Leave it to me, an unrepentant lover of all things African, to find the one and only classic English double rifle among the hundreds of exhibitors at the NRA Annual Meetings here in Pittsburgh. The gun is a Holland & Holland “Royal” that belonged to a colorful Englishman-cum-elephant hunter named Fletcher Jamieson. The present owner, Logan B. Reed of the Pennsylvania Gun Collectors Assn., was graciously allowing NRA members to shoulder this great old classic and look over the very same V-notch sights that old Fletcher once aimed at mighty tuskers in the Zambezi Valley.
May 01, 2011
