OUR JOURNAL

16/05/2018

Newcomers Italian gunmakers Caesar Guerini was established by a small group of shotgun enthusiasts in 2002 who pooled their professional resources to create a new name in gunmaking. Located in Brescia, Italy’s gunmaking region with a history stretching back 400 years, the company is now well established.

16/05/2018

One of London’s most famous gunmakers, Boss & Co was founded in 1812 by Thomas the youngest son of a well-known gunmaker. His 73 St James’s Street became its iconic headquarters and an invite to Prince Albert’s Great Exhibition was a royal sign of approval. The appointment of John Robertson, whose descendants worked for the […]

16/05/2018

In 1911 widowed Teresa Benelli bought an auto service business to provide her six sons with an income, they were soon making motorcycles as well as repairing them. Avid hunters, the boys also turned their engineering talents to gunmaking and in 1967 they developed  their own gun and opened a factory. The business was sold […]

16/05/2018

Spanish gunmakers Augiree y Aranzabal or AYA first came onto the British market in the 1950s. AYA began developing guns for the UK marketing including sidelocks No.1 and No.2 and No.3, a non-ejector boxlock (non-ejectors are no longer made by the company). Today, No.37 and the Augusta over-and-unders are popular.

11/05/2018

American company Browning may have its roots in Utah and the Wild West, but it has had close ties with Europe since 1897. Brothers John and Matthew Browning’s automatic shotgun of 1902 and its over-and-under, known today as the B25 after its design was perfected in 1925, was manufactured in Belgium where it continues as […]

11/05/2018

Founded in 1957 by Horst Blaser, the German manufacturer’s makes it into The Field magazine’s top 20 best shotguns. German precision and pursuit of perfection is very much at work at its automated factory where accuracy is an incredible 0.01 of a millimetre resulting in highly reliable and well-built shotguns.

11/05/2018

The famous Italian Beretta name has been around for centuries, since 1526, in fact. Fifteen generations of the Beretta family have been involved in the business. Now with headquarters in the US, Beretta remains associated with precision engineering and latest technology outputting 1,500 firearms a day, 90% are sporting firearms with around 75% exported to […]