Originally Posted By: Chantry
For me there is something about picking up a gun, made long before I was born and appreciating it's history and in the case of the English hammer guns I prefer, looking at the time and skill a handful of people took to make what is arguably a work of art.


You mean something like this, Chantry? From about 1869 and made by Joseph Brazier, Ashes, Wolverhampton and one of a set of three marketed by Thomas Johnson of Swaffham, Norfolk.



Or this William and Powell from Liverpool? I have never seen better workmanship though the action has slipped into oblivion.






John McCain is my war hero.