he rifle shown here was made by one of Vienna's finest gunmakers during Europe's Belle Epoch — probably in the 1880s — but many similar were made in England, intended for use in Africa or India. For that matter, many ended up in Africa and stayed there. I've walked into a few Afrikaner farmhouses and found some wonderful rifles hanging on the wall. The most memorable, in a remote corner of the Orange Free State (as it was then), was
