Eddystone 1917 Mark

[Patrick Chadwick]

The borel looks scary. Muzzel is +1.

Dusty, you need to toughen up a little. Try some of my 200-350 year-old BP rifles, and you will learn the truth of the old saying “handsome is as handsome does”. That bore has plenty of substance, and I can only add to the chorus “shoot, clean, shoot, clean…”

However, a good photo of the muzzle crown would be interesting. Many ex-service rifles are unevenly worn at the muzzle - the main culprit being the good-old-English pull-through and its dubious descendant - the bore snake. In some (many?) cases an ever-so-slight recrowning - just enough to eliminate the one-sided wear from cleaning - will transform the grouping from “minute of barndoor” to something competitive.