Sportarm Revives H.J. Hussey Guns
The catalog of revived British gunmakers is stocked with illustrious names, including Lancaster, Greener, Churchill, and Atkin Grant & Lang. Now H.J. Hussey has...
Doug Tate is an Editor at Large for Shooting Sportsmanwith more than 350 articles published in the past 30 years. A British native, he attended the College of Art & Industrial Design, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and has a keen eye for aesthetics, from a well-turned sentence to a well-filed gun action. He has been a longtime contributor to The Field, in the UK, and is the author of the books Birmingham Gunmakers and British Gun Engraving. He now lives in the Pacific Northwest.
The catalog of revived British gunmakers is stocked with illustrious names, including Lancaster, Greener, Churchill, and Atkin Grant & Lang. Now H.J. Hussey has...
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