Ivan the Butcher
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The thread in the other firearm & knife sub-forum got me remembering .
Around 1970 my family was at a estate auction of an unknown "Great White Hunter". The items auctioned of included the "Kit", but not the guns or ammo. We bought a few useful things. One was a 36" bladed machete that was sharpened on both edges, like a broadsword but had no bolster.
Also in the stash were 3 five-gallon "coffee boilers". I always thought they were for boiling water. When I became a family man that camped, I was after 2 such boilers. The largest I ever found were two-gallon. With the six of us, two gallons just were too small. You used them both at the same time. One was on the fire and boiling and the other one cooling. When the kids needed a major washing, Dinner dishes, cooking and drinking water, the production of boiled water was a must!
Anyone ever seen Huge "Coffee Boilers"? The old ones were cream colored enamel. My two from the 80's were the blue and white speckled enamel.
One other item was a small funnel (about 1 3/4" diameter) out of brass with nickel/chrome plating and offset to be straight on one side. It turned out to be part of the Elephant Rifle cleaning kit. After your day of hunting, you sat down for a cup of tea. You used the funnel to pour boiling water down your rifle's barrel (or two) to dissolve the priming compounds (Mercuric or Chloric salts) to keep from rusting or pitting the bores. The Nitro solvents didn't work on the priming compounds! Anyone got one of these?
Ivan
Around 1970 my family was at a estate auction of an unknown "Great White Hunter". The items auctioned of included the "Kit", but not the guns or ammo. We bought a few useful things. One was a 36" bladed machete that was sharpened on both edges, like a broadsword but had no bolster.
Also in the stash were 3 five-gallon "coffee boilers". I always thought they were for boiling water. When I became a family man that camped, I was after 2 such boilers. The largest I ever found were two-gallon. With the six of us, two gallons just were too small. You used them both at the same time. One was on the fire and boiling and the other one cooling. When the kids needed a major washing, Dinner dishes, cooking and drinking water, the production of boiled water was a must!
Anyone ever seen Huge "Coffee Boilers"? The old ones were cream colored enamel. My two from the 80's were the blue and white speckled enamel.
One other item was a small funnel (about 1 3/4" diameter) out of brass with nickel/chrome plating and offset to be straight on one side. It turned out to be part of the Elephant Rifle cleaning kit. After your day of hunting, you sat down for a cup of tea. You used the funnel to pour boiling water down your rifle's barrel (or two) to dissolve the priming compounds (Mercuric or Chloric salts) to keep from rusting or pitting the bores. The Nitro solvents didn't work on the priming compounds! Anyone got one of these?
Ivan
over a fire. We camped in Colorado every month of the year and enjoyed this extravagance.
Larry
