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Roger is correct in the make-up of the plumb pudding igniters Bruce., These 'rifles' were not done on the hoof so to speak but converted to a set design standard with a shortened butt stock bolt and threaded into the chamber oif the tube. We had one complete mortar and a second 'rifle' at Warminster and while I didn't take much notice of them, they were clearly reasonably/obviously well thought out, done to a set pattern and worked.
Apparently, the weapon collection didn't have a plumb pudding bomb thinggy intil they were clearing away some of the area to ascertain the viability of building of the third London Airport at Maplin Sands. (nope....... it's still not even in the design stage............) There a huge cache of puddings in reasonably good condition was unearthed so we got a couple. I used to wonder how they projected in their sort-of flight path although 'flight path' and 'accuracy' might be taking such words to extreme. They were probably as aerodynamic as a piano
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The barrel stub on the relic example earlier is in fact the chamber end of a long rifle barrel. Presumably, firing such an odd shaped blank cartridge the chambers would have had to be sleeved or blocked with an insert & re-cut?
Cheers Unprofor1994. Yes, that's right. I may have mis-credited it to The Times previously, but was speaking from (my legendarily scatterbrained) memory!
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Didn't exactly hide in the back corridors of Whitehall, did he?
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There is a gun auction coming up in the UK n a couple of weeks time.
One of the listed items (no picture) is as follows :
Lot No. 766 A SMLE No.4 MKI bolted, barrelled and action short barrel (for bench pistol shooting)
I'm sure its a strange beast - wonder what the butt looks like
Mine are not the best, but they are not too bad. I can think of lots of Enfields I'd rather have but instead of constantly striving for more, sometimes it's good to be satisfied with what one has...
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