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sakmyk
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Re: reasearching a Rodda?
16/05/08 06:36 AM

I feel a bit quilty of hijacking this thread.

Does a designation ".451 caliber" in a 1875 made rifle make a good sense to any of you?

Today I called to Dickson & McNaughton as I promised above, and when browsing throuh the Henry ledgers they actually found an entry on the same number (#1093) that I have on this Rodda. Also the year of manufacture seemed to be dead on. They said that A. Henry had made a rifle with that number on 1875. I have dated this Rodda to be made somewhere between 1875-1879.

According to what I understood via phone, these two rifles aren't the same, however. Records mentioned a ".451 caliber" rifle on that number, whereas mine is 16-bore.

As I assumed in my earlier post, I had very much difficulties in understanding the spoken language through phone. Furthermore, to my inexperienced ear this gentleman's dialect wasn't the easiest. Many of the details I missed altogether, and they also said that the Henry records are in some cases hard to interpret.

I must say that I remained a little bit confused after the call. There was a correct number on "correct" year. Of course that can happen just by chance, but still...

I'm chewing over this seemingly odd characterisation of a ".451 caliber". This guy may have said 'bore' instead of 'caliber', I can't recall, but does that make any more sense?

What do you think?

Regards,
Saku

Edited by sakmyk (16/05/08 01:51 PM)

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reasearching a Rodda?	bouldersmith	07/05/08 12:00 PM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	sakmyk	09/05/08 04:39 AM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	peter	09/05/08 05:17 AM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	sakmyk	09/05/08 08:36 AM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	8borerifle	09/05/08 07:45 AM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	sakmyk	16/05/08 06:36 AM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	8borerifle	19/05/08 11:52 PM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	sakmyk	20/05/08 05:54 AM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	8borerifle	20/05/08 06:51 AM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	Marrakai	20/05/08 02:32 PM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	sakmyk	17/06/08 03:38 PM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	450_366	18/06/08 06:40 AM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	sakmyk	18/06/08 06:52 AM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	Nakihunter	18/06/08 10:10 AM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	tinker	18/06/08 05:38 PM
Re: reasearching a Rodda?	mehulkamdar	09/05/08 02:12 AM

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