Jens,

Thank you very much again! In 1972, I spent my summer holidays with an aunt in Calcutta and the gun shops were all very large and in rpestigious locations, all of them down one long street. In addition to the old British businesses which had, by then, been acquired by Indian companies, there were Indian dealers like G M Biswas and Co, Ashootoosh and Co and some more - age messes your memory up. The state of Manton in the little hovel is particularly sad and emblematic of what happened to India's great hunting and shooting traditions. Sad, but this is exactly what happens when countries let socialists take over. Now let me go before I turn this into a political argument!