THIS month we look at two guns from EJ Churchill, based at Stokenchurch in High Wycombe. The guns, a 12-bore and a 20-bore, are over-and-unders made in association with Battista Rizzini in northern Italy but benefit from EJ Churchill’s gunmaking, game-shooting and instructional experience. Both guns are sideplated and profusely engraved with acanthus scrollwork in Churchill’s attractive house style (applied by laser but finished by an artisan). The 12-bore Hercules, as primarily tested, has a coinfinished action, whereas the 20-bore Hercules Colour has a chemically applied case-hardened effect to the action. The latter version of the
