Possible he asked permission to take the photo, most of London Gun Makers Shotguns start at £100,000+
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."
Philip Percival
There’s a few very expensive firearms in New Zealand, I had $80ks worth in my hands the other day.
Boom, cough,cough,cough
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
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....
Intelligence has its limits, but it appears that Stupidity knows no bounds......
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.
And the significant brand premium or goodwill call it what you want, with those makes, that guarantees they hold value or increase over time.
@-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
I bet they won't have primary extraction issues though
Whatever the rationale for it that stock and forearm are beautiful and probably cost a fortune.
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