Hello Gentlemen, Gnomon, sorry you didnt get to try our gun when you visited last, if you are in the UK again, please let us know and we can arrange to meet you, alternatively we can send our gun to one of our Agents.
SKB nice to meet you. Our guns are not 'production line' they are all individually made to measure.
The way we make our barrels has several advantages and in fact, barrels made out of solid billets were first patented in 1857 by Sir Joseph Whitworth. Unfortunately labour costs at the time were cheap and technology expensive in comparison,for this reason gunmakers retained old methods, we are fortunate in that we already have the technology in place. Although our designs are different from Whitworths the benefits are the same. We feel that some of the turn of the century shotguns are wonderful however commercialism has taken over in some areas and the feel of those guns has been lost along the way. It is important to us to make guns which have the balance and pointablity of 'olde'. I hope you have the opportunity to try one of our guns one day and see for yourself how it feels.
I have attached the following link to our 'barrel innovation' page on our website listing some of the benefits, it also explains that our barrels are very much stronger than conventional barrels so are far less likely to 'dent'.
http://www.longthorneguns.com/cgi-bin/scribe?showinfo=Try-HeskethThank you for listening
Our very best wishes
Longthorne Gunmakers
