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Ladies and gentlemen,
I am just back from a buisness trip to Great Britain, Somerset, Bath Spa. Our meeting ended early and i took a walk down town.

I was very suprised to find that the gun & rifle maker George Gibbs was still in buisness (togheter with it's new owner the gun and riflemaker I M Crudgington.)

They had a very nice and well built .505 Gibbs on display.

They have the rests of the record books in the shop, but most of the records was destroyed by a German direct bomb hit during WW II when the company was located in Bristol.

Anybody here that knows anything more about the Gibbs firm of today?

Husky
 
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Where are they located now, address?
 
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They are my local gun shop.

I M Crudgington (another old established English maker)
inc Geo Gibbs Gun & Rifle Makers
37 Broad Street
Bath
Somerset
BA1 5LP
UK

+44 1225 464928
 
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Deerdogs,
Your local gunshop -lucky you!
They had some very nice Holland 6 Holland etc shoot guns for as i understand it reasonable prices!

Do you know if they still make doubles to order? Is the gunmakers as good nowadays as one can expect from a name like George Gibbs...?

The man in the gun shop told me that it was some "Scottish" firm that make the cases for the .505 Gibbs -do you know who?

As i understand it Norma just might start to make cases for the .505 Gibbs which make me to see the light in the tunnel

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I am planning a trip to Bath soon so I will see if I can find out.

Nice town eh?
 
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