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Breathing New Life & Value into Fine Old Double Guns

 

In our opinion nothing will enhance the pride of ownership, pleasure, beauty and value of a fine vintage double than having M& S restock it to your measurements

We take great pride in custom restocking fine double guns to our customers specifications using exhibition or high grade walnut woods from our huge in-house Inventory which we believe is the largest in the world.

Here are some pictures of our restocking work on some English "best" guns.

Please click on any of these four images to get an enlarged view.

Pair of Woodward 12g underlever best guns

Restocked to the owner's measurements in exhibition grade walnut, locks refurbished and polished, barrells reblacked. Guns are in proof and again ready for the field.

These guns were made in 1888

Rigby underlever 12 g best gun

Restocked to its owner's measurements in exhibition grade walnut, barrells reblacked. Gun is in proof and ready for the field.

The "original " stock which has only a 1.25 " drop at the heel is also shown in the photograph.

This gun was made in 1900

Purdey 16g best gun

Restocked to its owner's measurements in exhibition grade walnut. The Gun is in proof and ready for the field.

This gun was made in 1896 and retains some of its original case colors.

Churchill Premiere Grade 12g best gun

The original stock on this magnificient best gun had been damaged. It is now restocked to its owner's measurements in exhibition grade walnut,

This gun was made in 1936 and retains its original case colors.

 

Once We have received Your Gun and "stock measurements" We follow a six step process.

  1. You Select the Wood from our inventory of more than 4000 hand picked, air dried (min 6 years) blanks
  2. We first make a working prototype of the stock to make sure the measurements are exact
  3. Make the actual stock and fore-piece from the selected blank
  4. Inlet and checker stock
  5. Fit the stock and fore-piece and hand rub and polish (English matte or European gloss finish..your choice)
  6. Test Fire 10 shots

This process currently  takes from start to finish approximately 12 to 18 months.

Some of Our Stock

..of more than 4000 air dried blanks

The Wood has been selected

The Choice is fine Claro Walnut

Cary & Hector Sarasola Discuss Re-Stocking Purdey

Cary with Prototype of Purdey Stock

Hand Inletting and Checkering

Getting Ready For Final Fit & Polish

Re-Stocked Churchill

Another look at the Churchill

Absolutely Perfect

The Customer was thrilled

Churchill

Restocked 16g (120 year old) Purdey

Purdey

Restocked Holland & Holland Royal ( 110 year old gun)

Holland & Holland Royal Restocked in French Walnut

 

 

About the Photo-Gallery...

Here are some pictures of our recent restocking work on some English "best" guns

Here are some pictures showing Cary selecting exhibition grade walnut and discussing the re-stocking of a 110 year old Purdey 16g side-lock (shown above) as well as a 12 gauge Churchill premiere grade shotgun with Uruguayan outfitter  Hector Sarasola during Hector's visit  to M & S.

The results speak for themselves!

We have just finished restocking / refurbishing

1) a fine John Wilkes purchased from us by an American customer who hunted in Saskatchewan this fall.

2) A Holland & Holland Royale best side-lock.

3) A pair of Churchill's best guns.

4) A pair of Henry Atkin side-locks.

5) A fine W. R. Leeson best quality side-lock live pigeon gun.

6) A pair of best quality Grant side-lever side-lock ejectors

 

 

We also have a "Try Gun" made by the famous English gun maker Lang which enables us to more precisely establish your true measurements that will help  ensure  the best possible fit for your new custom stock. If you do not already have your measurements, then drop in to see Cary for a "fitting".

 

 

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