...and it should be obvious that my comments about the Shortened Range Pattern rifle were directed at the examples illustrated in Levallois's two preceding posts, not the Rigby rifles.

A little less shiraz, and I would have made that point a little clearer at the time...

I just love these old things, a very nice NZ-marked range pattern and a Westley Richards barrelled civilian Long Tom share the company of my Lee Speeds and Enfield Carbines in the gunroom.

Envious of those Rigbys, though!