This a may be of help to you......
http://www.thesealedknot.org.uk/
Best Regards,
English.
Any English Civil War reenactors here? If I were in the UK, I'd want to be one. An artilleryman, naturally! Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be merely a vulgar brawl.
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
This a may be of help to you......
http://www.thesealedknot.org.uk/
Best Regards,
English.
If it has a trigger, I'm gonna enjoy it!
Re-enactors are applying for FAC's in order to obtain primers
http://www.dorset.police.uk/pdf/ACPO_Felwg21_06_07.pdf
section 14
“If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?” :- Prince Philip said after Dunblane
This is me with a bit of dead sheep on a stick
http://www.robinhewitt.net/oldsarum.jpg
Robin, I recognize what you're doing - we call it "sponging" on my 1815 crew - but do you use both wet and dry sponge?
On our crew we use a sponge-rammer: when the sponge (sheepskin side) is down the bore, the ram end (solid wood) would be outside the bore. It seems odd to me - backwards - to see someone laboring to push the implement DOWN the bore, while the sheepskin is visible.
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
Hi Jim
That's a double ended wool mop with a bucket of water down the bore and a thumb over the touch. Easier to push down than pull out
Robin
My family were in the Sealed Knot when I was a lad. At one time I was a powder monkey on the cannon crew
This was before they got all anal about authenticity of uniforms etc. Yes, we were "crimplene cavaliers"!
“We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.” - Marcus Aurelius
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone