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Webley & Scott Kilworth £1,999

OUR VERDICT

Webley & Scott has just launched two new side-by-side shotguns. There is the Imperial — a case-hardened, sideplated boxlock in a single trigger with a grade 3.5 Prince of Wales stock that retails at £2,350 — and then there is the gun we are looking at today, the Kilworth.

The Kilworth retails at just under £2,000, putting it at the more affordable part of the new side-by-side market. As soon as you open the softshell case, you might think that this gun is pretty unexotic to the eye. This, to me, is a big tick because at entry price points

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