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Content
Page 1 Committee of Management
1 2016 Shoot Calendar
1-2 President’s Report
2-3 The story of my William Evans SxS Part 2
3 Website access for Hammers Back
4 Etiquette, Courtesy and common decency
4-7 W Richards # 3016
7 Buying and selling of Firearms online
7 Members articles wanted!
8 Travelling with Firearms
9-15 Classifieds
16 A Vintager (Literally)
Shoot Calendar 2016
Saturday 30th April 2016
MCCCTC vs Vintagers at Kilmore F&GA
The “Greenvale Cup”
Sunday 15th May 2016
Western Port F&GA (an invitation to the late
Mark Brenton side-by side Memorial shoot) –
Not Vintagers event; Black Powder most
welcome
Sunday 12th June 2016
Frankston Australian Clay Target Club
Sunday 21st August 2016
Melbourne Gun Club
Sunday 9th October 2016
Nagambie Rifle Club
Sunday 20th November 2016
Melbourne Gun Club – Vintage Cup
Monday 28th November 2016
Guild & Vintagers – Display Night (Theme TBA)
President’s Report
Welcome to our first newsletter for 2016!
Our maiden shoot was conducted on Sunday
the 21st February at the Melbourne Gun Club
and attracted 74 nominations for the 50
target event which was complimented by
warm and sunny conditions, perfect in fact.
Our club was regrettably unsuccessful in
receiving a State grant for a defibrillator and
we accept the reason given that we did not
conform with the criteria, however, as it
considered to be an item of fundamental
importance to have one at each of our
shoots, we have purchased one,, including a
first aid kit (total cost $2559.95). Greg
Menzies, our Treasurer, has the necessary
experience/training with this machine, and
has agreed to be the custodian/operator. Is
there anyone else out there with the
appropriate training who we can record as a
back-up operator?
Angela Kloppenborg, who was the 2015
Vintage Cup Ladies High Gun Champion, has
written a follow-up article in relation to her
beloved William Evans SLE of 1903. (Refer
to Hammers Back issue number 49 of
September 2013, pages 4 and 5). This
article is of particular interest for all
members who are in search of a “missing”
pair.
The 2016 duck season has been announced
but regrettably the Game Act Regulations
have not been amended to permit both 10
bore and 8 bore black powder guns for
waterfowl harvesting. We can only keep on
trying!!!!.
Committee of Management
2015/2016 Patron: Russell Wilkin - London
President: Peter J Smith 0428 332 781
V. President: Max Lee 0419 377 558
Secretary: Judith Kent 0408 619 215
Treasurer: Greg Menzies 0425 705 677
Committee Members: John Rowe 0488 757 711
Clive Haug 0407 070 845
Rod Pratt 0418 103 811
Facsimile: 61 (0)3 9572 0069
Email: [email protected]
Mailing Address: The Secretary PO Box 269
Carnegie Vic 3163
Australia
Website: www.vintagers.org.au
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The story of my William Evans
Side by Side .Part 2 By Angela Kloppenborg
As many of you will recall from an article I
wrote last year, and from seeing me around
the Vintagers,I am the very proud owner of
a particularly lovely William Evans SxS that
is the number 2 of a pair .
You will also recall that I had been fortunate
enough to have the owner of the number 1
gun track me down (well the gun at least!)
after an exhaustive search of the Antipodes.
This resulted in an offer that I rejected (I
totally messed up the exchange rate and
diddled myself!!) as I am not ready to give
up “Billy “just yet!
We formed an online friendship (I don’t
know what all the fuss about these online
relationships is!) and continued to
periodically chat about our shared love.
Stuart (that’s his name) was very keen to
meet us if we were ever in his neck of the
woods.
As luck would have it we were heading to
the UK in September 2015 and when I
contacted him he was delighted that we
could make the journey to his hometown of
Belfast to meet himself and of course his
family and, THE GUN!
Now you may (or may not) recall that I had
mentioned that Stuart received his William
Evans for his 30th birthday from his father
“who had since passed away “
So you can imagine my surprise when after
we had made contact and arranged an
evening to visit his home, he mentioned
that his Father was also very excited
to meet us!!!
