Mr Cornwell, hope you are well. No pressing difficult question for you today. I just wondered as a target shooter myself, what’s your experience with firearms, you must have gone down the range some days while writing Sharpe to blast some smoke and shot with a Brown Bess?? P.S. when youre next in England drop me a line and I’ll drag you down my range to meet some very friendly Sharpe reading, black powder blowy-upy chaps, and we’ll see if you can do three shots a minute with a ‘Bess in any weather condition. :-) All the best – great respect Andrew