Purdey made a very limited number of single barrel guns on the Beesley action. Donald Dallas described one in an early edition of the Double Gun Journal, round about 1996 but unfortunately I have either misplaced that edition or lent it to someone. There is an article about this gun here:
https://www.facebook.com/LindaMellorPhot...17403174938961/The reason I am so interested in that article is that I grew up in a cottage on the Balbirnie Estate and my father was best friends with the Keeper "Sloane". We all called him "Jimmy". While I was in high school and university I used to go beating on the estate and that is where I got my first interest in shooting.
I was walking on Falkland Hill this past October and flushed a couple of grouse at almost the same place as one of the photographs. That article, when I found it, brought back many pleasant memories of going through thick bramble bushes and the constant tapping of our sticks.
