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MLAGB = Muzzleloading Association of Great Britain - thousands of members, and it's very odd that you've never heard of them as David Minshall - owner of Research Press and a frequent poster here has an executive position in its ranks. Both he and I frequently mention the title in our posts...

Before we start, West Mercia is not a single county, it is a conglomerate area of a number of county police forces near to and bordering Mid-Wales. This article was first seen last November. Remember that here in UK, in order to shoot an antique, you must have a Firearms Certificate [FAC] if...

I'd be amazed if it was older than 1970. Only Stevie Wonder could be fooled by this item.

Ta for the correctment. So I'm partly-correct about the progressive rifling, used only on the two-band P.58 and P.61. The OP's arm is a three-band whatever it might eventually turn out to be.

The City of London is subject to the same laws of industry, commerce and criminality as the rest of the United Kingdom. It was called the 'city' because it was originally contained within the actual walls of Londinium, the Roman town built here in the 1st century AD. Westminster is also called...

Parker-Hale only used progressive rifling on the P61 so-called Musketoon. The escutcheons are also square-eared, rather than rounded. This is a Parker-Hale repro - I've never seen ANY repro with the correctly-shaped 'ears'. This odd-looking 'arrow-through-crown' stamp indicates that it...

While I cannot speak for the Vatican City, I can, as a resident here in UK, speak about the City of London. Sir, you are wrong in your assertion that the city of London is somehow 'outside' the country in which it is located. Please read - 'The City of London is a district of Greater London...

All were Americans, though, right?

As a furriner, I'm not afraid to have to remind anybody here about giving advice that might aid or abet a felony. So sue me.

In England/UK? Given the hoops we have to jump through to shoot even a replica of an antique firearm, let alone the genuine thing, I was horrified to see that butchery of what had been, over here, a very rare thing indeed. I can count the number of 18th century American-made guns that I've...

Amazingly, I found a 'poor boy' rifle at an auction here in UK. I'd only gone to see a live auction in progress. In its original form, it had been nicely done, with the name 'Kimmel' on the lock, but no other marks that I could see. The really bad news was that somebody had added modern sling...

'Gentlemen, if we do not all hang together, then assuredly, we shall all hang separately'. B. Franklin

If you shoot those things, we need to see it on YouTube, also, also, so that your widder-woman has something to remember you by.

TBH, it's no odder than some of the things we see on T shirts from Japan and other parts of the Far East. My daughter sill wears her T bearing the words - 'Ahoy! Happy melidy [sic] rhino!' on the front, and 'Great days! Good eatings are here!' on the back.

Of all the places in Ireland that I know, Galway is probably one of the least likely as a source of tomato trees. ;)

So far, Mr Kibler has produced American home-grown models - he has yet to make any replication of anything else. With the likes of Pedersoli making fifty or more European-style firearms, that appeal to European tastes, just as muzzleloaders, I can't see them shutting up shop any time soon. As...

By 1922, anybody taking on a barrack raid with a single-shot muzzleloading shotgun almost five feet long would be viewed as distinct liability. In 1921, when my father was busy helping to blow up police stations in Co. Cork, everybody seemed to be armed with Lee-Enfield rifles acquired from...

I'm not a betting man, but I'm of the opinion that this has been up in the rafters since the end of the 19th century, when the illegal ownership, let alone use, of a firearm in Ireland would have landed the offender in the direst of danger, including a star appearance at a hanging. After 1922...

TMI.

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