| 500grains |
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| 04/03/05 03:13 AM |
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Re: searcy's doubles
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In reply to:
Anyone who pays "3 or 4 times as much for some old piece of Pommie shit" is indeed a fool, however only a bigger fool would contend that because a gun is pommie, and old, it must be sh!t! Someone who acquires a sound Wilkes/Scott/Jeffery et al for the same money is probably a little smarter than you
...give them credit for!
Marraki,
There are sound vintage British rifles.
And there are a lot of pommie pieces of shot floating around too. Forumites participating here at nitroexpress.com even urge potential buyers of vintage British doubles to either educate themselves on how to evaluate the condition of such a rifle, or take it to a double rifle expert for evaluation before purchase. Why? To avoid buying a defective piece that is off face, out of regulation, has wood-rot, excessively worn or pitted bores, is not original, etc.
That is not to say there are not fine British guns out there. But I have seen quite a few of them that are crap in addition to the nice ones.