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Well, not until I've had a good all-over ironing....... ;)

Not only are we a decent crowd, but we are also excessively modest. Ask anyone here. As for me, well, I'll confess right now to being one of most modest folks you are ever likely to encounter - anywhere.

Welcome from Fenland East Anglia, home of Hereward the Wake, who, if he'd had the chance, would have been a great BP shooter.

Apologies to you, Sir. When folks have names made up of initials, rather than the usual stuff, it's easy to get 'em muxed ip.

I can't wait for Mr MoZac to get his act together, and I'm sure that the rest of you are keen to know - The key-feature is used to adjust the set trigger pull, and the label reads Gun number 7 Percussion Stutzer - a style of heavy hunting rifle, mostly used from a stand. [for] Hunting -...

Now c'mon Mr Mcat - you've kept us hanging on long enough with folks trying to help you out. Howabout some dimensions? THEN I'll tell you what the little key is for, and translate the label. Seems pretty clear to me, TBH. Deal, or I'm done here.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too big for a Jaeger - although we have no details about it, including its weight, it looks to be VERY substantial - I'm betting maybe 15 -16# or more. Jaegers in Europe, where they came from, are for carrying up and down Alpine slopes and mountain hunting. The name is...

D Definitely NOT any kind of Whitworth. Whitworth was utterly English and first designed the rifling system that bears his name, then founded the company that made them, and then developed a hexagonal-bored breech-loading field gun that, too, bore his name.

Any dimensions? Calibre? Weight? Pics right way up? Anything to help us to help you?

@OP - somehow you lucked in on a Parker-Hale 2 bander rifle without really trying. This is the unicorn rifle for many shooters over here who participate in medium-range target shooting out to 600 yards with one, as mentioned late week by David Minshall, a well-known and highly-regarded luminary...

Dang, that was fast!!!

Sadly for me here in UK, Windex is not on sale in any recognisable form. When I left the Army, I also left behind my PX accession card to the two large US bases in the area, so after our last American pal moved back to RX last November - [he used to 'befriend me' large amounts of Windex], I'm...

Due to an oversight ]some say] by the manufacturers, it now appears that Pyrodex and Triple 7 ARE actually explosive, after all. So buying any of them here in UK now requires TWO official documents - 1. Your Firearms Certificate [FAC], and 2. An Explosives License endorsed for both...

Just use BP and can the Pyrodex. I do most of my cleanup of my BP rifles actually on the shooting bench at the range. And I live 20 minutes drive away.

Of course he can make BP at home in France, however, it is not advisable. France that has a national police force - Police Nationale - and a higher level of enforcement, more likely to involve a certain degree of violence - the Gendarmerie Nationale. They inter-train with the French military...

In fact, it was designed that way to reliably ignite using a #209 shotgun primer, as used in the type of firearm we don't discuss here.....

Well, boys, all I can say is that those who store guns for their descendants, who will likely hock them before their grave has settled down, are missing the point. For goodness' sake, shoot 'em! Here in UK, because the way that gun laws work, if you don't use 'em, they'll get took.

Most of the world writes a similar date the same way as those perfidious Brits - Day - Month - Year.

Back in 1784, Lt Henry Shrapnel, an officer in King George III's Royal Artillery, came up with his eponymously-named exploding cannon shell, designed to burst over the heads of the foe. No Germans were harmed in the production of this short description of his life and career in the Army of...

In that case, Sir, you might care to write to the director of the Hungarian National Proof House with your concerns that you believe that you have been misled, and request a true account of the proceedings. Here is the address - Polgári Kézilőfegyver és Lőszervizsgáló Kft. Gyöngysor u. 6...