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Re: Nice surprises with cased gun purchases JBLondon #589694 01/10/21 02:13 PM
Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 903 Likes: 358 Parabola Sidelock
Parabola Sidelock Joined: Dec 2020 Posts: 903 Likes: 358	Apart from the obvious, could it have been used to remove lead from barrels? I have heard of liquid mercury being used to remove leading from bores.

Re: Nice surprises with cased gun purchases Parabola #589722 01/10/21 06:14 PM
Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 92 Likes: 2 Northwest Territories Arctic Sidelock
Arctic Sidelock Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 92 Likes: 2 Northwest Territories	Yep, blue Ointment was commonly used for lead removal due to the mercury content, so one would wipe the bore with it and let stand overnight, .... a patch the next day cleaned out the lead. Was very common with bullseye handgunners. "A Stranger is a Friend we haven't Met"
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Re: Nice surprises with cased gun purchases JBLondon #589725 01/10/21 06:39 PM
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peevedoff Sidelock Joined: Aug 2018 Posts: 87 Likes: 2 Finland	Maybe the blue ointment connection was that both syphlis and breech-loading were a "French Disease" :"...let me caution the whole world against using fire-arms that are opened and loaded at the breech-end — a horrid ancient invention, revived by foreign makers, that is dangerous in the extreme, and by which I have just heard (April 29th, 1844) of a man being killed by the very gun that I condemned when in Paris in 1841." (Lieutenant Colonel Peter Hawker "Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All That Relates to Guns and Shooting ", Ninth edition, 1844.) Markus
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Re: Nice surprises with cased gun purchases Arctic #589726 01/10/21 06:42 PM
Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 426 Likes: 76 Ontario, Canada Steve Nash Sidelock
Steve Nash Sidelock Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 426 Likes: 76 Ontario, Canada	Originally Posted by Arctic Yep, blue Ointment was commonly used for lead removal due to the mercury content, so one would wipe the bore with it and let stand overnight, .... a patch the next day cleaned out the lead. Was very common with bullseye handgunners. How interesting. Thanks for that tidbit.

Re: Nice surprises with cased gun purchases AaronN #589727 01/10/21 06:44 PM
Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 426 Likes: 76 Ontario, Canada Steve Nash Sidelock
Steve Nash Sidelock Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 426 Likes: 76 Ontario, Canada	Originally Posted by AaronN I would love to see picture of the rest of the case and stuff in it. This is the case, AAronN. I'll take better pictures of the contents.

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