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Longthorne Berkley £69,161 plus VAT

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OUR VERDICT

On a recent quail hunting trip to North Carolina (A sporting quarry to make you quail, 22 March), I was lucky enough to shoot not one but two different guns with 28-bore titanium barrels. The first was a limited-edition Longthorne Valkyrie trigger-plate action weighing 6lb 4oz, and the other was a sidelock over-and-under weighing in at 5lb 2oz. Both were incredible in their own way, but it’s the sidelock we are going to look at today.

The Longthorne sidelock has been around for some years in 12, 16, 20 and 28-bore and has seen some development over that time. As issues arose

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