A PIECE OF GUNMAKING HISTORY
Every gun could tell a story or two, but some have more to tell than others. The very first Perazzi MT6, serial number 100,000, pictured here has a fascinating history, starting with its creation by the Italian 1964 Olympic gold medallist Ennio Mattarelli, and finishing up in the hands of Alex King, a keen shooter and reader of this magazine, who lives in Dorset. Along the way, the gun travelled to New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, and was reunited with Ennio’s tobacco pipe which had inspired the design of the action. It is thanks to Alex, and his friend ‘Mike the Gun’, that the
