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*cracks a beer bottle, hands it to Marraki...*

The rifling for one.
Although I haven't slugged it or cast the chamber, the first thing I did after flicking the action open was look at the muzzle crown.
From there things seemed a bit Metford, but as it -was- time for tea I didn't reach for a roundball and a slugging rod and run the thing through the routine...

Got back to the day's shooting and while out on a walk ckecking targets my friend asked if I'd like to shoot the martini. Easy enough to guess the answer there, I took the rifle and a handful of cartridges through a walk of the range hitting targets at various distances.

Cracked a case at the neck.
The gun wasn't accurate at all too.

The rifle has obviously been through a lot of use, seems like it was loved at one time. I'm sure it's accurate somehow with something.
I miked some cartridges from the box he drew the ones out of for me, the bullets were 311, miked the cases that came out of the gun and they didn't show signs of a bad chamber.

I think the .311 bullets were just too damn much for the tube and it may want paper patched bullets of a smaller initial size.

The gun has Belgian proofs, I've heard of metford martinis coming out of belgium. I'm not really much of a martini guy, but this rifle charms me and I'd like to put some time in and get it back on the sights.

Whatchya think Marraki?

--Tinker

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