"... oh boy ... can't say that. My mum once brought it up at lunch in scotland, casually, around I guess 1960. Well she might as well have dropped a brick! Dead silence all around.  

 I did have a hard cover book peppered with air rifle or bb pellets. Shonaid told me that she and the younger banting had set up an indoor ""rifle range"" in montreal in the late 50's. I met his r*********r twice. aaah well.  "