Happy New Year to you all and many thanks for your frank discussion about our guns. To answer some of your questions, our guns are all made entirely in house at our factory now in Northampton. We do use machines to produce many of the parts involved in our guns, all gun manufacturers do. At Longthorne we utilise the finest space-age gunmaking materials crafted using state of the art automated high tech machinery enhanced through Computer Aided Design that guarantees a degree of accuracy of machined parts unachievable by any human being. However, There is also a great deal of hand crafting involved in the manufacture of our guns.
All the major parts, actions, barrels stocks and forends are hand finished using pains-taking hand finishing techniques to guarantee results that can only be achieved by skilled craftsmen and then hand assembled. Each Longthorne gun is measured and entirely bespoke fitted, our stocks for example are roughly shaped by machine and then hand shaped at our factory often with the client present, to their requirement to ensure that his gun is looking where he/she is looking, our barrels and actions are all polished by hand and our engraving is hand finished. Of course we are able to do this entirely by hand but it takes much longer and is more expensive.
Our barrels are very unique and we currently have patents in the UK and USA. They are made entirely from a solid block of high specification steel which makes them very light and very strong, the benefit of which produces a gun with very little recoil and muzzle flip which can be proofed for magnum steel. Our barrels are also parallel which means that the shot exits the barrel on a constant path, we have found that our guns maintain a better pattern for a longer distance for this reason.
If anyone is interested in handling a Longthorne it would give us great pleasure to demonstrate its attributes, so please don't hesitate to contact us. Very best wishes 'Longthorne'