BUCKLEY'S CHANCE, or how to anoy your neibors

[alleramilitaria]

its amazing what you can do with a little time, some photos, and a good hardware store near bye (home depot).

take a look at the bottom of the page..
http://alleramilitaria.ieasysite.com/aweb_site_009.htm

yea the neibors love me LOL


dave

[Tony Smith]

Looks more like a US 57mm AT gun rather than a British 6pdr. Could you elaborate on the name "Buckley's Chance"? This is very similar to a uniquely Australian phrase and I wonder how it might have ended up on a US gun.

[alleramilitaria]

tony, the photos i used to build the thing with were from ones used in the desert early in the war without the flash hidder.

and as you should know what buckleys chance means (my wife is aussie) and i hear it from time to time, last time when i ask if i could get a CCKW. so it seemed like the thing to do at the time.
dave

[Keith Webb]

The saying, as I recall came from a sort of rhyming slang, deriving from an Aussie store, Buckley's and Nunn, which is why when you have almost no chance, it's Buckley's or none, Buckleys being the nearest thing to none.

[David Ellery]

Hi Dave, I like your 6 pdr,What did you build it out of ? This winter I hope to build the same as you have, thought I might incorperate a gas firing system into the beastie, but what I need before I can go any further are some scale drawings and lots of pictures, so if anyone can help regarding these things please let me know. Thanks David...

[alleramilitaria]

hey dave, its dave :

you want plans, well ok send me a beer

LOL

no really i would love to send you a set but..... they dont exist!

the gun was built due to a larg amount of frustration from the local german unit having 5 pices of armor and the allies having,,,, well nothing! so i went to the hardware store bought a load of PVC tube, steel condute, plywood, 2X8s and lots of oter stuff for the grand total of about $150 USD or $500 Aussie $.

then i built it with a old jeep axel i had laying around in the back game room of the house. a little hint if you build it in the house measure the doors before you put it together.

well it took about 2hrs for the germans to figure out that it was not real, even after i fired it.

any help you need just let me know and i will be glad to help. my advise is to build a early version, there is no muzzel break and its simpiler to make.

thanks
dave

[gjamo]

The saying "Buckley,s chance" actually came from an escaped convict William Buckley. Buckley and 2 of his mates escaped form the poms at the original Sorento attempt at a Port Phillip bay settlement. Shortly after that the fleet left for Tasmainia not to return for 35 years. Amazingly Buckley survived with the help of local aboriginals although there are strong rumours they he ate his two companions. The book on the subject is fascinating. Hence the coining of the phrase "Buckley,s and none" meaning not much chance at all in Auzzie slang.