I quite liked Northern Exposure, at least I did when my sons were
young and we could watch the goodies win. But the hero seemed
impossibly resistant to pretty girls ...
And you have the better of me on the quality of rifles or muskets
that far back. I used to read Guns and Ammo when in my adolescence
(living in Teheran, so US magazines were plentiful), but then I found
that I was allowed to practise with 30mm, 27mm and 20mm guns firing
at between 1,000 and 4,000 rounds per minute ...
... and all this started with Thom thingummy and his pontificating on
file sizes for printing, and an exasperated grunt from Andrew of the
(adopted) Antipodes :-)
Chris
On 24 Oct 2007, at 13:07, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Ah! Like in the old TV show Northern Exposure, when Chris built a
> catapult and hurled a piano. One of my favorite episodes. (It was
> Chris, wasn't it? <g>)
>
> Should have known why "tirez" was pounding on the inside of my skull.
> I've read enough of Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe novels that I
> should have recognized it right away. The French attack in column.
> Wellington defended in line. Thin red line beat thick blue column
> every time because the British army was one of the few, if not only,
> in Europe to train with live ammunition. The average Redcoat could
> load and fire three rounds a minute from his musket. Green jacketed
> riflemen fired at a slightly slower pace, but much more accurately,
> because they had to use a patch around the bullet for better fit.
> After a number of rounds, they stopped using the patch because the
> barrel was so fouled with powder residue they couldn't ram a wrapped
> bullet home. Then the Baker rifle became less accurate, but by then
> the French column was upon them, anyway.
>
> I could go on, but I won't. <g>
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