Sporting Gun

Charge of the ‘not quite’ brigade

Regular readers of this column will recall last month that I talked about Lefaucheux and his pinfire cartridge. I mentioned in the article that it was an adaptation of the Pauly system.

Pauly was another gunsmith who was just too far ahead of his time and let down by

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