Well, me being me, of course I started
laughing and had to tell him (much to
Chris’s horror) that the whole of Australia
thinks his father is dead!
He thankfully thought this hysterical to (no
wonder we get on so well) and couldn’t wait
to tell his dear old dad!
Chris and I arrived at his lovely farm style
home (thankfully by Taxi) and were
welcomed as if we were long lost friends.
Stuarts gorgeous wife, Catherine welcomed
us into her vast Aga warmed kitchen and
fed us the most delicious meal with the best
salad I had seen on the trip (it was the only
salad!! but that’s another story!)
Angela, Stuart and the gun
Now before you form the vision of Catherine
as a lovely little rolly polly Irish lass, let me
set you straight! This Irish lass was a vision.
A tall slim, incredibly beautiful mother to 3
gorgeous children with another on the way,
and ….. she is a dentist!! Talk about busy!
Then of course I had to face Stuart’s dad,
Bill, and “fess” up to telling anyone who
would listen that the poor retch had died
and that was why I couldn’t buy Stuarts
gun!! Well its true what they say, we have
the same sense of humour as the Irish and
he thought this was extremely funny, so all
was forgiven.
We had one of the best night’s we have ever
had, with this fantastic and amazingly
interesting man. Bill was a merchant banker
that had lived all over East Africa all of his
working life and still consults on a regular
basis. He regaled us with stories all night,
which turned out to be a real treat as
apparently he is usually very quiet and
reserved!! (must be the only quiet Irishman
in captivity! and I suppose as he was risen
from the dead he was pretty happy to tell
all!).
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We were fascinated to hear about life during
the bombings and about the wonderful
experiences Stuart had whilst in Belfast at
boarding school and the trips he made to
see his parents during school holidays.
Then the moment I had been waiting for
arrived! Stuart brought his Number 1 gun
out to meet me! It was a strange feeling as
it really did look like mine which was
amazing as both had been extensively
refurbished.
Angela with the gun
The only real difference was his had 28 inch
barrels and of course mine has the
traditional 30 inch.
There much oohing and ahhing and lots of
photos, me with the gun, me with Stuart
and the gun, me with Bill and the gun (you
get the idea!).
Stuart uses the gun exclusively for live bird
hunting and enjoys “rough” shooting most
weekends in the season and is a member of
a syndicate that takes 4 shoot days a year,
mostly pheasant.
At the end of each season the gun is
delivered to the gunsmith to be fully
serviced and the wood checked for dings. As
a result it looked in pristine condition when I
saw it, as the season was about to start a
week later!
This was a bone of serious contention
between Chris and I and don’t worry I was
just as upset as he was that we were not
able to stay for the opening as I had to get
back for a wedding! (Yes, it was that
important!)
As I said earlier it was a blessing that we
had come by taxi as it turned out to be quite
a big night, we would still be talking if we
didn’t have the return plane ticket booked.
It is a strange and wonderful bond we now
have.
The top lever of the William Evans
We have an understanding that he will be
the only person I offer “Billy” to and as such
there is no need for him to worry about
what will ever become of it .Chris and I
both came away with the feeling of all that
as being very secondary really, it was just
wonderful to meet such a beautiful family.
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Etiquette, courtesy, and common
decency By Lionel Swrit
There being a dearth of social news
contributions yet again, it may be opportune
to consider some ‘social niceties’ instead. In
particular considering other squads when
making our way around a shoot from station
to station.
Because of the vagaries of both traps and
shooters, it frequently happens that one
squad will catch up with the one in front.
Sometimes the following squad, rather than
taking the opportunity to observe the
targets and shooting methods more closely,
instead takes the opportunity to discuss
irrelevant, mundane, and sometimes coarse
(listen to me talking!) topics at unbelievable
volumes of sound.
(The volume has been in some instances
uncharitably likened to that grand Australian
Standard of Extreme Sound: i.e. “two
skeletons making love on a tin roof using a
jam tin for a condom”.)
While most members practice etiquette
aplenty in their own squad by not speaking
while a member is actually in the stand, in a
few unfortunate cases this etiquette deserts
them, or is considered unnecessary, when
they catch up with the squad in front. It
seems the “U-Jack” principle is alive and
well!
