I remember my father talking to a client once and saying to him that although engraving was a nice thing to have on a gun it didn’t add to the way the gun performed. The client disagreed with him saying that if anyone owned a nice hand engraved gun it actually made them shoot better because they didn’t want to look foolish on the shooting field; in other words they’d up their game to be able to shoot to the quality of the gun rather than have a top quality gun, miss the target and look like a twit.
Marcus Hunt, referring to his father, master engraver Ken Hunt
