I ran into a shooting friend at lunch today and he told me about shooting his brand new P&V at the National this year. Due to their association with Purdey, he decided to order a custom engraved OU with the detachable trigger group, similar to this example from P&V last year:
I sent him to Bill Kempfer for a gun fitting and he went through the bespoke gun ordering process culminating one year later in a beautiful ST clays gun with 32" barrels. He shot maybe 4,000 rounds with it at our local club, then packed it up for the National. In competition, the upper barrel lock seized up and refused to activate the firing pin. He found a gunsmith who pulled the trigger group and sent it to Italy. It was returned two weeks later in supposedly pristine order. At the next competition, it misfired once again, but resumed normal operation shortly thereafter. He confided in me that he has lost confidence in the gun due to these incidents and it the concern of a misfire is often a mental distraction when he is in competition. He is ordering twin to this gun in a 2-barrel set 20/28 and I advised him to spec DT on his order!
