Martini–Henry

It was the cartridge.

However, due to an uprising in India, where they were using Martini Henrys with 577 450s, the Crown banned all .45 caliber bullets.

So that just killed the cartridge.

There was a small maker named Joseph Lang who took the 450 nitro case, three and a quarter inches long, and necked it up to 470.

But it's like there's other things that have been done for specific applications that are probably more interesting.

And it's like it's kind of the best way I could describe it is it's just sort of like it's like having weird nostalgia for, I don't know, a Martini Henry or I don't know.

Anyone who

owns an SKS willingly.

Um, now a trigger that is bad.

Um, the, the other handgun I threw in chat and, uh, Is that a Martini Henry? In theory, it is.

I'm fairly positive it is a full blown Kyber Pass.

Yeah, that's a Kyber Pass copy.

colonial official in southern Africa.

A liberal supply of Gatling guns, magazine and Martini-Henry rifles and bayonets, and a good field battery with proper men to handle the same effectively,

That was the solution to the Ndebele problem.

I do not think I am naturally of a cruel disposition, but I must confess that it would offer me lasting satisfaction if I could see the Matabele cut down by our rifles and machine-guns like a cornfield by a reaping machine, and I would not spare a single one if I could have my way.

this rant would become an historical ripple through his descendants and others in the region through the next century fortunately for all present then shepard did not have such tools for his grim harvest but rudd was playing a different game after ten more days of backgammon and cards lomangulo eventually deigned to meet rudd who begged for a mining commission lo and behold lomangulo agreed and sent rudd to meet with his indunas to negotiate the finer details Then at noon on October 30, 1888, Lobengula sent for his senior and dooner, Loche, who joined Matabele Thompson and a visiting English missionary, Charles Helm, acting as interpreter.

Rudd, Thompson and Maguire were to deliver an armed steamer on the Zambezi River, as well as 1,000 Martini-Henry rifles, 100,000 rounds of ammunition and the payment of 100 pounds a month to Lobengula.

In exchange, the Ndebele king would grant them the rights over all minerals in his land, which was defined as Matabele land, Mashona land, and all adjacent territories.

Logically, this meant all other concession seekers were excluded.

I mean, even the Martini itself is a very good case for it being done at the Hotel Martinez in San Francisco.

There's a very good case for it being named after the Martini-Henry rifle.

There's a very good case for it being named after a town called Martinez somewhere in Mexico during the Mexican Civil War.

All of these are theoretically possible and there is no way of telling them apart.