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A View From The Hill
This page is going to be dedicated to the thoughts and opinions of us here at Woodcock Hill and Thomas Bland & Sons as well as your thoughts and opinions. Along with some of the latest news and happenings in the gun world.
Things will develop as we go along. Send us an e-mail with your thoughts and opinions so that we may all share them.
E- Mail us at bland@epix.net give us you name and e-mail address (if you wish to remain anonymous let us know).
Make a reservation for our Shooting Schools this year. Remember the week-ends get booked up quickly so if it is a week-end that you require give us a call.
Remember: When looking for the gun of your dreams. If it looks too good to be true then in 99% of the cases it is too good to be true.
Army & Navy information For those of you who happen to own an Army & Navy CSL Gun and would like to learn the history of your gun we have recently learned that the company records do exist and you may now research your gun. The archives of the Army & Navy gun department are well preserved and are now stored in the Business Records Center of Glasgow University. They may be studied free of charge by personal callers (appointment advisable). For a fee of 20.00 Pounds Sterling plus VAT, the history of a particular gun can be traced.
Enquires should be addressed to: The Duty Archivist, Archives and Business Records Center, University of Glasgow, 13 Thurso Street, Glasgow G11 6PE Scotland, Telephone from the USA 011-44-141-330-5515 or e-mail at dutyarch@archives.gla.ac.uk . Enquiry forms may also be downloaded from the website, www.archives.gla.ac.uk .
If you are concerned about the differences in shot size from Country to Country here is the chart
| SHOT SIZE EQUIVALENTS | ||||||
| English | Metric mm | American* | French | Belgian+ | Italian | Spanish |
| LG | 9.1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| SG | 8.4 | 00 Buck | - | 9G | 11/0 | - |
| SPEC. SG | 7.6 | 1 Buck | C2 | 12G | 9/0 | - |
| AAA | 5.2 | 4 Buck | 5/0 | - | - | - |
| BB | 4.1 | Air Rifle | 1 | 00 | 00 | 1 |
| 1 | 3.6 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 or 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 3.3 | 4 | 4 | - | 3 | 4 |
| 4 | 3.1 | 5 | 5 | - | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | 2.8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | 2.6 | - | - | 6 | 6 | 7 |
| 7 | 2.4 | 7 1/2 | 7 | 7 | 7 1/2 | 7 |
| 7 1/2 | 2.3 | 8 | 7 1/2 | 7 1/2 | 8 | 7 1/2 |
| 8 | 2.2 | - | 8 | 8 | - | 8 |
| 9 | 2.0 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 1/2 | 9 |
| * Also Swedish + Also Dutch | ||||||
ENGLISH SHOTGUNS BETWEEN THE WARS
A BUYERS AND SELLERS GUIDE
The most comprehensive publication available, listing over 1,500 English gunmakers in alphabetical order. This publication has taken Mr. John B. Friedman over 20 years to compile and has been published by Woodcock Hill Inc. Press. It allows you to know with some degree of certainty that the gun you may be examining is indeed of English manufacture. If you are seriously interested in English Sporting Guns this is one of those must have publications. 72pp wraps... $31.00
Limited Edition Hard Backed numbered copies are available at... $105.00
If you are serious about English guns this is a must have reference publication.
“Brace yourselves”, price of pheasant shooting in England and Scotland may double next year"
This was the headline in the weekend edition of The Daily Telegraph today. The whole article can be reviewed on their web site, www.telegragh.co.uk. The whole problem stems from the use of the drug “Emtryl” which is used by Estates to prevent disease in their pheasant, partridge and grouse stocks. This drug is already banned in the EU but somehow its use has been over looked in the United Kingdom. This has all come to light now and there is a demand for the discontinuation of the drugs use immediately. Emtryl is doomed and along with it the livelihoods of every gamekeeper, gunsmith and maker, gun dog breeder, beater, loader, cartridge maker, cooks for shoot lunches and hoteliers, the list is endless, the whole shooting match will feel the effects straight away as who can pay close to £60 per bird to shoot.
Woodcock Hill Inc. & Thomas Bland & Sons Gunmakers Ltd. now have the staff who are specially trained to make and fit the Best London Style pigskin leather covered recoil pads that are the standard of the world.
LEATHER COVERED RECOIL PADS Best pigskin (use only English pigskin for the best leather covered recoil pads) leather covered recoil pads. They are made to order here in the United States to your specifications. Our staff has been trained in England by the firm which makes the Leather Pads for the top English Gun Making Firms. We use only the best English pigskin and materials. We offer a quick turn around time. $355.00 Call for details on trade prices.
Anyone out there who does not agree with us let us know and we happily will give you equal space.
Phones Estate Shooting in Scotland
The ladies having a break
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