Krieghoff Essencia

After the second bottle had been opened, dinner discussion turned to "best" guns and who makes them today. We were at the most recent Vintage Cup and had been wallowing in the finest doubles extant. Two of our party suggested that these days the Germans are making better English guns than the English. Although the next evening my dinner table full of English gunmakers declined to share that opinion, there's no doubt that the Germans are producing some stunning classic game guns. In the past I'd always felt that German and Austrian guns were built like bank vaults-delightfully complex, yet visually odd.

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