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Congratulations. I enjoy your writing, and your passion for and knowledge of fine sporting guns is obvious. I wish you all the very best with that trio of venerable names.
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Way to Go! I hope success and pleasure follow this bold and exciting move. Glad I bought your book too.
Milt
So many guns, so little time!
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Dig: good go.
Can you tell me if most/all of the work is outsourced?
As you may know we had a fellow in Houston(Cyril Adams) who I know says he was part owner of the firm for a period of time
Best to you, good going
John Boyd
John Boyd
Quality Arms Inc
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We have three full-time gunmakers on-site and barreling and stocking is done by the best in the trade before returning to us for finishing. Dupile does stocking, Blacker does barrels, St Ledger hardening etc. I will project manage the jobs as I currently do for my vintageguns.co.uk clients.
Cyril Adams is a gentleman and a past owner of AGL. I have a lot of respect for him ad his past achievements.
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Good to hear Dig
Hope to meet you in person.
Are you going to the IWA or Antique Arms show in 2011.
Best
John
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Congratulations, Mr. Hadoke! I wish now that I had known you'd be taking the helm. I just purchased a letter of provenance for my 1891 Stephen Grant & Sons 12 bore--I wish it bore your signature. Oh, and after collecting my lottery winnings, I'd like to have you rebarrel it! All the best in your future business endeavour!
--Jay Swann
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I'm going to have to be seen out and about with one of our own guns from now on - got to fly the flag for the firm!
My old Thompson will have to take a back seat and I am turning my attention to the 1871 Grant hammer gun I posted photos of on my vintageguns.co.uk website. I will nitro proof it to 70mm standard London proof and get the awful blacking off the hammers and lever.
The hammer spurs are additions so they will need shortening and finer chequer on the ends. Butt gets a leather pad to bring it to 14 5/8", I'll refinish the stock and hope I can shoot with it. The non-rebounding locks will need some practice but won't slow me down too much.
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Give me a shout if you want the hammers and lever gently glass beaded Dig.  T
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Hello Dig: Have you thought at all about coming to Charlton Hall in December?
Best Regards, George
To see my guns go to www.mylandco.com Select "SPORTING GUNS " My E-Mail palmettotreasure@aol.com
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