The A team of royal Guns

Gunmakers have long touted their connections to royalty. Even the names they give their guns borrow from it, with old catalogues chock-a-block with Royal, Regal and Crown models. Indeed, fieldsports have long been a passion of British monarchs and their families. The New Forest was planted in 1079 as a hunting reserve for William I, so the king could indulge in his favourite sport of hunting deer.

Perhaps inadvertently, these royal hunting habits laid the foundations for the conservation of the environment at the expense of the needs of agriculture and human habitation.

Ancient kings valued forests teeming with deer at a time when, if left unchecked, the old story of habitat loss and poaching could quite easily have sent