How To Kill Three Birds With One Stone,

or I should say one gun,

what many in the gun world would call the 'Holy Grail' of shotguns has just been sold, a good introduction to it is here in this article from the Shooting Society, it appears the gun was commissioned by John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC (25 September 1860 – 29 February 1908), also known as Viscount Aithrie before 1873 and as The 7th Earl of Hopetoun between 1873 and 1902, was the first Governor-General of Australia,


for the technical it is described as, 'a fine and exceptionally rare 16-bore 1882 patent three-barrelled sidelever round-action ejector, serial no. 4415 with 28in. replacement side-by-side-by-side nitro barrels (by the makers), ribs engraved ‘JOHN DICKSON & SON. PATENT. 32, HANOVER STREET, EDINBURGH.’, 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. 1/2 choke (centre barrel, first trigger), 3/4 choke (right barrel, second trigger) and imp. cyl. (left barrel, third trigger), J. Dickson and A.G. Murray patent action, patent no. 873 of 23rd February 1882, use number 343',


for the non technical it went for £43,000 last month, which for what appears to be a totally unique gun went for me a little under what I would have expected, but then I guess you do not get many game birds flying in triple formation!