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    Needham self-cocker

    Jun 20, 2019 3 minutes

    I just love early hammer guns before they settled down to the conventional Jones underlever or top-lever with Purdey bolt. The progression from muzzle-loader to breech-loader was anything but straightforward and during this development a great many blind alleys were pursued. These blind alleys, little quirks of development, were the result of gunmakers attempting to create perfect breech-loaders. Each attempt was governed by one guiding principle – how to speed up the rate of fire.

    By 1860, the muzzle-loader was so

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