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Are you familiar with Marvin the Martian? A little cartoon character, that is. They are both wearing very similar headgear.

My Pritchett Volunteer P51-style rifle [yes, THAT Pritchett, he of bullet fame] gets used in anger about every six months or so. A nice, slightly-loose 535gr Minié bullet over 60gr of 1Fg seems to work quite well. This was eight shots at 50m earlier this year, I surmise that a heavier load...

I'd say that given the gun was new in 1986, and it's now 2024 your question is pretty much redundant.

g = grams, not grains.

True. It all began in the aftermath of WW1, when there were almost five million EX-service personnel who wanted something better than the crap-shoot they were handed. They were promised 'a land fit for heroes' and that never even nearly happened. The government of the day, seeing what had...

My .357 Mag Korth didn't have any marks on the cylinder. It was used when I bought in 1982 for four times the price of a similar spec S&W, and I put an honest ten thousand through it before the Day of Doom in 1997 when we 'lost' our centre-fire cartridge-loading handguns on mainland GB...

What bore should it be?

UK is no longer in the Eurozone, and those who live in UK are citizens, like it reads on my passport.

I'll just refer you to the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and leave it at that........................................ :(

Nope. As THE Pedersoli and Uberti main importer, they've got it all pretty much tied up. Everything I'll ever seen, gun-wise, has been either suppled by them to the dealer concerned, or is second-hand. Of course there are a VERY large number of militaria and genuine antique dealerships, some...

I guess that by Ruger standards that was a 'same-day shipping', right?

Why not just write 'cocking piece'?

Commonly used here to express disgust at the way we are over-charged for just about anything that comes from outside the UK...like percussion caps. There is is one main dealer for BP supplies here in UK - Henry Krank up in South Yorkshire, almost 180 miles from me. Add to that that anything...

When the ROA came over here, there was a little note in the packaging that acknowledged that 'some shooters may find that the pistol shoots high at the usual pistol ranges - 25 yards - for this reason, Sturm, Ruger Inc will supply an extra-high replacement foresight - easily installed.' I...

Far better late than never!! Welcome from the land of Hereward the Wake, the first Englishman to give the French [well, Normans, but you get the idea] a really hard time....

Ah. Pity, that. Local farmer here has a Scoobie pickup with 430,000 miles on it. Worth zero - a replacement would cost him £45K.

That's a total? Wow. Glad you're OK. Here in UK that would probably be reparable.

Don't use oil on the cylinder axis pin - used a good light grease. That's what you took off it in the fust place, right?

There is only ONE Proof House in Italy - the national proof house in Gardone Val Trompia, Brescia. PN = Pulvero Nero = black powder The letters are the date code - see above. In a square cartouche - the arm is for export. No cartouche - home market only. The small coat of arms stamp are...

A LOT of people here, apparently.