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Hi SJX....it is so hard to comparemodern with vintage,

I sent a reply to you but it went into the unknown....anyway I think it is very hard to compare modern with vintage, as things have changed so much.

Purdey and Holland & Holland always were and still are right up there....possibly the best, but are not so modern gun houses as H&H began around 1850 and Purdey even earlier, may be 1810 or 1820....but off course they are still going so modern in that respect.

Vintage guns that were the top of the tree in their day are by today’s comparison worlds apart in accuracy, range, performance and reliability of modern guns, no matter who makes them.

We can’t compare vintage against the result of using modern steel, modern propellant or today’s manufacturing technique.

You know I often wonder how accurate a new watch was when it was made in say 1825 and if the advances of watches and guns was parallel, in time of improvement.

May be they did evolve at the same pace as my Grandfather had a watch that he wound every morning and often commented that it only lost 1 or 2 seconds a day....and he may not have said this so often if that were normal, and he had a gun that he also boasted was very accurate.

That was in the 1950s and he bought both around 1915......so when did watches become accurate to within a second or two per day...any idea?

Kindest Regards,

Jack