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Purdey Sporter

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At the end of last year, I received an email from Purdey at the Royal Berkshire Shooting School (RBSS), inviting me to a ladies’ shooting afternoon. As I didn’t really want to spend a load of money just before Christmas, I thought, instead, to send the people at Purdey an email to see if they’d be interested in letting me do a gun review for Sporting Gun.

I sent the email and then went on the Guntrader website to have a look at some Purdeys. After picking myself up off the floor, I thought that maybe I had made a mistake in sending the email, as they were somewhat above the value of guns that I am used to. I need not have worried, however, as a nice gentleman called Andrew Ambrose replied, saying that they’d love for me to come down to

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