Bruce Highman Metal Mastery
of master gun-maker Bruce Highman, I wrote an obituary (Feb 2019 edition) in which I mentioned that he’d once made a to-scale miniature working model of a complex World War II b ch-loading twin-barrelled 4.7-inch naval artillery piece (turret gun) which fired .22 rim-fire cartridges. It was correct down to the smallest detail, including elevation and lateral pivoting, with all the adjustment wheels and crank-handles being operational. It took him five years to make (while he was living in Durban) and
