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Did any of the Arquebusiers go on their walkabout to other countries forming a transfer of technology or did they just have all the technology they could stand?

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

Article forwarded by FAB500 on Maisonnial from "la revue Armes de chasse" in 2012: (jpgbox limiting the size of up loads put a crimp ON readability. I may have to switch to IMHGUR):

I don't know Raimey. But I will ask FAB500. French gunmakers did not speak foreign languages as a rule. But French was spoke in Liege.

I really can’t thank everyone enough for all this information! Lots to digest.

Some very beautiful guns in that article.

Believe it or not, but we are all learning as we go on this French maker data mining effort.....

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

The frustrating part of this research is this post from Raimey a couple of years ago which is now dead as a "link"
https://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=479885

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Probably the same double?

A. Maisonnial - Royal Super Steel - Acier Superieur Triple Epreuve - Special Pour Pyroxylee

So PYRO would denote Pyroxylee?

Cheers,

Raimey
rse

The difference with the French, compared to the other major European gun making countries, is that they never seriously attempted to market their products outside of France. British, Belgian, German, Italian, Spanish . . . at different times, a lot of those shotguns have been readily available here in the States. French shotguns, in contrast, have never represented more than a tiny slice of the US market.

Larry, it’s so true. French guns are hard to find in the US. But, after I bought my Charles Galand many years ago, I really just love the style. I am very glad I was able to pickup another. I am Looking forward to shooting it this weekend!

And Argo44, I would say the issue lies with the Natura-Buy website where it is most difficult to lift the images. Otherwise, I more than likely would have stored them?

Serbus,

Raimey
rse

If you have a Mac, bring up the image. Hit Command-Shift-4...and you can then super copy the part of the image you want. I do it all the time. Works for Text, photos, etc. Quality is not the greatest but it works. There are some other commands which allow you to copy the whole screen etc. But I choose the old simple Mac command which Microsoft tried to copy with "snip."