Taking over from the venerable and highly respected 7000 model, the Miroku MK70 was an immediate success and is similar in many ways to the Browning B525 of the same era. Despite this, the jointing is all but invisible, an impressive feature in a production gun. The result is just as robust and reliable, but the process costs far less to complete. In this process the two barrel tubes are made separately before being forged into a separate breech block containing the lumps. For their new generation of guns Miroku invested heavily in new manufacturing equipment to make monobloc barrels. This is the time-honoured method used by English gunmakers to make strong and reliable barrels, although it comes at an increased cost.

Up until then barrels had been built on the principle of chopper lumps in which each barrel and lump was created from a single steel billet before being hard-soldered together to make up the completed barrel set. The Miroku MK70 is a good example of a new wave of shotguns that left the Miroku factory during the 1990s. There is nothing cheap or shoddy about them, and these early guns were so good that Browning soon came to an agreement with Miroku to produce firearms on their behalf. Miroku guns were once regarded as little more than cheap Brownings, a rather unfair comparison although early Miroku shotguns were very close copies of Browning designs. Many of Miroku’s products are manufactured on behalf of Browning with whom they have enjoyed a long and close relationship. Want to buy a single issue of Shooting Times, Sporting Gun or Airgun Shooter?.Choosing the right bullets for deer stalking.British deer: A guide to identifying the six species found here and where to stalk them.Clay pigeon shooting tips and terminology.Country hotels offering shooting facilities.How to choose the right cartridge for your shotgun.How to choose the perfect airgun pellets for your rifle.Issues with eye dominance when shooting: how to deal with them.Shotgun certificate – how to get one and how to renew one.How to get a firearm certificate in the UK.

Old miroku shotgun models