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Marrakai
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Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"
20/03/06 12:37 PM

Guys:
I am a tiny bit suspicious of the .450 hammer-gun because of the longitudinal marks still visible from striking-up the barrels. That kind of lazy finish is not characteristic of Jeffery rifles! All nitro Jeffery rifles that I have examined, and I have seen a few!, were very well finished indeed. At the time, competition for market share amongst the top British rifle-builders (Jeffery, Westley-Richards, and the London firms) was very high according to published accounts, and I simply can't imagine a finish as rough as that being turned out on an engraved nitro gun. Admittedly the close-up photography will accentuate any imperfections, but to my mind that finish is not what I would expect.

Hey colorado, I simply can't agree with this!

In reply to:

There is NO slow down between hammerless and hammer gun cocking

I own several of either, in both rifles and shotguns, and simply can't imagine how you arrive at that opinion. A thousand gun-makers and their several million customers world-wide are all wrong? There is a very good reason why the entire world abandoned the hammer-gun a hundred years ago, despite the fact that they were the most elegant configuration ever designed, manifestly the safest, and the absolute pinnacle of the gunmakers' art: they were too slow!!

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Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	JohnTheGreek	06/06/07 06:51 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	bonanza	06/06/07 08:34 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	Dutch44	21/03/06 11:10 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	Judson	20/03/06 12:11 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	Marrakai	20/03/06 12:37 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	400NitroExpress	21/03/06 06:17 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	4seventy	21/03/06 10:43 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	400NitroExpress	21/03/06 04:11 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	banzaibird	21/03/06 10:14 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	JohnTheGreek	03/10/06 05:38 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	Bill_Cooley	06/06/07 12:56 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	400NitroExpress	06/06/07 04:53 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	empirevr	03/10/06 05:59 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	JohnTheGreek	04/06/07 10:01 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	mickey	05/06/07 01:31 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	500Nitro	05/06/07 03:15 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	mickey	05/06/07 09:05 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	500Nitro	05/06/07 09:07 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	mickey	05/06/07 11:23 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	500Nitro	05/06/07 11:37 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	BlainSmipy	20/03/06 03:37 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	Judson	18/03/06 11:29 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	500Nitro	20/03/06 02:29 AM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	Judson	20/03/06 12:03 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire!"	JohnTheGreek	19/03/06 10:03 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	bonanza	19/03/06 11:05 PM
Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	JohnTheGreek	20/03/06 04:52 PM
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Re: "The Sun shall never set on the British Empire	BlainSmipy	20/03/06 03:16 AM
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