Shooting the King’s Woodwards….

King Carol's 20g Woodward O/U double barrel shotguns
King Carol’s 20g Woodward O/U double barrel shotguns, copyright Lewis Drake & Associates

I’m back! Thanks for bearing with me while I’ve been away. Work & life have been hectic lately – big projects & tight deadlines in the office, plus my wife and I just bought a house. But things are calming down now, so I have time for this…

King Carol II of Romania was not a good guy, but he did have excellent taste in double barrel shotguns. Lewis Drake & Associates just had the King’s pair of 20 gauge Woodward over-and-unders on the market for $195,000. Not a bad pair of shotguns.

I was poking around on the British Pathe website yesterday checking old videos and I stumbled across the footage below. Amazingly, it shows King Carol shooting the pair of 20g Woodwards you see above. Check it out now.

KING CAROL AND PRINCE MICHAEL OF RUMANIA, PHEASANT SHOOTING

KING CAROL AND PRINCE MICHAEL OF RUMANIA, PHEASANT SHOOTING
KING CAROL AND PRINCE MICHAEL OF RUMANIA, PHEASANT SHOOTING

 

The pic of the Woodwards is copyright Lewis Drake and Associates.

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