Researcher, that was an excellent post and had I known it was you who wrote it, I'd have given credit. It certainly makes historical research easier. And Dr, Haus, your forum post is excellent.
My problem now comes with trying to understand what was going in Saint-Etienne about the same time....what cartridges were available a what were the guns being chambered for. In fact, I was going to translate part of it into French, post it on
http://www.passionlachasse.com/forum and see what Neltir and company will say.
I'll explain my post about dating a French gun and its chambering in a separate post.
