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"Custom made rather than hand made" is well put. There is a new industrial trend, mass customisation, in the pipeline and it might yet surprise us all with what it can do for the shotgunner.
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Good Morning Gentlemen,
To clarify, our barrels, are not 'Monoblock' We manufacture the entire barrel set including the'monoblock' section and forend loop from the same billet of steel there are no joins whatsoever in our barrels. We start with a 62lb billet of steel and the resulting (30") barrels weigh approximately 2lb 14oz.
Hello Gunflint Charlie, you are quite correct the investment needed to produce guns in this way and to our level of quality and precision is a very significant factor some of which (in our case) has to be recouped
My best wishes
Elaine
Longthorne Gunmakers
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I think it is interesting that when Shooting Sportsman publishes an article about a gun or gunmakers it is almost always a very expensive custom gun costing tens of thousands of dollars or more. Yet, when they have an article on real hunting, excepting a tame quail hunt, most of the guns involved are entry level O/Us and the occasional autoloader that cast $2000 or less. "Best" guns are more finely made and awfully pretty to look at, but they do not function any better than mainstream guns. They can be enjoyed for their looks and craftsmanship, but they do not send a swarm of shot towards the target any better. If Best guns actually functioned better than "regular" guns then many of the very wealthy who are serious target shooters would be wielding Holland sporters or one-off Italian guns. I have done very well both in the field and at clays with Beretta, L. C. Smith, Ithaca and Fox sxs. A best would not help me shoot any better, but it would be more fun and add a different, luxurious form of pleasure to my day.
Regards,
Jeff
"We are men of action. Lies do not become us."
Wesley
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Hello Gentlemen, Gnomon, sorry you didnt get to try our gun when you visited last, if you are in the UK again, please let us know and we can arrange to meet you, alternatively we can send our gun to one of our Agents. SKB nice to meet you. Our guns are not 'production line' they are all individually made to measure. The way we make our barrels has several advantages and in fact, barrels made out of solid billets were first patented in 1857 by Sir Joseph Whitworth. Unfortunately labour costs at the time were cheap and technology expensive in comparison,for this reason gunmakers retained old methods, we are fortunate in that we already have the technology in place. Although our designs are different from Whitworths the benefits are the same. We feel that some of the turn of the century shotguns are wonderful however commercialism has taken over in some areas and the feel of those guns has been lost along the way. It is important to us to make guns which have the balance and pointablity of 'olde'. I hope you have the opportunity to try one of our guns one day and see for yourself how it feels. I have attached the following link to our 'barrel innovation' page on our website listing some of the benefits, it also explains that our barrels are very much stronger than conventional barrels so are far less likely to 'dent'. http://www.longthorneguns.com/cgi-bin/scribe?showinfo=Try-HeskethThank you for listening Our very best wishes Longthorne Gunmakers Mr Stewart, I get the impression from reading your post that you are the owner of the factory, is this correct? On 01/19/2012 right here on this forum a member by the name Longhorne wrote: “we are planning to do a side x side model but it's just in the design stages at the moment” In response, I wrote this to him: “Let me stop you there dear Sir for a moment:
You are planning to build A side by side, correct? Have you ever thought of a side by side like no other… one that exhibits performance that cannot be surpassed, or even duplicated… one that has no equal, one that cannot be beaten… THE side by side… …
Just think of it as the Bugatti Veyron of shotguns……
Would you like more information?”
Is this person affiliated with your company in any way, and did my words ,as written above ,ever reach you? Thank you
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Mr Stewart,
I get the impression from reading your post that you are the owner of the factory, is this correct?
On 01/19/2012 right here on this forum a member by the name Longhorne wrote: “we are planning to do a side x side model but it's just in the design stages at the moment”
In response, I wrote this to him:
“Let me stop you there dear Sir for a moment:
You are planning to build A side by side, correct? Have you ever thought of a side by side like no other… one that exhibits performance that cannot be surpassed, or even duplicated… one that has no equal, one that cannot be beaten… THE side by side… …
Just think of it as the Bugatti Veyron of shotguns……
Would you like more information?”
Is this person affiliated with your company in any way, and did my words ,as written above ,ever reach you?
Thank you
Beretta Ariston, it took me all of about 10 seconds to determine that Elaine Stewart is the Marketing Director of Longthorne and that she probably is usually addressed with a "Ms, Miss or Mrs." Unlikely, although possible, she is the factory owner.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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Dear Beretta Ariston,
Thank you for your continued interest, I did respond to your post 19.1.12, although it was small so you may have missed it. Apologies.
Canvasback, hello, I am indeed Elaine Stewart (Mrs) but Elaine is fine :-). I am Co Director/Owner of Longthorne Gunmakers.
We are planning to make a side-x-side and it will be very different to others, we are hoping it will be considered to be the 'Bugatti Veyron' of shotguns :-)
Best wishes
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