I should stress that this occurs in only a
minority of squads, and I admit that since
our beloved Vintagers shoots are non-
competitive, and so this may seem
inappropriately harsh. (Of course
conversation, mild abuse, and laughter is
permitted and expected among any group
while a shooter is not actually in the stand,
and this should also be the case with
adjacent squads.
Incidentally, as many Vintagers are also
members of Field and Game (which is
exceedingly competitive despite its original
origins, aims, and professed purposes) the
behaviour referred to does matter there for
more than courtesy, as it can cause lost
targets.
But perhaps I am being obtuse, and perhaps
that is the purpose of the unseemly
clamour? And perhaps, when it occurs at
Vintagers shoots it is merely practice for F &
G ‘gamesmanship’?
Incredibly, when I have occasionally
apologised to some offending squad from
behind thus: “I hope our shooting didn’t
interfere with your conference” I have been
treated as though I have been the
transgressor!
Worse, I have even been hurtfully accused
of sarcasm! Indeed I was once subjected to
that tired old cliché ‘sarcasm is the lowest
form of wit’. (To which I replied, as I have
since my high school days, with: “sarcasm is
not a form of wit, in my family it is a way of
life”.)
Good morrow to all til our next merry
meeting,
W. Richards # 3016: “… a riddle
wrapped in a mystery inside an
enigma…”
By Robert Geddes
It’s a well-trodden path and a well-worn line
for me by now; this time into one of the
more renowned of greater Melbourne’s gun
shops: “do you have any old, weird,
wonderful stuff? Damascus barrels,
hammers, that sort of thing?” Two guns
were duly produced off the racks; one a
nice, but over-refinished sidelock ejector;
the other a little battered, mis-identified,
but oh-so-beautifully-engraved and un-
messed-with Jones underlever hammer gun,
but with a steep price. I gently asked if
there was room to move on that price, and
was quietly told that an offer of rather less
than half the labelled price could secure it.
A week or two later I went back with a neat
round figure in folding stuff which was about
40% of the asking price, and thanks to
online permits to acquire, walked out a
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short time later with what’s proven to be an
enigmatic – but delightful – old gun.
Now, it is a 12g centrefire cartridge shotgun
by W Richards – not Westley of Birmingham
and London, and not the spurious Belgian
name borne by perhaps thousands of cheap
guns dumped into North America – but
apparently William, of Old Hall Street,
Liverpool.
However I’m fairly sure that’s not how it
started life. The pistol grip with its
beautifully engraved steel cap, the long top
tang, and heavy butt and thick, heavy rear
of the trigger guard are more suggestive of
a rifle than a gun. The hammers look too
small for the locks, and there is a blank strip
between the engraving on the lockplates
and the edges of the hammers, suggestive
of originally much larger hammers. And
that engraving!: a full coverage of relief
acanthus scroll on the peninsula locks and
action; anything that wasn’t acanthus scroll
has been removed from just about all of the
metal, leaving shallow relief acanthus all over
the gun. The back-action locks, by the way, are rebounding, and bear ______’s name
inside them; the firing pins are also sprung.
Rebounding locks perhaps make the gun
post-date Stanton’s 1867 patent; but then,
the work could have been carried out at
another time…
The serial number – 3061 – appears no
fewer than 6 times – on each lockplate, the
trigger guard, the trigger guard tang, the
underlever, and the heel of the steel butt
plate – yet nowhere on the barrels; the
engraving on the exposed barrel lump also
seems more worn, and to be a mismatch, to
the rest of the gun. Oddly, “193” appears on
the action flats.
The proof marks on the barrels are typical
London proofs for the period 1855-1875;
but curiously, there is a lone Belgian mark
for provisional black powder proof for
breech-loading guns on the barrel flats. It
bears some very old-fashioned touches, like
the keyed forend and steel butt plate. The
damascus-patterned top rib is engraved
partially in a stylised script, partly in block
letters: “W Richards 51 [fifty-one]
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Old Hall St, LIVERPOOL”; but in a clue that
all is not as it seems, each of the barrel flats
are stamped “61 [yes, sixty-one, that’s not
a typo; they’d evidently moved a few doors
since the rib was engraved…] OLD HALL ST”.
My reference – Brown’s British Gunmakers
Vol. II – does not list that address, and the
serial number falls well outside the listed
range Brown has listed for the maker.
