Vintage British Shotguns: A Shooting Sportsman Guide

Very informative and well written. Good complement to the information in Hadoke’s book on vintage British shotguns.

Excellent book.

That's a compendium of all the main information over the traditional side by sides. History and technical information all together on a beautiful and we'll written book.

Got this book for my father on Father's Day. I haven't seen it but he said it's one of the best books his ever read on the topic with a vast amount of information on both the history of the guns and on the actual vintage guns themselves.

As a collector of old British shotguns this is one of the best books I have ever come across. It is absolutely packed full of information.

Quality book on the very best British shotguns that the average hunter/shooter will never be able to afford . However do not dispair ... Use the info in this book to your advantage . Use it to find a top quality (non best)British shotgun with all the trimmings at a fraction of the cost of the big names . Then use the money that you have saved to fund your adventures afield . That's what I have done . I fing myself using a supurb Birmingham double that has all the characteristics of the top names . I could afford to buy & shoot it . Thanks to a top book that armed me with the details I needed .

Great read with a wealth of information!

wonderful

Vintage British Shotguns: A Shooting Sportsman Guide This book is very well produced - good quality paper, excellent colour photos in the middle, good black-and-white photos throughout. So good, in fact, that I was disappointed it was not in a larger format. It hits all the right notes, emphasising the importance of wanting such a gun for use rather than ornament, and acknowledging the importance of the social connotations of the English country-house weekend as part of the appeal. The author writes directly (and ruefully) from his own experience of the weather conditions in which the English shooting party is often expected to operate, and explains how this has had an influence on the design of the old-school English shotgun.Surprisingly, there is no mention of one of the principal reasons for the relative cheapness of fine-quality guns in the UK as opposed to what they fetch in the USA, i.e. the rigorous gun control which has made it increasingly difficult to be a gun owner in the UK. And, given the wealth of illustrations which characterise the book, I found it strange that nowhere is there an "exploded diagram" of a shotgun clarifying what all the arcane terminology refers to - if you don't already know where the "fence" is, for instance, this book won't tell you.I noticed one mistake. As a Londoner, I can say confidently it is not true that the Army & Navy shop in Victoria Street is "the only department store operating in the Mayfair district" (p204). Its rivals include Harrods, John Lewis in Sloane Square and Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge. But at this point the book had clearly deviated from its area of expertise. Buy this book if your primary requirement is a good accessible introduction to the subject in hand, and one which happens to double as a "coffee table book" to show your friends into the bargain. Vintage British Shotguns: A Shooting Sportsman Guide

Good interesting book. Too early to comment on content as have not yet read it!Looking promising however

more in depth than I hoped for

Excellent volume of information

Very dood reading