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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Six

11th February 2019 Tom Pudding 0

Introduction Sometime in mid-2017 I casually remarked to the chap shooting at the next bench to me that I had long been fascinated by the Westley Richards ‘Monkey Tail’ transitional rifle but had never actually [more…]

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