hello.
It’s possible and highly probable the seller bought it used and did just own it a few months. Sometimes you can look at a members previous postings and get a feel for how long he has had a particular gun if they are a regular poster. Another method to check the ballpark age of a bottle gun is look at the bottle manufacture date on bottle. But…regardless I wouldn’t worry too much about the gun’s age as long as it looks reasonably well cared for. Brocock’s are stout guns, I shoot my XR regularly in field target and it has seen a lot of pellets.
I got to thinking more about your posts on this (uh oh). The gun was made during the worst period of COVID shutdowns and slowdowns. Several scenarios could explain what happened before you bought the gun:
Hi Beerthief (love the name!) sorry for the lateness of my reply to this thread. email to the company does total a couple of hundred a day, every day including weekends, which falls to really 5 people depending on a choice of speciality. That person has to then find time to answer mixed in with their normal work. the level of knowledge needed to reply to these special questions means hiring someone to answer all email is pointless as all they can do is pass the questions onto more experienced staff achieving another level of bureaucracy, though we recently hired Olivia who does help with routing questions and will answer something like a serial number question and is getting more experienced with the more normal questions (if there is such a thing).
