Guns of the Concours

A Modern Hammergun

The Gold Medal Concours d'Elegance of Fine Guns features shotguns and rifles -new and old, from around the world-that are panel-judged in a variety of classes and categories. Click! Click! The distinctive sound of hammers being brought to full cock. The birds are about to fly. The triggers are live. The adrenalin is at its peak. No sound resonates more in the human ear. To the competitive pigeon shooter at the turn of the 20th Century, the breechloading hammergun was the apogee of firearms engineering.

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