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The pandemic has affected the art world unevenly, hitting museums hard while allowing galleries to thrive. This past winter Paderewski Fine Art & The...
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 pandemic has affected the art world unevenly, hitting museums hard while allowing galleries to thrive. This past winter Paderewski Fine Art & The...
Longthorne Gunmakers is now building an over/under “boxlock.”
It’s been 150 years since an English side-by-side has been built with barrels machined from a single billet of steel.
Purdey’s has introduced a scaled-down 20-bore version “suitable for both driven and walked-up shooting.”
The Birth of The Boxlock Shotgun is a must for any scholar of fine shotguns.
The rumors were rife. Beretta had acquired Holland & Holland, the London firm famous for its fine guns and rifles.
Krieghoff, based in Ulm, Germany, has consistently unveiled a “Gun of the Year”—frequently featuring historic or geographic themes.
First introduced in the UK in 2019, the Legend de Luxe can be ordered through New England Custom Gun Service, Ltd., of Claremont, New Hampshire.
William & Son, the London gunmaker and luxury company, has gone into administration.
The Oxford Premium features a detachable trigger group, comes in 12 or 20 bore, and is intended for game shooting or sporting clays.
The Piotti Sporting over/under, which was three years in the making, clearly shares DNA with many of its Mediterranean mates.
The Sovereign and the Viscount were developed as the next generation of side-by-sides suitable for shooting high birds with lead and steel.