I got to read the latest issue of The Shooting SPortsman at a friend's place today and it had two sad pieces of information to offer. Purdey are due to start outsourcing the production of some models of their guns to Perugini Visini and, secondly, Asprey had to close their gunmaking business down and sell off whatever they had to William Evans.

I have asked for more information about this from the forum of the British gun trade and shall post it here when I hear something. Perugini Visini are very good guns but I cannot believe that Purdey have decided to move production out...