What weapons did they use?
Bushrangers normally armed themselves with the best weapons available, normally pistols and revolvers. The early bushrangers normally carried flintlock muskets or horse pistols, while a few carried flintlock shotguns. During the 1860s bushrangers carried percussion revolvers and pistols, sometimes up to nine at a time with extra loaded and capped cylinders carried in pockets. They would also often carry shotguns and stolen police carbines . By the time of the Kellys they would normally carry one or two rimfire or breech-loading revolvers and possibly some form of longarm. Interestingly, at Glenrowan, although both sides carried the latest weapons available, Ned himself preferred an obsolete 20 year-old Colt percussion revolver and a 25 year-old Colt percussion revolving rifle, itself based on a much older technology. Source: Stackpool, A. 1998 pers com. More detail on Weapons is found in Andrew’s article on Firearms.
