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19th Century

Sir Joseph Whitworth and the Confederate Sniper

2nd July 2025 Tom Pudding 2596 Comments

Introduction In March 2024 I purchased a first generation, Birmingham-made Parker-Hale replica of a Whitworth military pattern muzzle-loading rifle of the late 1850s. These iconic rifles gained legendary status following their use in the American [more…]

19th Century

Bullet Points

27th January 2025 Tom Pudding 2571 Comments

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 2974 Comments

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 1631 Comments

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…]

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Wildfowling: Tools of the Trade part one

16th June 2022 Columba Palumbus 2930 Comments

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 1658 Comments

  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 3428 Comments

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 2703 Comments

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 3637 Comments

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…]

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