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Shotgun, rifle and bayonet

ne of the excitements in the gun world is that occasionally you come across an absolute gem of a gun by a lesser known maker that can often be far more interesting than one from the bigger names. I recently examined a very fine percussion stalking rifle by a maker I had never heard of and when I researched this maker, I found out that he lived in the mid-19th century not four miles from me in rural Fife. Unfortunately, everybody else

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