The Purdey Post

We’re delighted to announce the first in a new series of Purdey House tweeds, inspired by Tom Purdey. In last week’s article we introduced you to this legendary character in...

A man whose reputation precedes him, we’d like to take the time to properly introduce you to one of the most magnetic characters in Purdey history: Mr Tom Purdey. Tom...

For the past year, the Purdey team has been working on a special new gun to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Purdey-Woodward – which launched discreetly at The World...

An exclusive set of Purdey Trigger Plate Over-and-Under 28-bore game guns, to celebrate 210 years of Purdey.

The British countryside through spring and summer is nothing if not a study in contrast — soft light and sharp showers, quiet hedgerows and raucous rookeries, stillness punctuated by activity....

Celebrating craftsmanship and sharing skills is integral to Purdey and has been from the start; even James Purdey the Younger joined as an apprentice stockmaker in 1843, before inheriting the...

Following on from last week's pearls of wisdom from Tom and Jim Purdey (pictured above in the Long Room at Audley House in the early 1950s), here's the second instalment....

In 1934, Tom (pictured above) and Jim Purdey were approached by the publisher Philip Allan & Co. to contribute a volume to ‘The Sportsman’s Library’. The Shot Gun was published in...

Just as different parts of Britain and Ireland can be identified by terrain – the rocks, the soil composition, the quirks of industry and community shaped by rolling hills or...

A conversation with Giles Deacon might start with his upbringing in the countryside riding horses, but before you know it you’ll be taken down a path far from there, through...

The Sidelock Double Rifle is the tour de force of the gunmaker’s art; the ultimate combination of craftsmanship and artistry, combined with the painstaking regulation required to ensure that both...

Now the UK shooting season is on pause until August, it’s a good idea to think about the servicing and maintenance that will ensure your gun is at its best...