W. W. Greener Martini TARGET RIFLESTHE W. W. GREENER MARTINI TARGET RIFLES. Queen Alexandras Cup competition. Plus Greeners Fencing Musket. History. Airsoft originated from Japan in the early 1970s. The name SoftAir referred to the green gas used as a propellant. Originally designed for target shooting. Download Small Bore Target Rifles Sale Uk' title='Download Small Bore Target Rifles Sale Uk' />Rifles The Devizes Gunsmith Gunshop RWS Engineering, Devizes, Wiltshire, England. Gunsmith and Gunshop. Sales, Servicing, Renovation. Let me say from the outset that Benellis Super Sport is not a new shotgun hot of the production line, in fact its been around for a good two years or so. Here you will find over 100,000 items of militaria for sale online. Probably the most significant competition for. Birmingham Small Arms Companys. Martini Target Rifles, W. W. Greener built a reputation second to none. Martini Henry and Martini MetfordEnfield service. Download Small Bore Target Rifles Sale Uk' title='Download Small Bore Target Rifles Sale Uk' />He often utilised actions. BSA full bore and small frame Cadet. He also led the field with his own miniature. Few gunmakers could produce a truly. Download Small Bore Target Rifles Sale Uk' title='Download Small Bore Target Rifles Sale Uk' />The catalogue, from which replications are here. Greeners newly published. Sharpshooting for War and Defence of which. October 1. 91. 4. It appears that, with war. W. W. had updated and renamed his earlier editions, first published. Sharpshooting for Sport and War. It. was apparent that sport shooting was no longer a priority other than for putting. We therefore believe the catalogue to be just prior to. Great War. The endorsement above right by. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creator of that famous fictional detective pair. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, is perhaps an indication of early sponsorship. William Greener produced a comprehensive range. Rook and Rabbit particularly, both in full. The target rifle range comprised of the famous Miniature. Club and Sharpshooters Club rifles, plus Ladies and de luxe. For many years, he also marketed the full bore. Rim fire. He supplied, as did the well known gunmakers. C. G. Bonehill, converted Martini service rifles to the Society. Miniature Rifle Clubs and the National Rifle Association. His most. prestigious models of these, often offered as prize rifles in major competition. Kings Cup Winner and Queens Cup Winner. Greener additionally built up fine quality models. BSA Martini Cadet rifles, usually of. RF,. 2. 97. 2. 30 and even. Lee Enfield Magazine Service. Short. and Long. Top of the range. Martinis were built, using. TARGET RIFLES. 2. RF The Miniature Ammunition. Manufacturing Co. Pall Mall, Olympic Model Serial No. V. These rifles. were made for the M. A. M. Co., by W. W. Greener and are listed in E. H. Robinsons. book Rifle Carton. Middle. 2. 2RF Queens Cup. Winner serial no. Greener after A. G. Banks became. the first winner of the Queen Alexandra Cup with a similar rifle in. The. QA was then an individual competition, but is today for a County. Bottom. 2. 2RF W. W. Greener target. BSA target fore sight and Parker Hale. A rear sight. The barrel is detachable by means of a lever on the l. HS. for ease of cleaning and portability. The cost of this rifle new was around. Photo courtesy. of L. King. One of Greeners most significant near successes. Olympic winning record all but achieved by a client with. Cadet calibre rifle. In an extraordinary chain of. A visit. to the superb Museum of the National Rifle Association, at the famous Bisley. Camp and Ranges in Surrey, will provide the opportunity to see in the flesh. The first is the. Wimbledon for the first meeting of the N. R. A. in 1. 86. 0 when Queen Victoria opened the meeting by firing, with a lanyard. Whitworth rifle set up on a stand. The bulls eye strike of the bullet on. The second, and subject of the tale, is a. Olympic games by Mr. Philip Plater with his Greener. Martini Sharpshooter Club rifle. An image of the targets is shown below alongside a report on the matter. Photo. by courtesy of the. N. R. A. Musuem. The Plater Incident. Olympic history is full of hard luck stories, but few can. British marksman Philip Plater in the individual. The conditions of the competition permitted twelve entries. George Barnes, the nominee of. Twenty Two Club, went astray, Philip Plater was named as the twelfth British. Shortly afterwards, the entry form for George Barnes arrived. U. S. A. had been granted an extension to the closing date for entries. Great Britain and Barnes entry was duly accepted. This meant, of course, that Britain had 1. When the competition got underway, the British team officials. British marksmen who had shot in the competition. Thinking that only eleven men had already fired, Plater was called on although. Plater ran to the firing point and in varying light, a gusty wind. In his 4. 0 rounds from 5. Plater fell only five points. His total of 3. 91 points was a new World Record and, in the initial results. National Rifle Association, Philip Plater was shown as. Olympic Champion. It then transpired that the British team officials had made. Plater shot, the permitted number of twelve. British marksmen had already taken part. It took some days to decide whether. Plater or that of Barnes should be excised from the records and. George Barnes was declared the official British entrant. In October. Philip Plater was presented with a special gold medal and a record diploma. British Olympic Council, but his amazing feat of marksmanship remains. Olympic records. Those intrepid few shooting. Cadet rifles in the Service. Classic Classes in the Leagues and at the Imperial and Trafalgar. Historic Arms Meetings will appreciate the achievement illustrated above. It must not be forgotten that the propellants and primer. Twentieth Century. Such diagrams. would though, even now, be difficult to emulate at these ranges. Some of you. have attained a significant mastery of their. If anyone has an equivalent. The. excellent appearance of Greeners Queens Cup Winner rifle belies the fact that it was offered at less than two thirds of the price of the Kings Cup model. To this day a rare and valuable find, the Queens Cup rifle was proudly presented as being capable of winning that coveted prize as indeed had been done by A. G. Banks, a most experienced and venerated Service Rifle shot, author of several important books on rifle shooting and, latterly in his army career, a Lieutenant Colonel. See Recommended. Reading. Right. the action RH side engraved with a representation of the Queens Cup and the wording in scroll form. Greeners. own folding rear aperture sight is fitted to the wrist. This sight was, of its period, one of the most aesthetically. Below The Bronze medal for the. Queens Cup competition First Stage Images courtesy of Bryan Tye. A. close up of the S7. Greeners Patent Orthoptic series sight on the Queens Cup rifle is shown left, alongside Greeners more economical S7. Greener Mk. II Orthoptic alternative version on which the pressed base mount plate ratherbelies the quality of the sight itself. The S7. 41 sold, in 1. S7. 44 could be obtained for barely over a third of that price at. The S7. 41 appears to have been available in more than one mark, with at least. An image. of this model is shown, below left, fitted to a. RF Miniature Club rifle. Below right is an equivalent Mark 1 sight advertised in the same. In. that catalogue, Greeners devoted much of a page to comment and instruction. The picture of one of these associated. S7. 44 model already illustrated on a rifle. The text read as follows. APERTURE or ORTHOPTIC SIGHTS. The modern aperture sight has to. The Greener Orthoptic sight can be fitted to all types of Martini and falling. Block action rifles and is that most generally used. Photo. by Trevor Jackson It consists of a movable disc carried, on a stem of. The functions of this spring are to prevent shake in any position and keep. Burns And Grove 2011 5Th Edition. The spring C is marked with. B carries the sight. This method. of marking is called the Micrometer system, and was first introduced by W.