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    Nov 14, 2019 6 minutes

    A TRULY BRITISH GUN

    I usually enjoy reading contributions from Mike Yardley. He is informative and knowledgable on most shooting matters. He is also a gifted and eloquent defender of shooting on the radio and television. However, I feel I must take issue with him over his review of Manor & Co’s over-and-under [November issue]. He describes the firm as a new name in English gunmaking but then goes on to say that the gun is made up of parts that have been made in Germany, Italy and Spain hardly the heritage for a true English gun.

    In my view, any Tom, Dick or Harry could do this. I myself, if I so desired, could source parts from, say, Turkey and France, import them into this country and employ a competent gunsmith to assemble a gun for me and then put my name on the action. Would this make me the latest English gunmaker? I do not think so. What is needed is a clear and widely accepted definition to describe an English gunmaker.

    For what it is worth, this would be mine:

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