Lieutenant John Chard: What's our strength? Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Seven officers including surgeon, commissaries and so on; Adendorff now I suppose; wounded and sick 36, fit for duty 97 and about 40 native levies. Not much of an army for you.
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Posts : 10621 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 66 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Wouldn’t it be fantastic to fire off a few rounds Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:57 pm
Hi
Wouldnt it be fantastic to fire off a few rounds ?. wonder if the DIEHARD"S have ever had a volley fire session?. I know the bullets are expensive, so i doubt they would have done so. This could be one for our own Billy Blanco, wonder if he"s had the good fortune to have loosed off a few rounds....
cheers 90th.
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Posts : 4310 Join date : 2008-11-01 Age : 63 Location : KENT
Subject: Re: Wouldn’t it be fantastic to fire off a few rounds Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:44 pm
90th Neil Aspinshaw the man to talk to on Martini Henry. I think he knows just about everything one needs to know about this rifle. I do believe he as a collection of Martini Henry’s, which he uses on a firing range.
P.S I think he also makes his own ammunition.
He is a regular on the RDVC.
littlehand
Posts : 7077 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 54 Location : Down South.
Subject: Re: Wouldn’t it be fantastic to fire off a few rounds Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:23 pm
90th/ Pete. I have been looking up Neil Aspinshaw. And came across this site. It shows his collection of Martini Henry Rifles. Impressive or what. The one at the bottom has the cover to prevent burns when the rifle gets hot. I wonder if they are all working rifles.
Posts : 10621 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 66 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: martini-henry Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:29 am
hi pete,
I am a regular on the RDVC site, you are right, Neil knows more about the MH than those living or dead. Including those who were in the zulu war and other conflicts were it was used !!!!!.
cheers 90th.
littlehand
Posts : 7077 Join date : 2009-04-24 Age : 54 Location : Down South.
Subject: Re: Wouldn’t it be fantastic to fire off a few rounds Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:30 am
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