Introducing the June Issue

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

May went by in a flash. Visiting friends in Texas for a motorcycle ride and a short hop to Long Island Bahama for a few days during the trip was most entertaining.

I even managed to drop-by two of Houston's best gun shops: Joseph's Vintage Guns in Richmond and Gordy & Sons. Both well worth a visit.

Returning home to ten days of Texas-like heat and no rain had me back at work packing and posting guns and getting to grips with the awful new Parcelforce courier system.

Like all of us in the Gun Trade, I'll have to learn to live with it until they get it more streamlined.

I have been keeping an eye on a hen pheasant nesting in our field but this week she was predated - fox or badger I expect.

It is a shame how few wild birds manage to raise a brood. The ducks and moorhens on the river bank have been more fortunate and fluffy ducklings are scooting around in good numbers now.

This month, I have a photo-shoot for Westley Richards to prepare for and hope to put the finishing touches to the text of the Rigby book I have been working on.

As always, thank you for reading the VGJ .

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