![]() ![]() Then I moved on to an elderly Webley Senior. My first was a Milbro Gat which took an age to load for each single shot and fired at roughly the same velocity as I could spit. ![]() But really, I didn’t care about any of these things because I was fourteen years old and I had just managed to get my hands on my first replica air gun. In the UK there were IRA bombs in London, the Open University awarded its first degrees and the Cod War with Iceland turned out to be less exciting than I had hoped. When she wasn’t beating me up, my big sister was listening to stuff like Elton John’s Crocodile Rock and Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain and even some weird thing called The Dark Side of the Moon. In 1973 the Exorcist was terrifying movie audiences around the world (though my favourite movie of the year was Roger Moore’s first outing as James Bond in Live and Let Die). Which might lead you to suppose that it must be pretty good. The Marksman Repeater has been in production for almost sixty years now in one form or another. Many wonderful classic replicas are now out of production while others seem to go on and on despite not being terribly impressive. ![]()
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