Loading for the Dutch Beaumont service rifle....

Mornin', All. tac here in sunny yUK. One or two of you may know that in addition to shooting my socks off here in yUK and over in Oregon, I'm also the president of a small association of like-minded shooters in the Republic of Ireland [RoI] - the Vintage and Classic Rifle Association of Ireland [www.vcrai.com].

We welcome shooters of military arms of all periods and types, even though, the RoI having the rather odd laws it does, based, strangely enough almost 100% on Canadian gun laws, there are less than FIVE shooters in the whole country who are permitted to shoot live-firing black powder small arms.

However, we have recently been joined by a gentleman from near Maastricht in The Netherlands, and he shoots a nice Maastricht-made Beaumont rilfe. So if any of you are interested in just how he gets...