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Stan, my memory says you are right, Nickerson had a trio of 28 bores made. I could be wrong but I thought he shot a lot more partridge than grouse. As he ran farming estates, he was heavily into managing for game production. Again my memory might be off, but I think he felt his success ratio with the 28's wasn't off much from 20 and 12's. I have very limited experience but on last trip to Scotland we shot way more partridge than pheasant and I felt a 28 would have been perfect.
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According to his book A SHOOTING MAN’S CREED Nickerson did have a trio of 28 bore Purdey O/U guns. “Beautiful 5 1/2 pound guns that suit me very well.”
He “invariably kept one wrapped in cloth and stowed away out of sight in a strong wooden box made to fit the width of my Range Rover..”
Difficult to imagine he would have selected Purdey over Boss for O/U guns. At that time Purdey still built great SXS guns on the Beesley action but the Purdey O/U guns were always lacking.
Today Boss is building great guns and Purdey should refrain from building any guns and focus on peddling Chinese clothing out of Audley House.
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I have had my memory refreshed that it was a trio of Purdey/Woodward O/U 28 gauge guns and they were short barreled (26 inches).
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Nickerson was short and as his daughter said “corpulent”. Short barrels suited his physique.
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BTW,
Boss has built 28 gauge O/U guns with solid ribs and barrels of 31”
that still weigh 5# 8 oz.
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When I was staying in Kew in 2009 I used to walk down to the river for exercise and walk by the Boss shop (in and old auto license plate mfg. building) at Kew Bridge. Are they still there?
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Yes, exactly same place. Recently undergone a huge internal update. Very nice now.
Incidentally they were tagged by Banksey. No kidding. He painted an ibex on the side facing the bridge road. It became a tourist attraction with bus loads of Japanese stopping traffic daily. Security was hired.
To complicate matters the remodel was to have a window in exactly that place. Not able to be changed. So, the wall area and painting were carefully removed and curated to a private location for storage.
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I don't understand any of this, but then, I don't own any Purdey 28 gauge under over guns. I am content to shoot my very late bar in steel Purdey hammer pigeon gun, probably scarcer than a 28 gauge under over, and much more useful. I would like to hear more about Nickerson's trio of 28s.
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Not sure what more is to be said.
Double triggers, straight grip 5 1/2 pounds. Two had extra barrels. 26” on all barrels. No top ribs. No side ribs. Very worn. Built in a very bad era for Purdey. 1969-1973.
Articulated front trigger. Fires top barrel.
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