The company was famous more for its sporting goods than air rifles and pistols. That was a tiny part of its lengthy history and was soon abandoned. Bussey served an apprenticeship as a saddlemaker and the company was well known for its leather gun cases. It was a very large concern manufacturing all sorts from tennis rackets to cricket bats and many other weird and wonderful sporting devices which Mr Bussey had patented. The company even owned a willow farm to produce the cricket bat material. Bussey made a fortune and died in his rather grand house on the I-O -W. The Bussey building is still in existance.