I talked to Mr. Makinson a long time ago at OGCA when the meeting were still in Columbus, OH. He seemed to be a fine & knowledgeable fellow.
A comment he made in one of the articles he wrote for the Doublegun Journal always stuck with me.
I'm paraphrasing here but his comment was that he frequently received cased guns with the case straps rolled up & stored in the case "presumably for a rainy day" and the case held closed only by the clasp & that when the case popped open & spilled the contents onto a hard surface it would be a "truly rainy day for the owner".
Subtle British humor.
