ENDURANCE!!!!! This English offering from Purdey the younger has been in continuous use for all but a few of years for its restoration since 1869 it is Nitro Proof and my everyday use gun. Shotgunlover how long do you want? Just to get things in proportion the year it was built the suez canal was opened in the November and Ulysses S. Grant was the US President from March 1869. Target!!! Everything the gun has ever dropped up to now has been a target and of course no person has lived long enough to see its use from the beginning. Also there is no good reason to prevent it from being a shootable gun for a further hundred years so its build quality I feel is beyond question, even if the wood does go all the way to the fore end joint.

The only lessons in my life I truly did learn from where the ones I paid for!