The barrels, bearing what I’m told is a two-
iron crolle pattern, have chambers about 2
5/8” deep, with an abrupt step down into
the bore proper rather than forcing cones,
and no chokes – quite a primitive way of
setting up a breech loading shotgun bore;
there is also quite a uniform taper to the
exterior walls. The bores, proofed at 13
(.710”- .728”) prior to the introduction of
fractional sizes, are presently .730” and
.733”, so possibly not much larger than
original, but with chamber and barrel walls
still thick enough to inspire confidence with
lighter, 2 ½” black powder loads. Probably
the gun (or at least the barrels) predates
the establishment of choke boring by
Greener through 1874-75
That most beguiling of hammer gun shapes,
the shell fences, may not be original to the
gun as some fine lines and evidence of some
brazing indicates; perhaps they were once
the typically much shallower pinfire fences.
The standing breech has a circular line in
the metal, as if a plug has been fitted,
perhaps during a conversion.
I’ve been able to glean from several sources
that c1853-54, the firm was at 53 Old Hall
Street; from 1857 at 51 Old Hall st; from
1861 census records W Richards was at 61
Old Hall st; from 1878 at 27 Old Hall st; also
a gun marked 63 Old Hall st exists.
During the Gold rush around 1853-54,
members of the family opened a store in
Melbourne.
From a Ballarat collector:
William Richards is recorded in
English Gunmakers by Bailey
and Nie as working at 51 Oldhall
St Liverpool in 1857 and Henry
Richards at the same address
from 1858-1870. Actually
William was operating earlier
than 1857 as the advert from a
Liverpool paper of 1853
testifies. This newspaper was
found as a wall paper in a
Portland cottage built in 1854.
There was a W Richards
operating in Melbourne and I
believe was the same man and
he was killed in a workshop
explosion which was around
Market / Collins Streets. Seeing
he supplied a lot of immigrants
to Australia with firearms, he
heard the stories and
succumbed himself
At this stage, my educated guess is that the
gun was made as a pinfire double rifle
around 1865-70; very quickly though, it was
rendered obsolete by centrefire. Prior to
1875 – and possibly before even having
been sold (a pinfire may have been un-
sellable within a year or two of building) –
the makers reworked it into a centrefire
shotgun, brazing on the shell fences, fitting
the necessarily smaller centrefire hammers,
and using an earlier set of barrels from
another, earlier, perhaps even muzzle-
loading gun, the unfinished tubes of which
may have been sourced from Belgium; the
1857-61 rib address from 51 Old Hall st was
left extant, and the flats stamped with the
makers’ later 61 Old Hall st address when it
was reworked…
I have enjoyed trying to find answers to the
questions this gun poses; but more
importantly, the old Richards seems to
handle and fit me well enough. After taking
to my ‘smith – who delights in these sort of
guns – to tighten and perform some
preventative maintenance for some minor
issues after 150 years of solid use, the old
Richards has scratched my itch for a nice
representative of Jones’ underlever patent
with some style.
Images:
1. Overall;
2. The action, showing relief acanthus
scroll on the body and peninsula back
action locks; notice the engraving
stops short of the edges of the
hammers, likely replacements for
larger pinfire hammers;
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3. A beautifully engraved grip cap;
4. The serial number and “nib” on the
heel of the butt plate;
5. Barrel address
Buying and selling of Firearms
online
Recently there has been an increase in the
number of posts on Gumtree, eBay, online
forums and industry sites attempting to sell
firearms.
Firearm owners should be aware that there
are strict prohibitions and conditions on the
advertisement of firearms for sale.
Unless the advertisement of a firearm is
placed in a magazine published by an
approved club or a commercially published
firearms or sport shooting magazine, only
licensed firearms dealers are permitted to
advertise firearms for sale. All
advertisements are to include the Firearms
Serial number and the Firearms Licensed
Dealers’ number.
Under no circumstances shall a firearm
owner sell a firearm without the direct
involvement of a licensed firearm dealer.
Legislation relating to advertising of firearms
can be found in Section 101 of the Firearms
Act 1996.
Members articles wanted!
