Longthorne’s ‘Twisted’ New Gun
If you think Damascus barrels mean light loads and Cylinder chokes, now is the time to swap those ideas for something more progressive.
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.
If you think Damascus barrels mean light loads and Cylinder chokes, now is the time to swap those ideas for something more progressive.
The British gun trade doesn’t have a lot of superstar engravers, but Ken Hunt certainly qualifies.
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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.