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    Possible he asked permission to take the photo, most of London Gun Makers Shotguns start at £100,000+
    “I don’t care a damn about these people who can split a pea at three hundred yards. What I want to know about is how good he is on a charging buffalo at six feet."

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    There’s a few very expensive firearms in New Zealand, I had $80ks worth in my hands the other day.
    Boom, cough,cough,cough

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    it is a piece of art - but I wonder how useful - how long would that finish hold up in a real hunting situation - strip value of real quick I would think if one scratched that up
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    Quote Originally Posted by akaroa1 View Post
    Because the first rule of business is

    " the customer is always right even when they are wrong "
    The actual quote is supposed to be "The customer is always right in matters of taste" which definitely applies here...

    If I was a gunmaker with that level of skill that someone were to approach me and say I have $200k will you build me a that one in this calibre then I will say yes, not a problem...Its not my issue if he has no taste and if he wants hot pink penguins on the side , he gets them.....The fact that no one will ever pay that for it if he sells it is his problem for poor choices in life, but I suspect people in thse positions can afford poor choices....
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    I see your 200kNZD and raise you… some more

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    Difficult to see how that value can be arrived at from a piece of timber, a steel pipe, and a few bits of metalwork (scope aside)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bos View Post
    Difficult to see how that value can be arrived at from a piece of timber, a steel pipe, and a few bits of metalwork (scope aside)
    @Bos apart from paying extra for the name some of them, like the English old school jobbies like Purdey, H+H, Westley Richards etc, you pay for hours worked as well as fitting.
    There may be 2 months engraving, colour case hardening, gold inlay etc.
    Some of the actions are made and finished by hand, not all of it on a mill.
    Plus regulation if it's a double.
    And the extra cost of a 5000 dollar or more blank of wood.
    Hundreds if not thousands of man hours to make.

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    And the significant brand premium or goodwill call it what you want, with those makes, that guarantees they hold value or increase over time.
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    @-BW- did you visit all the London Gun Makers? If so which was your favourite?
    “I don’t care a damn about these people who can split a pea at three hundred yards. What I want to know about is how good he is on a charging buffalo at six feet."

    Philip Percival

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bos View Post
    Difficult to see how that value can be arrived at from a piece of timber, a steel pipe, and a few bits of metalwork (scope aside)
    Yup, and probably shoot no better if not worse than a bargain basement 6.5CM...

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    I bet they won't have primary extraction issues though

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    Quote Originally Posted by EmpireSafaris View Post
    @-BW- did you visit all the London Gun Makers? If so which was your favourite?
    So far only H&H, but I’m still planning to go to Rigby, and Purdey next time I’m in London in a week or so.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bos View Post
    Mate living in Dublin sent me this pic of this hand made rifle in 6.5 Creedmore
    Its made by "Henry Scherling". Has a price tag of 110,000 Euro so I googled this and we're talking $197,000 NZ .
    Wonder who owns the most expensive rifle in NZ, but then again, best to not say.

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    I love the no photos sign in the photo!...LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marty Henry View Post
    Double barreled with underlever, it doesn't look like a falling block rather a break action. Beautiful workmanship regardless.
    I reckon it just looks like a single barrel.. But with a double set trigger set up.
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    Whatever the rationale for it that stock and forearm are beautiful and probably cost a fortune.

 

 

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