Hello NitroX,

I couldn't agree with you more more. People always say, "If that gun could only talk." Well, every once in a while, they do talk to us.

Here, John Dickson & Son is telling us the specifications of this rifle when it was originally built on, or before, Oct. 20, 1868. A copy of the original ledger.

Translated:

You can almost see the recorder, dipping his large feathered quill pen into the inkwell and carefully scribing the information, line by line, for us all to read 145 years later.

And then, 32 years after Dickson built this rifle, the rifle talks to us again. Through the Scribe's hand quilled entry into Alex Henry's Ledger, when the gun was rebuilt 113 years ago.

Translated:

And then we have Capt. Malcolm McNeill himself, talking directly to us through his book. He tells us of using this rifle during his adventures with it in Africa. He tells how he killed 3 man-eating Lions, 2 with this rifle.

When you read, you can almost hear him speaking to you "out loud" in your mind.

What an adventure, and state-of-the-art hunting in 1901. On the backs of Camels? ? ?

I'm going to make a promise, that I will use this same rifle, to shoot any lions that terrorize the
citizens of the State of Wisconsin.