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19th Century

Bullet Points

27th January 2025 Tom Pudding 0

Every once in a while I get involved with some project or other relating to my hobby of collecting and shooting antique firearms and while individually these may not justify a separate GP article, I [more…]

20th Century

Report From Kenya, 1955 – Part Eight

13th August 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1955, at the height of the Mau Mau Rebellion, my uncle John Alldridge produced a series of reports from Kenya for the Birmingham Mail and the Manchester Evening News – Jerry F Wally’s lion [more…]

19th Century

Ancient and Modern (or a Tale of Two Cartridges: 2)

9th August 2023 Tom Pudding 0

In Part One I described the processes involved in reloading the (to me at any rate) ‘modern’ .303 British cartridge, all stages of which can easily be automated. Now let’s look at what is involved [more…]

Hobbies

Wildfowling: Tools of the Trade part one

16th June 2022 Columba Palumbus 0

A few people have asked me since the last article to write a little bit about a fundamental part of the sport, which would be the guns themselves. I have touched briefly on this previously, [more…]

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My solutions to mass/school shootings

11th June 2022 Fred Brownbill 0

  When I watch the tragedies unfold on these mass shootings, I do not hold my breath as I know that the DemonRats will be pounding their chests and exploiting the deaths for what they [more…]

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Unnecessary Engineering

9th February 2022 Going Postal 0

Project 1: Scope Dials Welcome all and please gather round so I can waste a few minutes of your precious time on describing something that didn’t really need doing and no doubt would interest few. [more…]

19th Century

1850s British and American Rifle-Musket Cartridges Compared

2nd February 2022 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction My main interest in firearms has always been their technology and development, particularly during the 19th century which saw an incredible advance from flintlock, smoothbore muskets to semi and even fully automatic weapons. This [more…]

20th Century

The .303 Pattern 1914 – the Best Battle Rifle the British Army Never Had?

2nd November 2021 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction The humiliations suffered by the British Army at the hands of untrained Boer irregulars during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 caused a great deal of concern at the War Office where questions were soon [more…]

Animals

How to be Top (Dog)

16th September 2021 Columba Palumbus 0

There is no such thing as the perfect gundog, and anyone who says there is should be ashamed of the barefaced lies they tell. There are some incredibly well trained dogs out there, and some [more…]

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