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Kristian Reilly

Interview with the Gunmaker No.5. With the Holland & Holland trained actioner and proprietor of MGS.

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People|May 2020

Midland Gun Services in Shrewsbury is a successful business today, specialising in custom stocking for high-level clay shooters.

Owner, Kristian Reilly, began his gunmaking career at Holland & Holland, where he trained as an actioner before working for Boxall & Edmiston and then setting up MGS, initially as a gunmaker to the Trade.

He talks to Diggory Hadoke about what it was like as an apprentice at Holland & Holland, how he became a gunmaker and decided to develop his own business.

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People|May 2020

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