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Hey jOe. See first page. I thought about owning a double for many years. In November 2015 I went out to a gun show near Dulles Airport to buy a Thompson. I came back with a Reilly - my first ever double. It still is the most perfectly fitted gun for me. I don't hunt much anymore, maybe once a year in Missouri - one of my VN compatriots, who served many years abroad in other capacities with me, has a farm there. But I do shoot clays about every week or two here. I got interested in when the gun was made, found a confused mess about Reilly history, and got into it. And I subsequently spent a lot of time in a desert region abroad with nothing much else to do. The more I delved into 19th century newspapers the more interesting it became and history really did come alive,. jOe, sometimes you are funny; Many times you are just mean-spirited and vicious...but Alabamians expect that from Tennesseans, you know. Anyway, it all can be read above....oh wait a minute, we Alabamians know that's a difficult skill for a Tennessean...but there are a lot of pics. (Frank, just good naturerdly giving you as good as I get.
Last edited by Argo44; 07/30/19 10:48 PM.
Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch
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I've researched every gun I've owned from 160 years old to 10 years old...
But I never cared how many times James Purdey, W.C.Scott or John Browning had a bowel movement in a day.
Those 3 were the only real innovators in my opinion...the rest were just followers.
Reilly made some nice guns or had some nice guns made...who cares he was a follower.
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...but Alabamians expect that from Tennesseans, you know. Anyway, it all can be read above....oh wait a minute, we Alabamians know that's a difficult skill for a Tennessean... Preach on Argo44 & pass the plate as I live w/ a Tennessean..... Cheers, Raimey rse
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Those 3 were the only real innovators in my opinion...the rest were just followers.
Yeah & they were all following the Bohemians & the Germans as the rest were playing tiddlywinks. Cheers, Raimey rse
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I've always had trouble understanding your Bohemians & the German gun e'ffliction for lack of a better word....
They made nice rifles but I've never seen one of their shotguns I'd own.
While the English and American gun makers were playing "tittlywinks"...start a thread and show us what they offered that stood the test of time.
James Purdey the double under bite...W.C. Scott the top lever...John Browning gun designs too numerous to list and a lot still in use today.
Start a thread and top those 3.
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Not sure how I was badged w/ "Belgian gun e'ffliction(sic)(affliction)" phrase but that is just a facade. Belgium is a good ways from Bohemia.
Cheers,
Raimey rse
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I've always had trouble understanding your Bohemians & the German gun e'ffliction for lack of a better word....
They made nice rifles but I've never seen one of their shotguns I'd own.
I realize they made a few nice guns. Just remember John Browning put their name on the gun making map. I don't think John Browning had much to do with putting Bohemian and German gunmakers on the map. He did have something to do with the Belgians, giving Henri Piper's baby, FN, something to fill their production lines.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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You caught me before I edited. I don't have a clue or a care where Bohemia is or was....
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I've always had trouble understanding your Bohemians & the German gun e'ffliction for lack of a better word....
They made nice rifles but I've never seen one of their shotguns I'd own.
While the English and American gun makers were playing "tittlywinks"...start a thread and show us what they offered that stood the test of time.
James Purdey the double under bite...W.C. Scott the top lever...John Browning gun designs too numerous to list and a lot still in use today.
Start a thread and top those 3.
Here's the edited version... Canvasback do you ever tire of your childish games.
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Getting back to Reilly, I've posted an advertisement above which seems to indicate that at least from the 1830's J.C. Reilly was boring his own barrels: I ran across this delightful and interesting passage in an 1894 book called "Incidents of Foreign Sport and Travel," 1894, by Colonel Pollok. It mentions two points: 1. The integrity of an 1840's muzzle loader barrel by Reilly. 2. His opinion of Liege made barrels.
Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch
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