About the Author

Diggory Hadoke was born in Hereford in 1967. He has been
obsessed with British sporting guns since childhood.

He is a long-standing contributor to: Shooting Times, Sporting Shooter, Fieldsports Journal, Gun Trade News, Rifle Shooter, Sports Afield, The Double Gun Journal and several overseas titles. He makes regular television appearances as both a gun
expert and hunting advocate.

Diggory is the author of three books: Vintage Guns, originally published by Merlin Unwin Books in 2007, The British Boxlock Gun & Rifle (2012) and Hammer Guns in Theory &
Practice (2016).

After two decades in London, Diggory now lives with his family,
near Ludlow, in rural Shropshire, from where he manages Vintage Guns Ltd and edits the digital magazine The Vintage Gun Journal.