Over Christmas, our opening times will be changing slightly. Please see the full details below:
Tuesday December 23rd – 9AM-6PM. Open as normal.
Christmas Eve (24th December): 10am-4pm
Christmas Day (25th December): Closed
Boxing Day (26th December): Closed
Saturday 27th December: 10am-2pm
Sunday 28th December: Closed
Monday 29th December: 10am-2pm
Tuesday 30th December: 10am-2pm
Wednesday 31st December: 10am-2pm
Thursday 1st January: Closed
Friday 2nd January: 10am-2pm
Saturday 3rd January: 10am-2pm
Sunday 4th January: Closed
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Over-and-under, when one barrel sits on top of another, is by far the most popular choice of shotgun among today’s game shooters.
We tend to think of the over-and-under shotgun as a modern design and it wasn’t until hammers were moved inside the frame that it was possible to develop a good over-and-under. It took until just before World War I for a marketable over-and-under to be developed by which time London and Birmingham gunmakers were experimenting with the design.
In 1909 the famous gunmakers founded by Thomas Boss was under the management of John Robertson, the first to devise an over-and-under that would survive in its original form to the present day. The Woodward followed in 1913 as did Frederick Beesley’s ‘shotover’ which involved turning the lock to fire upside down to achieve best possible angle of strike. In America, it is John Browning’s ‘superimposed’ design which enabled the gun to be produced en masse.