If you're so fortunate to get yourself a Paradox or the like, you can have a bullet mould made by https://accuratemolds.com/ . (design in Graeme Wright). My advice would be to very accurately measure the bore (3-point digital), and have a mould made exactly bore size. (The replica alu-brass mold...
Well, if you like antique guns and if you have time to visit a museum with perhaps some guns in it, you might want to check on a double typical S-A phenomenon: the Cape Gun (or Cape Rifle) : one bore smooth, the other rifled. Quite some of them in the percussion era had notchless sights as in...
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Some years later, a best H&H 10-bore was mentioned in the catalogue of this same auction house. As this gun was next in serial number to my other 10-bore, yet completely different, I had to have it, after all, I already had the double page in the Number Book … (well, if...
Baker and Lake having announced in their book a Volume 2, I got in touch with Mr David Baker, who referred me to his co-author Mr Roger Lake, who was to write this 2nd volume. It was Roger Lake who informed me that the first owner was not ‘Framers’ but Captain J. C. Francis, Senior Instructor op...
It was not my intention to start a serial, but I was advised -thanks again Jerome!- to keep my first couple of posts short one: spam prevention.
Yet I have no doubt the same objective as the members of the Paradox board: preserving for future generations as many of the only 1463 made (plus some...
I found this forum ‘googling’ for ‘paradox’. Let me start with a confession: I’m no big game hunter. There are no rhinos and lions anyway here in Burgundy, France (although lots of wild boar and deer roaming my back-garden, and even an increasing number of -highly protected- wolves are feasting...
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