Introducing the September Issue

Welcome to The Vintage Gun Journal, your free-to-view monthly magazine for all things British gun and rifle.

September has broken and so have the skies. At last the rain has come to provide a little respite for our poor sheep, who have been munching dust all summer.

I only hope it has not come too late to save some of our young trees, many of which have died during the months of drought.

On the moors, there have been varied reports of better breeding success in the north, though the drought and heather beetle have continued to cause problems in other areas.

I head to Yorkshire next week for three days trying to shoot a few of these unuque and iconic game birds. For those few days, I'd be pleased to see the rain abate!

As usual, I will be using a matched pair of 1870s under-lever hammer guns. Lead shot survives for another season but the next will be the last.

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