MAO-MAO WAR

DUH!

MAKE THAT MAO-MAO WAR!

DAWGIE

FWIW, I've usually seen it as Mau-Mau, though I understood you from the
first post. It was only after the second that my mind wandered to battling
howly native wannabees in the Moo-Moo war. I was fortunate enough not to
go down the obvious Battle Cattle route...

I think I saw a movie about the Mau-Mau's as a very young man that seems
to have left me still pretty shaken...

The_Beast

> At 10:49 AM -0600 11/25/03, Doug Evans wrote:

Don't forget Rourke's Drift, Iswandallah, and the Fuzzy Wuzzys of Soudan.

"it was a miracle." "Boxer Henry 45 caliber miracle....Saah!"

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Don't forget Rourke's Drift, Iswandallah, and the Fuzzy Wuzzys of Soudan.

"it was a miracle." "Boxer Henry 45 caliber miracle....Saah!"
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I saw Zulu and Khartoum when I was fairly young, Zulu Dawn a good deal later.
Schindler's List was much later, but each had their own effect, and are part
of a long list of movies that are important to me.

Sorry, getting WAY OT.

The_Beast

> At 11:10 AM -0600 11/25/03, Doug Evans wrote:

I've seen so much real footage of WWII Nazi camps that I'm not terribly
interested in watching a movie about it. I'd rather watch a movie about Bomber
Command blowing the crap out of a Gestapo Building in some town.

In a message dated 11/25/03 10:57:38 AM Central Standard Time,
> rmgill@mindspring.com writes:

> "it was a miracle."

I think the line runs: "If it was a miracle, it was a.45 caliber, boxer

cartridge miracle, Sir."

Boxer cartridges were a way of making the brass cartridge where the base

plate was woldered on to the length of the cartridge. This is an inferior way
of making a cartridge in the long run, as the extractors on weapons will
sometimes tear the base plate off the brass cartridge, leaving a jam very
difficult to clear.

> At 3:52 PM -0500 11/25/03, Popeyesays@aol.com wrote:

Boxer refers to the primer design does it not? Berdan primed (single hole and
different anvil design) vs Boxer Primed (dual hole and the anvil as part of
the cartridge and not integral to the primer).

A quick Google search yielded
thisŠhttp://www.martinihenry.com/450577.htm

So the early Boxer-Henry .45 brass was coiled and
rolled, not drawn. That's the reason for it's tearing. Interesting.

I have this vision of two Chinese clones of a warlord going at it... LOL!

Actually Dawgie, I got it but I did have this 'vision' for a minute... anfd it
brightened my day.

Gracias,