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| 07/09/23 11:59 PM |
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Re: Osa & Martin Johnson's Lake Paradise arsenal
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Many Americans were familiar with Winchester lever guns at that time and Winchester ads said the .405 was suitable for dangerous game.
Such would be brought over obviously but I reckon there were some sales by the various companies...Winchester, Marlin, to Africa, also.
I know Winchester sold guns in Latin America where they became very popular (spurring on local production, rossi, etc) and of course our Aussie members know that Winchester .44-40s were sold in some quantity Down Under.
Would be very interesting to find out just how many were sold in Africa. I know a professional hunter who wanted my Marlin BAD. It was the 3/4 magazine Sporting Carbine version in .30-30 and handled so delightfully and truth be known, there is a lot of practical use for such a gun on a lot of bush game all over and everywhere, Africa included.