Here is Wikipedia on Walsh - an amazing man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Walsh

Lang per above might be referring to an article in "Manual of British Rural Sports" 1856 and reprinted about 18 times. And Stephen notes this article is really dated to 1855. If so, then the time span between the release of this article and the first Reilly ad for a pin-fire is basically one year. Technology race was on! Stephen as usual you are spot on in research.

What is clear - the casual gun histories that claim Hodges and Lang created the center break pin-fire guns in UK in 1852 after Crystal Palace are utter lazy balderdash.

Last edited by Argo44; 11/12/23 01:48 AM.
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