Please forward articles you wish to share
with members. They can be about
reloading, a firearm, hunting, or anything
else you feel would interest the members.
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Friday 4 March 1938
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Cobaw Sporting
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Where you have fun with a shotgun !!
Partridge Shooting in Victoria
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Sporting Clays
Our Tower and Flush Shoot at Cobaw is great fun and challenging for even the experienced gun.
Shoot the Cobaw Rabbit and Grouse Butts for a great afternoon ! Corporate days with full catering and novice guns are welcome.
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We will guide you on some of the iconic Grouse Moors and Shooting Estates in North Yorkshire.
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Firearm Sales and Repairs
Wayne Clapham is a supporter of the Vintagers,
please support Wayne.
Please support the industry
who support the Vintagers
Firearms , Accessories and more
Boronia Firearms is a great supporter and huge
sponsor of the Vintagers since the club’s
inception.
Gunsmith
Looking for a Gunsmith who has extensive
experience with double guns and rifles, give
Rolf a call and tell him Peter Smith referred you
to him.
Rolf is in the Lilydale area so give him a call, he
is very reasonable with pricing.
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Vintagers Mugs for sale
Good for a coffee break!
$10 each
Vintagers Pens for sale
$7.50 each or 2 for $10
Vintagers cloth patches for sale
$5 each
Vintagers Key Rings for sale
The Vintagers keyrings are made in the USA
and we have plenty in stock.
Cost: $12 each
Vintagers Ties for sale
The Vintagers ties are 100% pure silk.
Colours: Blue with gold hammers.
Yellow with black hammers
Navy, Burgundy and British Racing
Green with gold hammers.
Cost: $50 each
(Check the colours on the website
www.vintagers.org.au)
Vintagers Silver and Gold Pins
Stock will be available shortly. They can be
used as a hat pin, tie pin or a lapel pin.
Silver - $35.00
Gold - $50.00
Please support the businesses who
support the Vintagers
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Gun fitting service, try gun
Caustic & nitre blue
Stock alterations
Rib repairs and relaying
Trigger adjustments
Spring making
Heat treatment
Parts made
Engraving
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Australian Arms Auctions Pty Ltd
Presents Auction No. 46
We are pleased to advise the May 2016
Auction to be held at 10.00am on Sunday
May 1st 2016
Venue: Eley Park Community Centre
87 Eley Road, Blackburn South, Victoria
Melways Ref: 61-H5
Viewing times are from 12.00 noon on
Saturday 30th April and 8.00am to 10.00pm
on Sunday 1st May.
Catalogues will be available in early April,
both as hard copy (by subscription) and on
line (free) at
www.australianarmsauctions.com .
We are very fortunate to have an offering of
the finest firearms from the Doug Mills
Collection.
Doug is well known worldwide for his
collection of early Flintlock firearms
particularly by both John and Joseph
MANTON.
The normal offering of guns of interest to
Vintagers, both shotguns and rifles of all
descriptions will be on offer to the “highest
bidder”.
Examples of the British makers art, will be
on offer in both side locks and box locks
both ejector and extractor’s, as well as an
extensive offering of Centre Fire and Rim
Fire rifles, catering for all tastes.
Broken or non matching Hammers?
If you have a hammer gun with a broken or
miss-matched hammer, or missing
hammers, then I have for sale an extensive
collection of matched pairs, and singles,
some unused, that I acquired during my
high school years between 1959 to 1963,
from various Tasmanian based gunsmiths
and dealers.
In addition, I have an extensive selection of
forend irons, some complete with wood,
which I gathered over the same period.
These items have never been offered for
sale before, and in fact I had completely
forgotten about them for over 25 years until
recently.
Contact Peter on 0428 332 781 if you are at
all interested.
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Contact Bill Hailes on 0411342826
ozgunsales.com. Here you can buy & sell
and Auction new or used firearms &
shooting related accessories right from your
home or office chair.
Vintagers can submit one only
advertisement free. Just call Bill and let him
know you are a Member.
You can list your shotgun, centrefire rifle,
rimfire rifle, lever action firearm, Military
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Hammers Back The official Newsletter of
The Vintagers (Australian Chapter)
Issue No. 59 – March 2016
Vintagers (Order of Edwardian Gunners (Inc.) No. A003954D
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