Gunshop

A family business for over 130 years !


1888
Edouard Vouzelaud opens his first shop on rue de la Bouverie in Brou, in the Eure-et-Loir region of France, selling guns, bicycles and providing locksmith services.

1912
Adolphe-Marcel Vouzelaud and his wife, Jeanne, take over, moving the shop to larger premises on the Place d’Armes in Brou.

1931
As business continues to grow, Adolphe-Marcel and Jeanne move again, this time to 8 place des Halles on the market square – where you’ll find us to this day.

1935
Adolphe-Marcel and Jeanne’s only son, Maurice, completes his training in Saint-Etienne and joins his parents in the family business, now devoted exclusively to guns and ammunition.

1947
Maurice takes up the reins, creating the first mobile shooting range facilities.

1950
The first fixed shooting range opens in Brou, with an on-site hunting school.

1963
Maurice's two sons, Alain and Hubert, join the family business – the fourth generation to do so. The Armurerie Vouzelaud company, in its present form, is founded.

1970
First distribution agreements: certain agricultural cooperatives are now licensed to sell Vouzelaud cartridges.

1974
A new shooting range is opened on the current site, covering 30 hectares on the outskirts of Brou, kitted out with the very best up-to-the-minute equipment.

1988
Vouzelaud celebrates 100 years in Brou! The existing workshops are gutted by fire, but the business stands strong, with a dedicated and devoted staff of 45. Facilities are rebuilt and the shop is extended: it takes more than a fire to destroy the fruit of decades of experience. Vouzelaud’s own range of guns, ammunition and hunting accessories continues to grow. Here’s to another hundred years!

1990
New cartridge manufacturing and storage facilities open in a new, bigger location next to the shooting range.

1991 et 2002
The arrival of the fifth generation, as Alain’s son Vincent and Hubert’s son Etienne join the team after extensive specialist training.

1995
The shooting complex continues to go from strength to strength, with the addition of big game facilities including moving targets and running boar.

2002
Vouzelaud registers a patent for a special counter-pressure wad system, allowing users to fire steel or similar pellet shot without risk to the gun barrel.

2003
Full refit and re-organization of the Vouzelaud store in Brou.

2009
Vouzelaud opens a new boutique store on the prestigious Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris: Vouzelaud Relais de Chasse.

2012
…and then there were three! Vouzelaud Aquitaine opens at Saint-André-de-Cubzac, providing a regional distribution centre for the whole of the south-west, built on our perennial values of service and tradition.

2017
A new high bird tower facility is installed at the Vouzelaud shooting range in Brou: at 42 metres high, it remains unique in France.