Says the firm’s Jason Craddock, “The draw system reduces strain at the knuckle and keeps the barrels on the face the rear bolt and bites fasten the gun. A bolt emerging from the face locks these down. To the rear of the chambers two semicircular projections protrude and engage slots on either side of the bottom of the action face. There are draws projecting one on each side of the action walls meeting corresponding female radii in the middle of bifurcated barrel lumps. Instead, rotating trunnions at the knuckle mate with teardrop wedges machined into the barrel lumps. Breech-loading over-and-unders had been made in Germany from about 1870 but Boss streamlined and lowered the action, dispensing with a cross-pin beneath the barrels. And the modern version is on of the most expensive guns in the world today. The Boss over-and-under has two locking systemsīoss, established in 1812, patented its over-and-under – one of the most influential of all – in 1909.
17 rifle weighing 2lb, engraved with beetles. He may work on a single piece for many years (on one he lavished 21,400 hours).
All are ornate and mechanically original. “Every third gun we create is a new gun.” About six guns leave his atelier each year. “Every-body says you can’t create a new gun. Hofer, based in Ferlach, Austria, is a great showman and maker of some of the world’s most exclusive, innovative and most expensive guns. There is a 25% supplement for a pair.ĭelivery: usually four to five years. Price: from £138,000 for an all-stainless gun and £150,000 for one with a titanium action (which reduces overall weight by about a pound if required). They are imported by Tony Kennedy, who observes, “There is nothing better and never has been, so much goes into it, you have to see how it is made to understand.” The barrels, also tested to extreme proof pressure, become virtually indestructible. It is then DLC (diamond-like carbon)-coated, this high-temperature vacuum process vastly increasing resistance to wear as well as blacking the steel. When everything is exactly right the assembly with sighting rib is fused together by laser, creating one piece of metal. The demi-lump barrels made from stainless steel, for example, don’t have conventional joining ribs a micron-machined H-section sits between the tubes, which are brought into perfect re-lationship for point of impact by this component. Every detail is thought through and many are unusual. The guns, blending old and new, are technically supreme. At the Fabbri factory (read about the editor’s visit to the Fabbri: Italian gunmakers factory) the bench artisans work in silence as if in a religious establishment. This is not only one of the most expensive guns, it is probably the most sophisticated.
The Fabbri 20-bore over-and-under is a Continental classic
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