JohnM #99 did an excellent post.Very well written
and historically informative. WORKING MAN'S GUN.I am only 65 years
young, I remember growing up in a farming village
in 1947, 48, in Canton district of China, My grand uncle was a farmer plus game hunter. He used a DB percussion muzzle loader, so did the other farmers in our village. I was the retreiver. In England 1949-52, punt guns, I also retreived for a game farmer, British single barrels, or an inherited S x S used by most of our neighbours.
Then in Peninsular Malaya 1952-1960, then yearly trips back 1961-2006,
The average farmer used British single barrels,
the landed gentry like rubber planters , tin miners started buying quality S x S , Hollands, Purdeys ect. The white collar workers , clerical staff started buying B.S.A. , basic
British guns, the better paid workers, and professionals started buying Webleys.
