It is exceptionally well figured and finished with hand cut chequering and a traditional oil finish. The engraving combines some fairly sparse but good scroll with well executed, if quite simple, game scenes on a silver finished action. It is very nicely finished without appearing too flash. Our gun test this month concerns a rather nice 20 bore specimen of the design, and it might be considered an ideal game gun by many, and is presented in an increasingly popular gauge for field work (I do 90% of my UK driven game shooting with a 20 bore these days).įirst impressions of the test gun are very good, the B25 (as the Superposed is also known) looks smart with good engraving and wood. In fact, he died at this work bench perfecting it (leaving his son Val to complete the first single trigger mechanism – there have been several since). It was the last invention of Mormon gun making genius, John Moses Browning. The latter first saw the light of day in the 1920s.
Of all the shotguns that have influenced modern shotgun design I would say that three stand out more than any other, the Anson and Deeley boxlock side by side circa 1876, the Purdey-Beesley sidelock circa 1880, and the Browning Superposed over and under.
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