Westley Richards & Co.

The Modern Best Gun: Westley Richards Over & Under

Commissioned in March 2024, this beautiful Westley Richards over & under represents the company’s current style for modern game guns. With the over & under now the preferred configuration for the majority of modern shooting men and women, a settled design was required to drive our latest model onto the market and assure it a long-term future.

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Sporting Leather in the Field

Westley Richards today is an increasingly multi-faceted business, with sporting guns and rifles at its heart and a wide range of sporting goods, field and adventure clothing and travel luggage ranges complementing the core products. The company has provided sportsmen with field essentials for over a century and sporting leather goods remain very important to us. Westley Richards’ customers can be assured that when seeking gun slips, cartridge bags or belts to take afield with their gun or rifle, the quality and character of every item will be as rigorously designed, constructed and tested as the fi****ms themselves.

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Glorious Twelfth

On 12th August 1773, the authorities in Britain first imposed, under The Game Act of that year, a defined season for grouse shooting. By protecting the birds during the breeding season, Parliament hoped to help sustain healthy levels of game and prevent over hunting. It was an early recognition that, in order to assure the continuity of the sport, conservation measures had to be taken to preserve the quarry.

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Westley Richards at the Scottish and English Game Fairs - 2026

The tradition of a gathering of the clans in some field adjacent to a stately pile somewhere in Britain has long been a highlight of the summer. It is somewhat ironic in the current climate of drought, parched fields and rivers depleted to a trickle after months without meaningful rain, to recall that the sad fate of the original CLA Game Fair was sealed by successive floods, which literally washed the event off the land two years in three.

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The New Loden Shooting Collection at Palé Hall

Westley Richards photographed its new Loden Shooting Collection at Palé Hall in North Wales, where sporting tradition and natural beauty blends with refined hospitality. It provided the ideal setting in which to capture the range alongside genuine shooters whose own appreciation for country pursuits brought an added authenticity to the collection.

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Westley Richards Decades - the 1820s

One musty old tome, now much degraded and disheveled remains on the shelf at Pritchett Street, very much looking its 202 years of age. Over two centuries; that is worth a moment to contemplate. The hand that put quill to ink pot and then carefully recorded sales details every day in the Westley Richards shop in 1824 would have done so in a world whose inhabitants could not have, in their wildest dreams, imagined the one in which we live today.

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The .410: A Bespoke Small-Bore Game Gun

The historical background of the .410 shotgun would not have made it an obvious choice as a serious game gun to Victorian eyes. However, modern shooters of small game birds have become very attracted to it. This beautiful, dainty, best-quality, Westley Richards ‘drop-lock’, with dimensions perfectly suited to the modern adult male is, perhaps, the highest form of the calibre currently available to buy. The term ‘calibre’ used here is correct. If expressed in ‘bore’, the .410 is actually a 67 ½-bore but nobody says that! For many years it was incorrectly marketed as a 36-bore, which it isn’t.

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Celebrating Young Craftspeople

Much is made today of uncertain futures, changing technologies and the challenges facing young people at the start of their working lives. Yet the British gun trade, now almost three centuries old, and the leather industry, older still, have shown remarkable resilience. For those entering these worlds with skill, dedication and ambition, they continue to offer deeply rewarding careers.

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Designed to blend effortlessly with the dust, heat, and golden hues of the African bush, this season’s safari collection continues the Westley Richards tradition of outfitting the modern adventurer in timeless, meticulously crafted apparel and leather travel goods.

In collaboration with Tito West and Royal African Safaris, featuring Alex Hunter

A Rare 7x57 Double Rifle

The 7mm Ma**er cartridge (also known as the 7x57 or the .275 Rigby) has seen a rise in appreciation over the last fifteen years or so. We usually find it chambered in a magazine rifle. So, this stunning new Westley Richards double is somewhat surprising.

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