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FeedGuns of the Concours
A California Upland Classic
By Roger Sanger & Steve Helsley
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. For the 15-year-old apprentice, the view from his workbench at Purdey's Irongate Wharf factory was like something from a Charles Dickens novel. Through metal window frames and grimy glass, he saw only the red brick wall of the adjoining building. In later years, when the operation moved to North Wharf Road, he could see railroad tracks and, occasionally, smoke rising over the London skyline when the IRA set off a bomb.
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