Wow- when that fat cigar smokin' whisky drinkin' Limey PM said "This was their finest hour" he wasn't talking about his namesake shotguns and the "Glorious 12th of August" was he- sounds like the story I heard about Limey Thomas Purdey and the backdraft he gave his employees after he sent a matched pair around 1932 to Lord MuckingFutch without the strikers installed (that's firing pins to us Colonials)--If this is a Churchill Premiere, those guns were made to the same standards as Boss, Purdey and those little twin boys from Amsterdam (Holland to the power of two)-- If it is a Kassner/Kassnar knock-off, it's off to the gunsmyths for a tune-up-- whatever is happening ain't right. I have a friend who inherited a Woodward SLE 12 bore game gun (NOT an "ass=isted opener either) and it opens and closes like a bank vault door, regardless if the ejectors have been released or not--a real Steinway!!!
