BEAUTY OF THE BEAST
“It’s a wonderful gun, and superbly made. If I had the money, I’d buy one”
It takes quite a lot to get me excited, but the new Purdey Sporting Clays gun has managed to catch my attention. It is a big, beautiful, 8lb 9oz beast dedicated to modern Sporting competition without making any concessions whatsoever. The gun, into which there has been much R&D, is entirely London made and carries a price tag of £62K plus VAT. Yup, almost £75,000, give or take. That is an awful lot of cartridges and pitch discs. You could buy half a dozen or more top-flight clay guns for that. Indeed, in some parts of the country, you could still buy a house or flat with such a capital sum.
Is any gun worth that much? I doubt the people who can afford a new Purdey will be troubling themselves much with the answer to that question. I’m just delighted Purdey are still making such things to their renowned standards and keeping ancient trade skills
