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Marrakai
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Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle
      28/11/07 08:43 PM

Thanks gentlemen. Most of these questions will have to wait till I take delivery of the gun. The fully-rifled barrels are in the order of 20 inches, and the gun is fairly light, built for a 3-dram charge at most IMHO. At this stage I can only speculate on the cartridge for which it was chambered, probably 2 1/2 inch, round ball, paper case. We'll see soon enough!

Daryl: While I am prepared to concede that patch-boxes may have been fitted to a few very early breech-loaders, as a matter of 'tradition' at the time, the very thin chamber-walls are suggestive of cut-down tubes from an earlier piece. IMO it is not unlikely that both the barrels and the stock were once parts of a very nice 12-bore muzzle-loading rifle. We'll probably never know, and of course it matters not. Fun to speculate, though!

Tinker: If you visit without one of your 16-bores, you'll jolly-well be sent back home to get it!

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* New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle Marrakai 28/11/07 01:58 AM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle mehulkamdar   28/11/07 05:20 PM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle Marrakai   28/11/07 08:43 PM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle degoins   28/11/07 11:29 PM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle DarylS   29/11/07 03:23 AM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle Yogi000   01/12/07 03:23 AM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle Bill_Cooley   03/12/07 01:30 PM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle dons   28/11/07 04:38 AM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle DarylS   28/11/07 05:06 AM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle tinker   28/11/07 04:03 PM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle CptCurlAdministrator   28/11/07 11:47 AM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle gatsby   28/11/07 02:23 AM
. * * Re: New Toy: 12-bore Howdah Rifle peter   28/11/07 02:55 AM

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