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I am loving your work 'blokeuptheroad'
I don't have a FAC but as a Mechanical Engineer I've always loved guns - and always felt a bit guilty because of that love.
I've fired guns and my brother has a FAC so I've tried a few over the years but I've never seen a Martini-Henry.
It's a very interesting old gun and I really enjoyed the details on the ammunition manufacturing process. Keep up the good work and I hope you enjoy shooting for many years to come :o)
Not a bad group. 🙂
Thanks, the rifle is capable of better though I reckon. Watch me disappear down the frustrating rabbit hole of chasing incrementally smaller groups until the end of my days!
I am loving your work ‘blokeuptheroad’
I don’t have a FAC but as a Mechanical Engineer I’ve always loved guns – and always felt a bit guilty because of that love.
I’ve fired guns and my brother has a FAC so I’ve tried a few over the years but I’ve never seen a Martini-Henry.
It’s a very interesting old gun and I really enjoyed the details on the ammunition manufacturing process. Keep up the good work and I hope you enjoy shooting for many years to come :o)
Thanks! It really does feel like bringing a small piece of history back to life. I don't think I will be selling it any time soon.
I know what you mean about the guilt thing - I brace myself for an argument/look of horror whenever I am asked 'so what are your interests'? Best strategy I've found is to mention mountain biking first, to throw them off the scent! It's marginally more socially acceptable. It's not guilt as such with me, I don't feel I am doing anything wrong or have anything to feel guilty about, it's just a recognition that most people don't get it and often have a very skewed view of what recreational target shooting is all about.
An additional hoop is you need an explosives licence for the black powder, which (bizarrely) you don’t for smokeless powders.
it’s not bizarre at all. smokeless is a lot more stable and not as easy to ignite as black powder, you need a wood lined box for a ‘Mode B store' for black powder and when i used to load i definitely didn’t wear any synthetic fibres in case of a static spark!
smokeless isn’t going to ignite just by looking at it 🙂
Just on the YouTube channel that was reboring a rifle, I think its a American channel? They don't have proof house laws over there like we do in the UK so depending on which state you live in then you can pretty much what you like.
I did hesitate to post this. I hope people don’t find it insensitive in light of recent news events.
Not even vaguely similar in my eyes. Great posts.
Good interesting post @blokeuptheroad
My father had a Martini Henry which was converted to .22lr. Obviously not as exciting as the original! 😀
it’s not bizarre at all. smokeless is a lot more stable and not as easy to ignite as black powder, you need a wood lined box for a ‘Mode B store’ for black powder and when i used to load i definitely didn’t wear any synthetic fibres in case of a static spark!
smokeless isn’t going to ignite just by looking at it 🙂
I meant bizzare as in feeling not needing a licence for smokeless is odd, not that needing one for BP is! Whilst BP is more hazardous to handle and store, smokeless powder can also be seriously misused if someone is so minded and should, to my mind be licensed, from a security rather than fire safety perspective.
I meant bizzare as in feeling not needing a licence for smokeless is odd, not that needing one for BP is! Whilst BP is more hazardous to handle and store, smokeless powder can also be seriously misused if someone is so minded and should, to my mind be licensed, from a security rather than fire safety perspective.
And making the selling of fireworks to the general public appear what it is: absolutely stupid.
Lovely rifle BTW.
I'm a shooter but only 10m air pistol these days.
@derek_starship agreed. Re 10m air pistol, there's no 'only' about it. An Olympic discipline and extremely challenging to shoot well. Good luck with it 👍