The writer, Lucian Cary, was a huge Pope partisan, but still the description of Pope the man is very interesting.
I have wondered just what it was about Pope's barrels that made them so accurate.
https://m.facebook.com/story.p...10446005&ref=m_notif

And a bit on Lucian Cary:
https://www.goodreads.com/auth.../6561839.Lucian_Cary

Never argue with a man who carries a compass and a micrometer in his pocket!

Great stuff from days gone by.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
The writer, Lucian Cary, was a huge Pope partisan, but still the description of Pope the man is very interesting.
I have wondered just what it was about Pope's barrels that made them so accurate.
https://m.facebook.com/story.p...10446005&ref=m_notif

And a bit on Lucian Cary:
https://www.goodreads.com/auth.../6561839.Lucian_Cary

Interesting article. Is part 2 going to be posted?

Good question, Johnny. This was posted on the American Single Shot Rifle Association Web site, and I have not seen a followup.

Johnny, here is Part Two.
https://m.facebook.com/story.p...d=429394277431323%A0

Interesting reads.
Thanks for posting the links.

Happy to. Somehow I had missed the fact that Pope was an MIT graduate, which might help explain some things.

It also gives one a hint about bicycles place in society when a MIT grad woks in a bicycle production facility.
MIT education likely gave him a different view on materials and production procedures.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Johnny, here is Part Two.
https://m.facebook.com/story.p...d=429394277431323%A0

Thanks for posting the second part. I had read some about him years ago.
From what I remember reading he was a controversial man.
I enjoy reading about these old gun cranks.

I have a biography of Harry Pope titled 'The Story of Pope's Barrels' by Ray M. Smith , printed by R&R Books, 3020 East Lake RD, Livonia, NY 14487.

It is a very good read. It also has a good number of photographs of Pope's shops, equipment, tooling, guns, targets etc. A lot of loading and shooting accessories Pope designed and built.

I have portraits of famous gunsmiths of the past hanging in my shop, Pope is one of them. He is wearing two sets of glasses running his lathe. He injured his eye in an accident while rust bluing.

Lucian Cary wrote some very good short stories about Pope using the name J.M.Pyne. The best one being 'The Secret of The Old Master'.

It seems Lucian Cary wove Harry Pope into his fiction, too. The 1979 Gun Digest reprinted a 1941 story from The Saturday Evening Post called 'Let The Gun Talk' in which he was conjured under another name.