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John Dickson & Son attended the 'The Southern' 2022 at the end of April at Deep River Sporting Clays, NC. The event was blessed with a huge attendance coupled with great weather providing the perfect opportunity for double gun enthusiasts to get together. After being absent for two years, the team at John Dickson & Son were so pleased to be back at this great event and catch-up with friends, old and new.

The Scottish Round-Action Challenge was well attended and it was great to see so many Dickson and MacNaughton guns on the course, the event being won Mr. Googe, and he was very pleased to be taking our beautiful trophy home.  

The Dickson Owners Club gathering had a wonderful turn out, with members bringing their assortment of Dickson and MacNaughton guns and indulging in some fine whisky and elevenses, hosted by our friends at Delaney & Sons.

Blast from the Past

Dickson's Managing Director, J-P Daeschler, had a sensational surprise during The Southern, after a kind old gentleman named 'Mal' had travelled over three days from south Texas to bring his guns to John Dickson & Son at the show. Opening one of the cases revealed a beautiful hammer gun by John Dickson & Son No. 264X, which J-P immediately recognised as one of the guns he was responsible for renovating back in 1988, when he started out in the gun trade in Aberdeen, Scotland.

'I remember acquiring the gun from a farmer in Fraserburgh, it was a rusted farm gun, but we managed get most of the pits out and it passed nitro proof. The stock and fore-end managed to clean up and a few new pins were made. I told Mal that the steel butt plate was rusted solid on and I soaked it in petrol for two days, the pins finally coming out and revealing a perfectly bone dry centre and inscribed in pencil  the name of the stocker and the year 1866, the year the gun was made. The gun was subsequently sold to a gentleman in the USA and through the same shooting club membership, eventually sold the gun to Mal. Coming full circle now, a gun I have not seen for 34 years and back in my hands.'

Mal is retiring from shooting and selling his Dickson hammer gun, you can find out more about this gun here

'My Guns' with Simon Reinhold

Dickson Ambassador, Simon Reinhold shares his favorite guns in the latest installment on the TGS Outdoors YouTube channel. We already know Simon's passion for Scottish guns so he did not need an excuse to show case one of his favorites, a magnificent Dickson hammer gun from 1870. To view the clip, please click here