Fox, it's Christmas for goodness sakes. Go easy on our friends across the pond.
And before we know it,it will be Boxing Day over there across the pond.
Hey, I respect the "hallowed traditions" from our Limey pals- my favorite gun writer, other than Nash Buckingham, Captain Paul A. Curtis, was a huge booster for their fine double guns, but those old monied types here in "The Colonies" were the only ones who could afford them in the "Roaring 20's"--the Depression killed that, as well as sounding the death knell for Parker, AH Fox, LC Smith-
I have to admire John M. Olin, who kept the great M21 alive when his Western Cartridge Company bought the almost bankrupt WRA.
American shotguns have, for the most part, been made to take heavier loads than the Limeys use for their driven bird shooting--Different Countries, different cultures.
In Europe and in England, hunting (game birds awing) has always been restricted to the upper crust- ditto Salmon fishing on a beat in Scotland, or stag hunting there as well.
The average Tom Crachit working at Purdeys in the 1920's (assuming he wasn't crippled too severely in the "Great War" to resume his apprenticeship, never owned a Purdey, much less ever shot one at feather game awing--Like the American genius Henry Ford, Winchester made shotguns and rifles for the "common man" that Abe Lincoln spoke of so fondly- and so that a lathe hand in New Haven could afford a Winchester shotgun to hunt with--no "By your leave, M'Lord needed--
