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King George V in 1907 was short one gun



The aforementioned Archduke. I can't tell how many guns he had

I would guess most folks fall into the “Buy the gun, not the story “ category.
I certainly do.
I don’t even research a gun until I own it. Then I’m mostly checking what the original configuration was/is.
Most British best guns were made for someone notable as common men seldom possessed the funds to buy them or to utilize them.

Yet when I find the occasional royal connection it does not detract from my enjoyment of the gun.

When I’ve sold guns with connections to royalty or famous people they seldom sell higher or more quickly than otherwise.

The above explanation is what I thought when I read his comment earlier in this series of posts of much ado about little.

Stephen Howell

For what it’s worth, I shot the Ripon challenge with the trio of AYA’s a few years back. Hit 32, which was kind of 75th percentile for the hundred or so men that had shot it.

It was a nice traveling Wingshooter trip.

Flew into London, had a man’s day, went to the West London, shooting school for some lessons and shot the Ripon challenge.

By the time I got over there to shoot it, the people running it were getting pretty good at the gun transfers, so the pace was really picking up, and you better pop them as soon as they cleared the hedge or they were going to get past you, which would then cost you the next couple birds.

Shooting a trio is a lot of work.

Double gunning is a blast, shooting a trio is complicated.

I shot a bunch of geese with a Greener that used to be owned by Worth Matthewson, but shooting a shotgun with royal providence would be very special.

But I do things to be excessive and special. Which is why this VPN is located in Finland. Cause that’s where I’m having my caviar dinner before I go to the far north and fish for Browntrout.

Interesting reading. It was a different time.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x7uk0ii6-lPdWEZj5ctyqr1td19ZcsA5xGGoKBhP9o0/edit?tab=t.0

https://books.google.com/books?id=4xRmHkr7Lp8C&pg=PA175&source
Tom de Grey, the 6th Lord Walsingham
“On August 30 (1888), when I killed 1,070 grouse to my own gun in the day, I shot with four breechloaders. No.1, a gun made in 1866 by Purdey, subsequently converted from pin-fire to central principle, to which new barrels were made last year. Nos. 2 and 3, a pair of central fire breechloaders, made also by Purdey, about 1870, for which I have likewise had new barrels. No. 4, a new gun made by Purdey this year to match the two mentioned above, but with Whitworth steel instead of Damascus barrels. The guns are all 12 bore, with cylinder 30 in. barrels, not choked.”

One thing about black powder, it does put heat in the barrels.

500 brace, Mercy! They must have been running the entire estate back and forth down a canyon.

as many as he wanted....

Those prats might think they’re gods but there’s quite a few of us that don’t think so highly of them.


Whenever I see or hear caviar I think of this scene in Mr Inbetween…

How’d it go with Tran?

Oh I just napalm’d ‘im.

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Prison napalm.

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Oh, ok, so you get a cup…….




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Yeah, I’m more of a burger, potato salad and beer bloke myself.

Caviar:



Best,
Ted

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I was thinking burger, potato salad, beer, and Cub bloke.

Yes, Ted, very selective provence. But no, I'd not want to own Bo Whoop. Would I like to shoot it on a duck hunt? Absolutely.

A few very privileged DU officials got that chance at Beaver Dam Lake a few years ago. There was an article written about that hunt.

I have my own 32" barreled, 3" chambered Super Fox that I have enjoyed in the duck swamps for at least 15 years. I never tire of using it.