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Wimbledon Park over-and-under

HIS month’s test gun is intriguing but familiar. It’s called the Wimbledon Park, conceived by Stephen Murray, who managed the Purdey Sporter project, and is made in association with Perugini & Visini (a Brescian firm) as the Purdey Sporter once was. Weighing in at 7lb 12oz, the gun is elegantly, but quite plainly, finished with minimal tight scroll hand engraving at the fences, action knuckle and action belly. There are beaded edges underneath too, and sculpting at the fences. The Wimbledon Park name is hand engraved on the bottom of both action walls in London style.

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