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    Westley Richards with three different locks

    Oct 22, 2020 3 minutes

    What do you do if the date is 1833 and you regularly rent a big grouse moor and shooting lodge at Strathgarve just north of Inverness? You have taken days to get there by coach as the railway is not in existence and the moor itself is quite remote.

    Do you take a trusted flintlock, or do you take a percussion gun but run the risk of not being able to buy percussion caps? If your name is Captain

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