| 500grains |
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| 27/04/04 02:08 PM |
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Re: Butch Searcy's double rifles
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New cars, new TV's, new watches and new guns don't resell for more than their original prices. That's a fact of life.
If you are so sure of that, then call Lewis Drake and see what they sold that field grade for.
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I feel that a lot of people on these forums that don't know much about Doubles are being steered down a flower strewn path by some of the comments of posters. When I read posters who say that they have never handled a Double but want a Searcy I cringe at their lack of overall knowledge.
It is doing a person a terrible disservice to suggest purchasing a vintage rifle when he will probably end up with a ratty old junker that doesn't regulate and has a host of other problems. The quality of English guns is just not that great. I know of 2 instances where Holland & Holland rifles of recent production doubled in the field. And it is quite common for them to shoot off face after a couple hundred rounds. Overally their quality is probably on par with Triumph sports cars, but I prefer something better. No matter how nice the paint is on a triumph, we all know that it will spend an hour on the hoist for each hour on the road.
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I won't spend $5,000 plus on any rifle I can't sell for a profit. As I don't hunt professionally I will never get my money back in work or pleasure so I prefer to get it back in cash.
The rest of us are here because we enjoy hunting and shooting. If you are in this for the money, then you should have been a plumber because you would get rich much faster fixing pipes.