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I give my shotguns names. My AYA No 3 I dubbed ‘Lazarus’ because, thanks to my friend Adam Bragg’s craftsmanship, it was brought back from the dead. My Lincoln Premier is named ‘Tohn’ (as in Wilkes Booth). I don’t like the Lincoln and am determined to get rid of it. Finally we come to the third gun in my cabinet, a Hatsan Escort Magnum called ‘Luciano Pavarotti’.

Pavarotti has become a reliable friend on the foreshore. It can shoot the largest of magnum loads and is robust; I once used it as an oar when an outboard motor malfunctioned. It has been dropped numerous times in a gutter, smeared with rotting sea life and now sports

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