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James Bond's new double rifle - the .500 Nitro Express by Anderson Wheeler - YouTube
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There is a really good page on Wikipedia,
which exhaustively lists every firearm James
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Bond has ever used.
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It's a roll call of groovy guns from the SPAS-12
through the Dragunov, Glock, and Heckler & Koch
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to the better known Uzi and AK47.
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There is only one sporting gun, however - the
Holland & Holland Royal used in the film Moonraker.
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But now there's another.
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And I am in London to meet its creator.
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Stuart that is probably the best advertising
you could get in the world isn't it?
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I think we were very, very lucky to be featured
in the Bond film.
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It is one of those things you never really
expect it to happen, I mean watching Bond
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when I was younger and then suddenly.
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I never even dreamed ever to have a gun in
a Bond film.
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It is incredibly exciting and at times I still
have to pinch myself a bit about things.
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We will see, I haven't seen the movie yet.
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From what I understand it is used for a long
duration during it when he is defending Skyfall
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itself which is his father's estate.
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So it is going to be really exciting and I
look forward to seeing it on the big screen.
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Now come on you must have paid them a couple
million 拢 to get the rifle in there.
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Absolutely 3 to 4 million.
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No actually what happened was, again we were
very lucky.
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One of the armourers came to the store.
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He was looking around Mayfair because obviously
there are Purdys, Hollands, William Evans,
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William & Son, Beretta.
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So there are number of gun makers here and
they came by and they were looking around
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and said do you do double rifles, we said
we did.
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One of the gentlemen came down and had a look,
went back and had a few more meetings with
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a few other people and eventually they came
through and said we would be really interested
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in doing some work with that.
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There is no other way to put it that is what
happened really.
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Did you feel like you were being cast.
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I don't know whether I felt like I had been
cast, but it was definitely, I don't know
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what I felt.
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It was more let's wait and see if it actually
happens first.
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I think that is what it came down to and when
Greg Williams book Skyfall, Bond on Set, which
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is the filming of Skyfall came out and there
is Daniel Craig sitting on the front cover
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holding the 500 Nitro next to an Aston Martin
DB5 that was very exciting and from that it
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is .. we have had a lot of people enquiring.
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A lot of people knew about us before, but
we have been known more as the professional's
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choice.
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We make guns to be used in the field.
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These are guns that if you have got a professional
hunting career you want something that is
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reliable and accurate.
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That has been our market so far.
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But I think the Bond film brought to a lot
of people's attention the fact that we are
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out there, we are affordable and at the same
time we do have a reliable gun on the market.
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So, Bond is back.
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Skyfall is in cinemas now.
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The story goes that the much-loved gun expert
and Shooting Times columnist Geoffrey Boothroyd
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wrote to Ian Fleming in the 1950s suggesting
that the Beretta 418 Bond had in Dr No was
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a bit flimsy and suggesting the Smith & Wesson
Centennial Airweight as long as it came with
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the Berns Martin triple draw holster.
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Fleming, who had little interest in guns,
said yes but should Bond use an automatic?
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Boothroyd reluctantly suggested the super-light
Walther Polizeipistole Kurz, originally built
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in 1929, and now known universally as the
Walther PPK.
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Imagine Geoffrey's horror when Bond turned
up in From Russia with Love with a Walther
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PPK drawn from a Berns-Martin holster.
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However, imagine his delight when he learned
that Q's real name is Major Boothroyd.
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If you are watching this on YouTube, click
on the link to see the trailer for Skyfall.
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And if you want to have a look at some delicious
double rifles, go to AndersonWheeler.co.uk
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The British Government may not have a love
affair with guns, but Bond does and Bond works
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for the British Government.
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