Sporting Gun

Collector’s lot

Collectors in general start collecting either through nostalgia or an inspirational moment. My own collecting habit started when I was 14 years old. A friend of mine invited me back to his house after school so he could show me his air pistol. It was a simple push-in barrel model by Diana, but an hour and 14 dead spiders pinned to the inside of the shed roof by fluffy-tailed air-darts later I was hooked.

It wasn’t just the firing of the pistol that inspired me, it was everything. The smell of dieseling oil,

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