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James Purdey & Sons have have been making the the finest quality guns, guns, rifles and and accessories in London since the year 1814, supplying many of the world’s most distinguished and discerning people with their shooting needs, not least the British Royal Family. Queen Victoria ordered her first Purdeys in 1838: a pair of pistols, as a royal gift to the Imam of Muscat. Her eldest son the Prince of Wales, later later King Edward VII, granted his Royal Warrant to the founder’s son, James Purdey the Younger, in 1868, an honour subsequently accorded to the firm by each suc ceeding British Monarch, including Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH The Prince of Wale Wales. s. The design of sporting guns advanced rapidly in the sixty years between 1820 and 1880. Purdey was at the forefront of these technical innovations, just as it is today, through its development of advanced CNC machining techniques for gunmaking. gunmaking. What has remained unchanged throughout Purdey’s history is the passion for
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PURDEY BESPOKE GUNS & RIFLES Ordering a new gun or rifle, built to your requirements and measurements, is a very special experience, and a much prized part of Pu rdey’s discreet and personal service. Clients tell us their individual requirements and our experienced gun room staff will advise on the best co mbination of features and the best type, and bore or calibre, of gun or rif le for your parti particular cular type of shooting. shooting. Purdey always recommend, if possible, a visit to the shooting grounds to shoot with the try gun or rifle. There your measurements are taken whilst shooting and wearing appropriate clothing. There is little difference between a gun-fittin gun-fitting, g, and a fitting fitting for a suit. Just Just as the skilled tailor ensures a perfect fit and flatters the wearer’s shape, so Purdey craftsmen ensure that a gun built to individual measurements fits perfectly, and optimises the shooter’s skill.
JAMES WOODWARD & COMPANY Woodward was, and is, a marque greatly respected by Purdey, both the Woodward over and under and the side by side, with its trademark arcaded fences, continue to be faithfully reproduced for Woodward devotees. These are numbered with sequential Woodward serial numbers and
PURDEY GUNMAKING IN THE 21ST CENTURY Purdey has a continuing investment programme in re-equipping its West London factory with the latest generation of CNC machines. This investment has enabled more changes to be made in Purdey gunmaking than were possible in the previous hundred years. All Purdey gun parts are now manufactured in house. With tolerances measured in microns these precision made components significantly reduce the time formerly spent by skilled craftsmen on preparation preparation of rough forgings, instead allowing them more time to focus their unrivalled hand and eye skills on perfecting shape, fit and finish, endowing each and every gun with its individuality and soul. The new technology ensures absolute accuracy and consistency of each and every part, improved jointing, and simpler maintenance maintenance during the life of a gun - even one built to last centuries.
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PURDEY SIDE BY SIDE GAME GUN
Purdey perfected its double barrelled shotgun in the 1880’s with the advent of its sidelock hammerless hammerless ejector gun, where the hammers were incorporated into the then revolutionary self cocking lock mechanism. The Purdey Purdey sidelock also had the additional benefit benefit of power assisted opening, designed by a Purdey gunmaker, Frederick Beesley. This system employs employs part of the residual power power in the compressed mainsprings to operate lifters which help open the gun faster faster and reduce reduce the ti me take n reloadi ng. This may shave only a f ractio n of a second off reloading but on a busy drive this can make a significant difference to your rate of fire, especially especially when shooting do uble gun s at grouse or partridge. The Purdey hammerless sidelock ejector gun with its unique assisted opening action remains to this day the classic light game gun, perfected over 130 years of continuous production, and still the most popular gun in the entire Purdey range.
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Purdey offers dedicated action sizes on all its guns in square, round or ultra-round action shapes. This gives each gun perfect proportions and is extremely important to the overall look, balance and feel.
OUR SIDE BY SIDE GUNS ARE BUILT ON THE FAMOUS SELF-OPENING SYSTEM PATENTED BY FREDERICK BEESLEY IN 1880. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF OUR HAMMER GUNS THIS SYSTEM HAS BEEN IN USE EVER SINCE.
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PURDEY OVER AND UNDER GUN - HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
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Purdey were relative latecomers in introducing an over and under gun. This configuration had become increasingly popular and fashionable in the early years of the 20 th Century with the rise of competition live pigeon shooting, and subsequently clay targets. Athol Purdey, Purdey, who ran the fir m from 1900 until 1929, was concerned that an over and under mechanism might prove insufficiently robust and thus damage the company’s reputation.
over engineered and too heavy, not only in weight but in looks. Undeterred, James and Tom persisted, and gradually the weight came down, the looks improved and a few were sold each year. In 1948, with the firm under new ownership, and Tom Purdey continuing as Managing Director, Purdey acquired the London gunmaker James Woodward, Woo dward, famous not only for their excellent excellent side by side guns, but also their superb over and under, patented in 1913. Thus Purdey found itself with an over and under
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Purdey, in-co-operation with their specialised forging partner in Sheffield, England, re-forge the steel to suit the complexity of shapes required for the barrels, ribs, action bodies, lock plates, fore-part irons, triggers and guards. The most challenging process is the twisting of the barrel billets to mirror the familiar twist patterns seen in traditional Damascus barrels of the 19th century. century. The absence of eng raving reveals the extraordinary patterns offered by the Damascus steel once the surfaces have been differentially acid etched. Purdey need only to
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