Quote Originally Posted by Garvin View Post
Very good!

I think it was the clubs that came first and the LJ/BSA rifles must have both capitalised on the craze and fuelled it.

Interesting cuttings from newspapers at the time here, including several about how the air rifle business was booming on the back of the growth of clubs:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/670442/thread/1400963524

I suppose you have to wonder where the British army would have been without air rifle training, since success in WW1 partly came down to accurate individual shooting... plus a lot of other ordnance.
and we was paying Uncle Sam a premium price for the privalidge has well wasnt we long live big bussiness, god bless america I am beeing ironic by the way!