RED333 1,025 Posted November 9, 2014 Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 but from before our time, I mean WAY BEFORE. http://www.muzzleloadingshotguns.com/articles/candlecartridges Colonel Hawker did not provide a great deal of information regarding the Candle Cartridge in the Sixth Edition of Instructions To Young Sportsmen (published in 1830). However, he does provide instructions for making the Candle Cartridge: Candle Cartridges. Fill a socket, within the size of your cylinder, with melted tallow, and when it has cooled so far as to be about the consistence of thick cream, pour your shot 1 in, and shake it well together. When nearly cold, close all by a little pressure on the top; and, when quite hard, shut up your cartridge, and you are ready for action. Just go and see how this shoots. Though I condemn tallow confined in wire, I can see no objection to it when merely covered with light paper. am indebted to my friend Captain Ward for this discovery, and a schedule of its excellent performance Instructions To Young Sportsmen, In All That Relates To Guns And Shooting Sixth Edition (Riling 1830). 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Long Shot 1,287 Posted November 9, 2014 Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 Pioneers, yeah! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gaddis 1,689 Posted November 9, 2014 Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 WTF? Sounds like a liberal Democrat giving a speech. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JESS1344 508 Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 WTF? Sounds like a liberal Democrat giving a speech. GADDIS, UPPER CLASS BRITISH ENGLISH (AS OPPOSED TO AMERICAN ENGLISH) CIRCA EARLY-MID 1800's. JESS1344 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gunman1 1,753 Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 Gaddis, on 09 Nov 2014 - 6:37 PM, said:WTF? Sounds like a liberal Democrat giving a speech. WTF? Sounds like a liberal Democrat giving a speech. GADDIS, UPPER CLASS BRITISH ENGLISH (AS OPPOSED TO AMERICAN ENGLISH) CIRCA EARLY-MID 1800's. JESS1344 Is there any real difference between the two....jusyn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JESS1344 508 Posted November 10, 2014 Report Share Posted November 10, 2014 (edited) AA, AT THAT POINT IN TIME, NOT A GREAT DEAL OF DIFFERENCE, AS IT HADN'T BEEN THAT LONG SINCE WE HAD BEEN BRITISH. TODAY, READING UPPER CLASS ENGLISH OF THE PERIOD, IT DOES SOUND (READ) A BIT STILTED; I THINK THAT'S WHAT GADDIS MEANT. SINCE THAT TIME, AMERICAN ENGLISH HAS BECOME DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT FROM BRITISH ENGLISH, EXTENDING EVEN TO THE SPELLING OF SOME WORDS (CENTER, CENTRE). BRITISH SOCIETY WAS, AND REMAINS EVEN TODAY, TO A GREAT DEGREE, HIGHLY STRATIFIED; UPPER CLASS, MIDDLE, AND "OTHER RANKS". THERE ARE SO MANY REGIONAL ACCENTS, RANGING FROM UPPER CLASS, TO, FOR INSTANCE, COCKNEY, THAT THE TWO EXTREMES ARE HARD TO DECYPHER, UNTIL YOU GET YOUR EAR ATTUNED TO THEM; THE UPPER CLASS SOUNDING A BIT STILTED, AS WITH THE COLONEL ABOVE, AND THE COCKNEY BEING, WELL, THE INCOMPARABLE COCKNEY. I'VE ALWAYS LOVED TO LISTEN TO THE VARIOUS BRITISH ACCENTS, TO INCLUDE THE IRISH AND SCOTS, TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHAT PART OF THE ISLES THEY CAME FROM. JESS1344 Edited November 11, 2014 by JESS1344 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gaddis 1,689 Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 (edited) I still can't figure out (reading it a third time already) whether he's talking about preparing to choke his chicken or loading some type of shot charge? Okay, forget it. I actually checked out the linked web page. Kind of makes sense now. Edited November 11, 2014 by Gaddis Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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