Vintage Guns for the Modern Shot, the Brit version. Can't say that I have digested its whole yet, but the first page easily has one taking the bait and wanting to hole up and read it straight through. The quality of the book itself, the paper, binding and photography are all first class and it should hold up to the next generation with reasonable care. It appears to have an up close wood pigeon background on the book's cover as background to the 1899 Purdey depicted, a subtle & most appropriate choice, IMHO. I'm 40 pages or so deep now in methodical reading, after having to leaf through every page first just to look at the photographs and captions and taking a few liberties along the way. This book clearly has soul and it is both a modern one and one honoring the past that it celebrates. Not your average gun book, this one is refreshingly different and yet it stays within always reasonable tether, much as Phil Beasley's pigeon magnet. This book may well prove to create some new vintage gun users from the unannointed, and any that are already steeped in the lure will only appreciate it all the more.

Thanks, Dig!