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It seems I got a gentle reprimand as the moderator thought I was talking about a cartridge .36. This was not the case as my .36” double rifle is indeed a muzzle loader. The added extract on loading tables for cartridge double rifles was to indicate BP loadings , pressures and velocities ...

Oh great. I love France, Erwin is french too. I am near London , seems my ancestors came from Courtenay SE of Paris . Seems I need a “permit to carry” before I can bring my ml guns to France . So far in 5000 miles I haven’t seen a french hog. Guess I need new glasses . Anyway love from...

Sorry last rifle is by mistake it’s a 577 ml Big game rifle made in Scotland

I must apologise for showing my 70 th birthday an unmentionable , I did not think I would make it with cancer , but here I am now 81. You just got to keep fighting it . They can keep me alive but cannot cure me Well it’s a 450/400 I think Westely Richards made it as they supplied Lyon , ex...

Guess I should show the barrels etc Well two coats of boiled linseed oil dried today. So I thought I would assemble it . The barrels 1885 .500 mint Metford rifling, as I said breach plugged and converted to percussion ( 209 primer ) barrels made by Westely Richards Birmingham BP proofed ...

Gave my .5 double rifle barrels , converted back to ml , newly made stock by me , first coat of linseed oil I bought a slab of English walnut from sawmill , £55 Barrels only bought at auction £285 by Westly richards

That looks more room than my Rapido french Motorhome. 2001, bit tatty on outside but nice inside , got it for £9k five years ago , been across France to Med an another to Bordeaux area It’s home for home 23 mpg now expensive to run at £10 a gallon , do have great trips in it Love from...

Ha ha. My old export sales guy complained people were stealing his biscuits from his draw. They were long 18” drawers in his old but nice oak desk. After he left we cleaned out his drawer and found a nest of mice right at the back of the drawers full of bits of biscuit's. Yes True !!!

Ha ha. You know it’s 1853 really , the pig sticker , hunting rifle , ( ex knife sharpening steel ) thus a jager which means to hunt You Git to see our Hungarian friend on utube

Hello magic you have a Feldstutzer too. I had to have it after I watched utube and our Hungarian friend , Swiss watches etc No police permit to fire it in uk. Its private purchase , embellished a bit, And a half cocktail on tumbler. No half cock on a military one , 1953. Must write to...

I shoot the same EXACT pellets in my .22 and 177 in my pcp pump up air guns and they are deadly accurate to 50 yards. They come from ChechRepublic EU , I think a guy brings them to England and sells them on EBay uk. They come on .30 also as have some , they won’t need much BP Doubt if you...

While I am rambling on I got these .35 81g air gun pellets of eBay uk from. , more out of interest , bit expensive at £18/100 at the time I thought great for squirrels and rabbits , sorry not allowed to try them in uk, just for my collection. Ha ha.

Meant to add the shot barrels, recently added, are 28 bore ml , new, unused , both barrels around 1885 note 400 yards on leaf sights , just no information on it

My .36 ml. Add photos came up. Magic

I was looking at Greame wrights book for BP double rifles .360- 2.25 BP 50grain, 155 g bullet. 10 tons pressure 1700 ft sec 993 ft lbs .450 3.5”. BP120 g , 270g bullet 11 tons 1975 ft sec 2336 ft lbs .500 3”. BP 136g, 340g bullet , 11tons, 1925ft sec. 2794 ft sec

The .36 is very interesting to me as I have a .36 double rifle , by the long range rifle company Birmingham. No police permit to fire it . And no info on it , think it’s midland gun company but their factory and records was obliterated by ww2 bombs Sights go to 400 yards rifling twist to...

Cold damp and miserable uk Had a go at a garden squirrel but my pcp air is getting too low, I need a £24 service kit for my 3000 psi Hall pump . Just looking down garden from my chair. I made the final plate , left, for the above 28g barrel wedge. It’s now epoxy tacked in place now waiting...

Hello I am 81 too, fairly fit and healthy but got 4 tumours under control with tablets , makes me lithargic and my toes hurt I always think outside the box , and see no reason why reproduction muzzle loaders should not have a red dot or scope as it make them more accurate . My friend has to put...

I have to make a trial steel patten with a slot so the barrel holding wedge can go through it. I cannot copy the .36 rifle barrels , as the 28g barrels are so thin in comparison nor do I want to add heat as the ribs could come apart I decided to make a 6” long plate which bridges to thicker...

Oh that’s nice. My wife complained about my rifles on the wall but three years later still there ,