In March of 1896, the Ndebele people revolted against the authority of the British South Africa Company to initiate what is known as the Second Matabele War, or First Chimurenga, one of many conflicts in the long embattled history of what is now Zimbabwe. Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia is a riveting and thoughtfully written account of this war by a man who experienced it firsthand - Frederick Courteney Selous.
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Sweet take down rifle.
ReplyDeleteFederick Courteney Selous, worth reading his Wikipedia entry. Friend of
Theodore Roosevelt.
45-120
ReplyDeletePictured are bottleneck cases. .45-120 are straight walled.
Deletehttps://gutenberg.org/ebooks/52132 Book for free
ReplyDelete"Book for free" isn't part of the link address should put it on a separate line.
DeleteThanks though, $22 at Amazon and local library network doesn't have it.
a space is always a terminator in url format, so a new line is not reqd
DeleteI think I have seen that rifle on the Westley Richards website, along with a lot of other beautiful rifles. Probably .425 Westley Richards. Steve_in_Ottawa
ReplyDeleteDetails of the above rifle:
Delete"Westley Richards & Co. .425 Magnum Express Bolt Action Magazine Rifle with Detachable Barrel #37798 completed 20th of October, 1911 for Capt. F.C. Selous, Esquire."