Raker LTD

16/07/2025

Apologies if you were planning to visit us this afternoon but due to staff cover we will only be open until 2:45 today and resuming normal hours tomorrow.

Thank you

16 July 2025

16/04/2025

Opening hours over the Easter weekend

Friday - closed
Saturday- 9-5
Sunday - closed as usual
Monday- closed as usual

12/04/2025

FREE DEER STALK with any new Weatherby from any dealer at the Stalking Show in one months time!
Simply email your receipt to [email protected] and we’ll book you in for a morning or afternoon session in Hampshire (1 animal included in offer).

Don’t worry Stockists! - if you’re not coming but your customers want to attend the show and order from you then we’ll honour the offer as long as it’s ordered that weekend and the customer has a valid ticket for !

T&C’s apply.

17/11/2024

23/05/2024

Repurposing the classic Kreighoff Model 32 - can this shotgun meet the demands of today’s sporting clay shooter? Find one, and you will be mightily impressed at what this classic gun can offer

https://www.glenziersporting.co.uk/blog/post/21933/kreighoff-model-32-repurposing-a-classic/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAab0CJE_6GL05q1WvhNv2kc01xVrKMRiB3G-fiXKnJAPYD8e7bBJymAaaxo_aem_AdDrSHhBPcjXfkXHpVk_W3iTKlTB85nE8PoscZa2-jWMFqlOfQLyNW9KXSdVPMpCZPm5Hd5qa5NFXF7ctgHjK9jm

08/04/2024

Amongst the turmoil of Coxy leaving us back in September 2021 his beloved Beretta DT10L was put into long term storage. As many of you will know, shooting was what Coxy did; one way or another the spo

06/05/2023

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧Today being coronation day we will be closing at noon 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

God save the King

25/03/2023

Universal on all guns, yet rarely given much consideration, triggers can matter far more than you think. A legitimate part in fitting the whole shotgun, the appropriate trigger set up can convey a wor

16/01/2023

Something rather special into the ground this morning.

Beretta 626 side-by-side - a special edition model finished by the manufacturer to commemorate the 1985 Game Fair at Warwick Castle.

Custom stocked to the original owner, this pretty piece sports some clever fitting work.

Bend reduced, comb angle flattened ensures patterns strike high up to the mark. But always the advantage in a gun dedicated to the art and the business of driven game.

Single trigger - probably the most reliable ever. First and second pull weights still perfect.

A quarter-pistol grip here is more deliberately and purposely tapered, broadening upwards from a squared-off cap; sided flat with zero ‘waisting’.

The stocker intends for the hand to move under  recoil.

Shaping progressively ‘binds’ and tightens to the rear hand under the ‘predictable’ influences of recoil. More-so still with barrel angles typically high; shoulder contact unavoidably compromised, progressively ‘failing’.

This clearly the product - I suspect one of Beretta’s own - of a stocker sublime to their craft and art.

Some time ago the great Jim Evans, S.R. Jeffery’s (of Guildford) Master Gunsmith, talked to me of a gun’s innate ability to ‘bump’ to where you needed it to be … “and that’s mainly in the stocking, lad” … “get it right and the gun’s almost there waiting for you.”

In this Beretta 626 I am reminded of you this morning Mr Evans, thankful to all your knowledge.

I get what you mean precisely. And to experience this so very directly is quite a thing I have to say.

Mike Smith

21/12/2022