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Topic Started: 6th September 2009 - 10:24 PM (224 Views)
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given the unpresidented popularity of the catty at the moment,what have you got/had? who 'cut their teeth' on a milbro? as you probably know ime a bit of a catty nut and have been known to make one or two. i can remember my first catty was a gift from an old neighbour called Fred Reid,it had been his sons ,it was a milbro lacking elastics my mum fitted it with kniker elastic! well it was worse than useless so it was consigned to the bottom of the toy box,wish i had it now,theyre worth £40.00 on a bad day!
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This is the one I made from brass, then added antler scales held on with brass rivets; crap photo though.

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I started with the exact same Milbro, originally my brother's and my mother was not too chuffed to learn I had taken an interest in it. I eventually refurbished it with new 1/4" eleastic and re-whipped the leather pouch on, I'm not sure what became of it after I progressed onto air rifles.

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milbro men! you know,ive tried as hard as i can to get milbro to release info on the originals but they just wont! by the way i got bells of hythe to admit thattheir claimed 'original milbro' is infact a forgery!
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I was that soldier boy as well.Did you not find that sometimes the elastic used to twist and the stone or whatever you were using used to smack you on the thumbnail ?
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Sep 7 2009, 05:58 PM
I was that soldier boy as well.Did you not find that sometimes the elastic used to twist and the stone or whatever you were using used to smack you on the thumbnail ?

oh yes! that thumb grip was a bad idea! i started holding them differently pretty fast,once i finally had a decent pair!
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i started holding them differently pretty fast,once i finally had a decent pair!


Fnar, fnar! Snigger! *giggle*
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Sep 6 2009, 10:38 PM
This is the one I made from brass, then added antler scales held on with brass rivets; crap photo though.

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How the hell do you melt the brass to make this ???? Or is it cut out of a sheet
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Sep 7 2009, 08:13 PM
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i started holding them differently pretty fast,once i finally had a decent pair!


Fnar, fnar! Snigger! *giggle*

very funny *rolleyes* :D
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a lot of 'blanks' are pressed but i recon that one looks like it was cut ! *cheers*
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