This isn't the end of the pool I'm normally swimming in but I just noticed a James Purdey & Sons of Audley House 12 gauge lying across my dining room table. So I did the first thing that we all do when we come across a Purdey in our homes. I measured the barrel length. 25".

Doesn't look cut but I also can't recall seeing a Purdey with 25" barrels before. How (un)common might that be?


The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia