Playing to the Gallery. Dublin.

Playing to the Gallery:

Shooting Galleries

of
Dublin.

With the decline of duelling and the duelling pistol came the hybrid target pistol and the growth of target shooting. Two Dublin gunmakers were one step ahead of the market and offered shooting ranges for their clients during this transitional period.


Both William & John Rigby and Trulock & Son were advertising their shooting galleries in 1830 and 1832 respectively. See below.

William & John Rigby advertising their new sixty feet Shooting Gallery. 

                  William Trulock & Son advertising their "extensive" Shooting Gallery. 1832

                      In France as late as 1910 the famous Gastine-Renette's on the Champs Elysees
                      were offering a shooting school where "heavy duelling pistols" were shot. The
                      targets being white painted steel life size silhouettes of a man.**    

                ** Wings over the Marshes by Robert Erskine Ross. published 1948. Pages 90-93.

                          We are always interested in any information related to the above.

                                                      Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk