bullets can be round or cylindrical (OED definition)

Brian W

I suppose if you want to be dictionarily correct a bullet is "A
projectile that is fired from a gun". However, in the trade the word
"bullet" is normally used to describe a cylindrical projectile while a
round ball is call just that.

Sort of like a mouse being one thing to a computer geek and another
thing to my maiden aunt.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:31:17 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:25:22 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Being a nit picker I should point out that muskets varied in caliber.
.75, .72, .69 and .58 were all common bores at various times.

The Brits made millions of the .75's and both sides in the war between
the states had rifled muskets, so called, in 58. .72 is 12 gauge,
which may not be a coincidence. The smoothbore muskets, unlike rifles,
could use birdshot, of concern to a farmer, if not a soldier. Shorten
the barrel so you can swing it, not just point it, and you have a
shotgun.

Casady

Again you are correct. the standard British musket was .75 cal flint
lock from about 1722 until 1838 when they were replaced with a
percussion lock weapon of the same caliber.

The so called "rifled muskets" were a totally different weapon and was
actually a large bore, .58 cal as you say, rifled weapon firing a
conical hollow base bullet that was small enough to be loaded easily
in a fouled weapon but expanded to fit the bore when fired.

Although not very accurate by modern standards the rifled musket was
astonishingly accurate when compared to a smooth bore musket with its
undersize ball. One of the reasons for the extremely high loss of life
during the War between the States was the early use of "musket"
tactics against weapons that were accurate at a distance.



Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

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Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:02:21 -0500, Brian Whatcott
wrote:


On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:25:22 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:


On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:22:04 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:


On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:50:53 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:


Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

Muskets use balls, not bullets which are elongated and need spin to
make them fly right, and have to be shot from rifles. The balls are
.75 inch, bigger than 12 ga and hit like a 12 ga deer slug. Deadly is
the word for them. And yes, Bush should be hanged.

Casady

Yes, well you are technically correct however I thought that writing
"cleaning their muskets and casting their balls" might be a bit
confusing. "Casting their BALLS....."

Being a nit picker I should point out that muskets varied in caliber.
.75, .72, .69 and .58 were all common bores at various times.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)


Hmmm...this must be a nit-pickers' benefit!
Bullets can be round or cylindrical (OED definition)

Brian W


I suppose if you want to be dictionarily correct a bullet is "A
projectile that is fired from a gun". However, in the trade the word
"bullet" is normally used to describe a cylindrical projectile while a
round ball is call just that.

Sort of like a mouse being one thing to a computer geek and another
thing to my maiden aunt.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)


And "ball" amunition fired from a "rifle" is ???

--
(remove the X to email)

Now just why the HELL do I have to press 1 for English?
John Wayne

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:48:29 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

/snip/
Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

Hmmm...this must be a nit-pickers' benefit!
Bullets can be round or cylindrical (OED definition)

Brian W
***
I suppose if you want to be dictionarily correct a bullet is "A
projectile that is fired from a gun" /snip/
Bruce-in-Bangkok

Hehe...I thought it was *you* who wanted to be
lexicographically OK when you said
clean muskets, cast bullets....

....or was that someone else? :-)

Brian W

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:14:18 -0500, cavelamb himself
wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote:

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:02:21 -0500, Brian Whatcott
wrote:


On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:25:22 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:


On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:22:04 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:


On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:50:53 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:


Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

Muskets use balls, not bullets which are elongated and need spin to
make them fly right, and have to be shot from rifles. The balls are
.75 inch, bigger than 12 ga and hit like a 12 ga deer slug. Deadly is
the word for them. And yes, Bush should be hanged.

Casady

Yes, well you are technically correct however I thought that writing
"cleaning their muskets and casting their balls" might be a bit
confusing. "Casting their BALLS....."

Being a nit picker I should point out that muskets varied in caliber.
.75, .72, .69 and .58 were all common bores at various times.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)


Hmmm...this must be a nit-pickers' benefit!
Bullets can be round or cylindrical (OED definition)

Brian W


I suppose if you want to be dictionarily correct a bullet is "A
projectile that is fired from a gun". However, in the trade the word
"bullet" is normally used to describe a cylindrical projectile while a
round ball is call just that.

Sort of like a mouse being one thing to a computer geek and another
thing to my maiden aunt.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)


And "ball" amunition fired from a "rifle" is ???

Simply an arbitrary name assigned to a specific type of ammunition.
i.e., a "solid" bullet (please note the inverted commas, I do know
that a "solid" bullet in this case is made from two components).

No different then calling that gizmo attached to your computer a
"mouse".


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:20:47 GMT, Brian Whatcott
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:48:29 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

/snip/
Never mind the rag heads, I'm surprised that the 'mericans who's
buying power for foreign (Chinese) goods has decreased by about 30%
aren't cleaning the muskets and casting bullets.

Hmmm...this must be a nit-pickers' benefit!
Bullets can be round or cylindrical (OED definition)

Brian W
***
I suppose if you want to be dictionarily correct a bullet is "A
projectile that is fired from a gun" /snip/
Bruce-in-Bangkok

Hehe...I thought it was *you* who wanted to be
lexicographically OK when you said
clean muskets, cast bullets....

...or was that someone else? :-)

Brian W

Nope, I said that I thought it would sound funny to say "cleaning the
muskets and casting balls". Casting BALLS? Who's balls? Casting where?
Does it hurt?

Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:02:48 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Nope, I said that I thought it would sound funny to say "cleaning the
muskets and casting balls". Casting BALLS? Who's balls? Casting where?
Does it hurt?

I attributed the use of bullet, to the fact that ball doesn't parse
right.

I Just thought it wouldn't hurt to offer a few facts, Lots of history
been made with muskets. The Mexicans at the Alamo had muskets.
The US Civil war was the first major use of rifles, I believe. Until
the invention of the Minie ball [so called, it was really a bullet]
rifles were too slow loading to be popular with the military.

Casady

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:47:55 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:02:48 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Nope, I said that I thought it would sound funny to say "cleaning the
muskets and casting balls". Casting BALLS? Who's balls? Casting where?
Does it hurt?

I attributed the use of bullet, to the fact that ball doesn't parse
right.

I Just thought it wouldn't hurt to offer a few facts, Lots of history
been made with muskets. The Mexicans at the Alamo had muskets.
The US Civil war was the first major use of rifles, I believe. Until
the invention of the Minie ball [so called, it was really a bullet]
rifles were too slow loading to be popular with the military.

Casady

Go on all day if you like. I was a gunsmith for a while and used to
shoot muzzle loaders when I was a kid.

By the way, supposedly a "Brown Bess", I assume still a flintlock, was
used at the battle of Shiloh, in 1862. This is a weapon went into
service in about 1722. Now that is longevity.

According to what I've read the extremely heavy losses in the War
Between the States, at least in the early battles was due to using
"musket" tactics against troops armed with the new rifled muskets.

Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)