It’s a stick up
Most people who have been shooting for a reasonable length of time will probably have heard of an air cane. For those who don’t know what I am talking about, an air cane was a niche type of pre-charged pneumatic airgun that outwardly resembled a walking stick.
Like the airguns we looked at last month, they were expensive in comparison to simple powder guns of the day but they were definitely affordable, even by the lower middle classes. They were a peculiarly English item, the heyday of which was between 1850 and the start of World
