Lightweight Rain Jackets

Rain rain go away!  Well it's midsummer and it feels as though we should be talking about summer days on the river, pigeon shooting over rape and ambushing rabbits at dusk.  Instead its been a trial to stay cheerful after deluge after deluge has swept the country.  Even the dog has looked up with pleading eyes asking if I am really sure I want to go out for a walk when the rain is bouncing down.

The only thing that makes life bearable is a decent lightweight waterproof!

New in we have a jacket from Browning - full of features, like a good sized game pocket, but best of all for the summer we are having are the internal carrying straps - IF the sun comes out you can slip the straps on like a rucksack and slip the jacket off staying nice a cool!

Ridgeline from New Zealand know a thing or two about rain.  Their super value Mallard jacket is just right for stowing away in a pack and if you are in serious weather then we thing that the Ridgeline Monsoon and Roar jackets can't be beat.

Seeland's lightweights are popular too - especially the Lingfield.

We have a good selection of Seeland waterproof trousers too.

Now there's no excuse for not exercising the dog!

The New Browning 725.

John Moses Browning is widely regarded as the father of the over and under shotgun in its modern form.  The Browning Superposed.  Yes English manufacturers had made over and unders, but they had also built three barrel and four barrel shotguns!  Browning developed an over and under shotgun that could be mass produced to a high quality featuring a very strong lock up with a full width hinge pin.

The Browning 425 and 525 went on to be legendary guns in their own right.  Both guns had the distinctive 'deep' Browning action.

The new 725 has a much shallower action - it used to be that you suited Beretta or a Browning.  The fit of the gun being dominated by the depth of the action, but now with the 725 you get the full strength of the Browning action with its full width hinge pin that sits somewhere in-between the two.

Yes there's a raft of new features on the 725, the most notable being the choke tubes which now feature a brass ring, the aim of which is to provide a gas proof seal in the barrel to reduce fouling and increase strength.  The means the barrel ends don't flare out and keeps weight down at the barrel ends.

For an american designed gun the 725 has a great trigger too - the 'firelight' system.  Light and crisp with 3 adjustment points the 'firelight' is a mechanical trigger that does not rely on recoil to set the second barrel.

We have the game and the clay busting sporter in stock.  Come and shoulder one and see how the 725 fits.

You may have gathered that we like this new generation of Brownings - we're not alone Mike Yardley likes it too!  See his review here

Mike's YouTube video too