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I have just acquired, on a princely bid of £2 ( it was Holts upper estimate) a bundle of 4 books.

One is a grubby and fragile copy of W W Greener’s Modern Breechloaders, published 1871.

I looked to see what he had to say about Rook Rifles, to find that he did not use the term instead calling them as shown above Breech-Loading Pea-Rifles.

They were certainly referred to in his later works as Rook or Rook and Rabbit rifles.

Historic Bore, do you know when the term first appeared in print?

Last edited by Parabola; 09/07/24 05:49 AM.