Quote Originally Posted by edbear2 View Post
Yep, and stall holders had a gizmo boltedt to the stalls to speed load the magazines I recall, plus besides the knock down little figures in boxes to get points for (carp) prizes, there were ping pong balls on waterjets inside steel wire mesh bowl shaped bases to shoot at, or bottles with fivers taped on held by a piece of string to try and cut (not much chance with round shot, but a diablo fired backwards would work in a break barrel if the string was frayed or against a pipe!

ATB, Ed
That's interesting, I've never seen a speed loader for the magazines. I only remember stall holders having the shot in a pouch that they put their hand in with an empty magazine & a little while later out came their hand with a loaded magazine. One stallholder had two leather buss conductor style money pouch/bags. One was for the takings, the other full of shot. Even in those days he was wary of people detaching the magazines & making off with them.
The targets were paper bullseye ones for those that wanted a souvenir or falling metal fingers, circles or ducks, a few clay pipes & spinners too. For the more adventurous there was a row of self re setting falling ducks. Somehow at a tender age I was hitting the ducks very consistently & must have impressed him. They didnt give prizes but when I finished shooting he took the rifle from me & popped in a full magazine free if charge. I was chuffed, half went on the ducks the ithe half on a paper target which I kept for years.