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AIRGUN SNOBBISM REVENGE
Some of my earliest memories are of airguns. To be specific, they are of spring airguns made of steel and wood. The early memories led
A GEM WAITING TO EMERGE? THE BSA SINGLE XII
According to popular wisdom simple things please simple minds. Well, my mind must be simple considering I have a lifelong fascination with simplicity in mecahnical
GIACINTO ZANOTTI- IMPROVING THE SIDELOCK
Photographs courtesy of steniron.com Italian gunmaker Giacinto Zanotti in 1906 produced a a sidelock shotgun. On the surface it looks like a Holland system side
SIMPLE AND BEST
In a past posting (Simple versus cheap) here: SIMPLE VERSUS CHEAP The text focused on the lack of high level finish in simple guns. Recently
INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS
The phrase “internal contradictions” was very popular in academic debates in European universities in the 70s. I was reminded of this phrase of my student
TWO IMAGES, TWO WORLDS APART
The first image is an unsigned painting of an English hunter around the end of the 18th century. The other is a photograph of the