Forums.NitroExpress.com

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact NitroExpress.com: English Cape Gun

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies

*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

You are not logged in. [Login]

Main Index · Search · Active Topics
New user · Who's Online · FAQ · Calendar

Double Rifles, Single Shots & Combinations >> Single Shots & Combination Guns

3DogMike
.400 member

Reged: 29/01/15
Posts: 1464
Loc: Western Slope, Colorado USA

Re: English Cape Gun
21/03/22 03:14 AM

Interesting Combo gun and quite early.
Thomas Barnsley was born 1841 in Birmingham, and as an adult emigrated to the Orange Free State (South Africa) in 1874. Principally had shops in Bloemfontein, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth.
The gun was almost assuredly made in Birmingham and likely by Philip Webley for Barnsley.
When you take delivery and can get pictures of the proof marks, and any other marks, that would possibly be useful.

Those multitude of leaf sights are seemingly typical of guns made for the South Africa trade. I have read that it was not uncommon back in the day, if unable to approach closer, that one would use the "long range" leaf (or sometimes a fitted ladder sight) and blaze off at a herd. The .577/.450 MH bullet will certainly kill plains game at great distances……..Wounding, and later hunter ethics, were apparently of little concern.

ADDED: the Grahamstown barrel address would date the gun to 1877 or later. Barnsley only opened his own business in Grahamstown in 1877, prior to that he worked for Grainger & Sons. All of the Thomas Barnsley shops were closed by 1885-1887.
- Mike

--------------------
"Will Rogers never met a fighter pilot"
- Anon

“Always carry a flask of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake."
-- W. C. Fields

Post Extras

Print Post

Remind Me!

Notify Moderator

Entire topic
Subject	Posted by	Posted on
English Cape Gun	bigskybound	21/03/22 02:30 AM
Re: English Cape Gun	DarylS	21/03/22 02:45 AM
Re: English Cape Gun	NitroX	21/03/22 07:54 PM
Re: English Cape Gun	Huvius	22/03/22 02:54 AM
Re: English Cape Gun	DarylS	22/03/22 03:55 AM
Re: English Cape Gun	TH44	22/03/22 11:52 AM
Re: English Cape Gun	lancaster	22/03/22 04:12 PM
Re: English Cape Gun	DarylS	23/03/22 06:33 AM
Re: English Cape Gun	lancaster	23/03/22 04:32 PM
Re: English Cape Gun	LRF	23/03/22 10:32 PM
Re: English Cape Gun	NitroX	23/03/22 06:27 PM
Re: English Cape Gun	bigskybound	21/03/22 10:19 PM
Re: English Cape Gun	3DogMike	21/03/22 03:14 AM
Re: English Cape Gun	bigskybound	21/03/22 04:07 AM
Re: English Cape Gun	93x64mm	21/03/22 08:51 AM
Re: English Cape Gun	TH44	21/03/22 12:35 PM
Re: English Cape Gun	bigskybound	21/03/22 10:17 PM
Re: English Cape Gun	lancaster	21/03/22 02:58 AM

Extra information

1 registered and 134 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator: Huvius

Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Thread views: 4255

Jump to

NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact

Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved