For the coming season alongside some new styles, Westley Richards has introduced smart updates of our best-loved staples of safari, with all-new performance fabrics and colours. LINEN SELOUS SAFARI JACKET This season, our signature safari jacket is 100% linen, making it lighter, softer and more breathable, while giving it a slightly thicker feel. This four patch-pocket favourite; a staple with travellers heading for the equator, is packed with small details. The cut complements the natural linen and creates a discerning jacket that immediately softens into a comfortable adventurer’s top layer ..read more

Our build time is usually a degree longer than 24 months but on this occasion we agreed to rise to a challenge and got to work on Serial Number 20469. It was destined to be a classic interpretation of our best known sporting gun; the 1897 hand-detachable lock, patented here by our very own Leslie B. Taylor. The specifications will be very familiar to anyone cognisant of 20th century sporting shotgun style. This is a 12-bore with 29" steel, chopper-lump barrels, a concave rib, which is traditional for game shooting, two triggers and full-coverage, traditional scroll engraving with colour-case ..read more

The earned funds enable villages to build infrastructure while a new environmental sensibility has reduced human-wildlife conflict and allowed predators such as snow leopards to thrive again. Westley Richards brings you this story with the help of our friends at Conservation Frontlines. Muhammad Shahim Khan is a 22-year-old native of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. Shahim’s grandfather, Mirzada Shah Khan, was the first to outfit foreign hunters in Gilgit-Baltistan, and the family business, Himalaya Nature Tours, founded in 1986, continues today; it also offers hiking and trek ..read more

At Westley Richards, we traditionally listed the ‘Modele de Grand Luxe’ as a higher level of finish in which ‘the artist is able to give the fullest play to his gifts, with results which appeal to the most cultivated taste’, according to our 1931 catalogue. At one establishment, a gunmakers’ ‘best’ work may not equal the best work of another. Times, change, tastes change, materials change and processes change. At Westley Richards we still strive to push the boundaries of what we consider ‘best’ work. The Finishing Shop is where it all comes together. The finish applied to every facet of our n ..read more

The London-born son of an English army officer, Stewart Granger studied at drama college in England, then started working as a film actor in 1933. During the Second World War he served with the Gordon Highlanders and the Black Watch, but was invalided out in 1942. Granger returned to acting and became a bona fide star with the 1943 film The Man in Grey. He moved to Hollywood in 1949, and was cast as Allan Quatermain in the film of Sir Rider Haggard's 1885 adventure novel King Solomon’s Mines; and so began a twenty-year career as a Hollywood leading man – Granger became a US citizen i ..read more

James Sutherland may not be well known to the general public today but to hunters of dangerous game in early twentieth century Africa, he was something of a legend. Sutherland was a Scot, born in Stornoway in 1872. Beginning his African adventures in 1904, in German East Africa, he rose to the rank of Captain in the Nyasaland Field Force during the First World War. Along the way he was awarded the Legion d’Honneur by the French, the Iron Cross by the Germans and a Mention in Dispatches by the British! He survived the war, despite being shot in the abdomen by a German sniper, and then resumed ..read more

Serial number 43697 is just such a build. This is the 'best' modern version of a pre-war Mauser action .318 Accelerated Express that we can make. By 'best', we don't mean 'fancy' or 'exhibition grade'. This is a hunting rifle and is made for test primary purpose. It just happens to be the best version of a hunting rifle we can construct. It may lack ostentation but it wants for nothing. For inspiration we need look no further than our pre-Great War catalogue, which describes and illustrates a .318 Accelerated Express Magazine Rifle, declaring it; 'The world's most popular medium bore rifle inv ..read more

The transfer to khaki drill from scarlet wool tunics was partly an acknowledgement of the benefits of camouflage to a fighting force not acting en-masse, in drilled ranks. As camouflage has changed in style and hue over the decades, so too has the cloth produced by British Millerain for a range of outdoor applications. The Bishop Bag in British Millerain Camo The company, now under its sixth generation of management, is the original manufacturer of waxed cotton textiles. Based in Lancashire, British Millerain now produces a range of tough outdoor fabrics, ideally suited to the luggage an outf ..read more

Having reportedly made less than 500 double rifles in the firm’s long, illustrious history, this is a relatively rare item and a very nice, very practical example of a Purdey double rifle. Based on Beesley’s patented self-opening action made famous by Purdey’s, the hammerless, back-action sidelock has a strap over comb, clipped fences, and Purdey’s distinctive bolstered action body and a rib-extension third faster. The rifle also features bolted manual safety, disk set strikers, gold lined cocking indicators two triggers the front one being articulated, and a rolled guard-bow for the right-han ..read more

We have a fine selection of pre-owned Westley Richards shotguns currently for sale at the U.S. Agency that are excellent examples of Westley’s gunmaking over the centuries. The first is a Westley Richards 12g Highest Quality Hand Detachable Lock Shotgun completed in 1929. Westley's best quality guns with game scene engraving were listed in the 1912 catalog as the Model De Luxe but by the 1928 catalog it is labeled the "Highest" Quality. This gun also  features Westley Richards' ejectors and patent One Trigger. As was popular during th ..read more