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    The butt of jokes no more

    Jun 04, 2019 3 minutes
    CHARLES SMITH-JONES SAYS: “It has a rugged elegance that speaks of solid reliability and affordable simplicity”

    Back in the mid-1970s a group of us regularly used to get together to try for a rabbit or pigeon on a Saturday morning before going on to our pocket-money jobs.

    Our guns were an eclectic assortment: Mike had a new over-and-under that we all secretly coveted; I used the old family 20-bore; and Andy had a single-barrelled Baikal. Poor Andy. It was

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