![]() I had a CJ-7 Jeep in New Delhi at that time he had the hunting permits and we went out often in the Falls of those three years, hunting ducks, dove and quail in the brilliant yellow mustard fields of Uttar Pradesh on the Gangetic plain. Reilly, a 16ga possibly Army-Navy, one I'm not sure of and a 20ga. ![]() He had 5 doubles on his wall passed down by his father and grandfather, I believe they were: a 12ga Holland & Holland, a 12ga E.M. He was from an upper-class Indian family which had adopted British customs when it came to gun-sport (late 1880's on). (Monty) Palit, former chief of operations of the India Army (during the Indo-China War), Sandhurst in the 1930's, WWII Indian Army veteran, and noted military author. My landlord was Indian Army Major General D.K. I served at the American Embassy in India for three years in the late 1980's. ![]() SxS hammer-gun shotgun after thinking about purchasing an English double for 25 years. I recently bought an English hand-made EM Reilly, 12 ga. I am a Vietnam Vet, 2 tours, Special Forces, MACV-SOG and have spent some 25 years of the last 40 serving abroad for our country. Edit Note: The current New History of Reilly is on p.54 of this line the list of extant guns, dated is on p.44 - (the history is regularly updated and moved to the last page of the line) ![]()
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