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It’s really beautiful work

Great to see arrows , they are ancient things, so should be allowed. I get good groups at 40 yards with a Hoyt ionex bow , illegal to hunt with them in uk , but France . 20 mins across the channel. Thing is they are a silent killer, very discreet. Ha ha I find cheap grp Chinese arrows the...

I change old shotgun springs for springs on repro locks. I had collected a few £15 old eBay locks over time. The great saver was one on an L&R flintlock. But I had to drill an additional hole for the pin

Just paid holts auctioneers uk £260 for an almost finished pair of 28gage shotgun barrels. Had to have them , bought from auction photos I’ll collect them 3 sep when they have a valuation day 24 miles from me. Or it’s a 400 mile long trip to collect them , it’s coming with my mountain...

All scrap steering columns in Nigeria had to be cut up or the locals would make a ml gun out of them. BP ok $4 a pile newspaper bundle. Of course a hammer no trigger and a bit of rubber inner tube for a spring. Probably red matches for a primer. But most used bow and arrow for robbers ...

Not so lucky as you , Lagos 1978- 1981. They said I was a small boy when I arrived but by 79 they said I was a big boy. Still miss them so much belonged to hunters club But it’s min 800 miles N east to even hope for buff or elephant

I prefer more scenes of adventure where in the 1700s people scratched the map of their trek into the wilderness or fought in a battle , so much history you have. You may recall I sent some historical horn maps and designs from Holts San Francisco Auction . Some $39,000 I can send them again...

Right question Why mountain rifle? I just won a 1845 percussion mountain carbine , with a 23” barrel at holts uk auction, and it was described as a 30bore mountain carbine, it’s just out of interest , I mean I could be a short Jager as it was made in Germany. I wish you all well

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A new thread , how interesting you don’t say, but what about at 81 I still got my hair

Ps. You cannot beat liver bacon and onions, actually not good for you as very high in cholesterol . And mashed chicken livers on toast , the french are the masters of liver

Haha so the above game was shot in the USA amazing , me an old fool and I thought Africa Ha ha forgive me

Some body else is 81 like me congratulations. , and some have come from my village called Africa it seems, 78-81 Lagos , all brothers from there, Biafra war ruined the hunting , they ate everything in the bush for hundreds of miles , never shot my .375 and only had 5 cartridges, well it was not...

I was looking for the string of converting cartridge barrels to muzzle loaders , I can do that easily but takes time Come holts UK auction , just won £750 on a German mountain percussion carbine Now in the the final post auction stages a pair of 28g unfinished shotgun barrels is put up for...

In Nigeria. We had a big boxer mixed with a bush dog. , he was lovely and protected our kids. He bit to many people in our compound and in the road, we had Arab night watch too, he loved our Skipper , Oh he had been castrated to calm him down. Dogs don’t ask questions when they go for...

Too right only got double rifles in safe

Lost what I wrote. Ha ha. Anyway worked on my L&R lock with a fine stone. Then sorted through my collection of 1880 main spring till I got it right So not bad nice and quick. I tried it in slow motion but slow clip too big a file A happy man now

L&R locks. Been a bid down with them. I have a flint made in 1840 and it’s as good as new and no trouble. However worked on the L&R lock with fine grind stone and fitted a 1885 shotgun main spring off a pile of locks I have. Well at last not bad. Slow motion clip too big to add