First I'd like to note I wasn’t recommending that anyone buy this gun. It merely seemed like it was a Cheap DR. I thought someone might be interested.

The out of proof thing we hit on before. It's not the end of the world. As I've said before I'd be willing to bet that very few people send a gun back after it's been re-jointed. Yet any gun that was worked on this way is out of proof. Now granted this looks to be much larger scale of work but out of proof is only one of many things that should be considered.

Second I've never seen any of the Fabarm u/o for sale here. The Baikal's aren't even close to what I'd call quality. Plus they are u/o as well. I didn't even see a sxs on Fabarms webpage. I'd be interested in a new made double sxs for $3,300.

While the Chapuis is a nice rifle, lets face it $5,000 is too much to spend for a gun for a lot of people. I basically work on an Ambulance everyday. Have for the last 15 years. I make $35,000 a year. For the area I live that is high pay for my job. It's sad that people aren’t willing to pay those who go out and save lives daily more than they are willing to pay a guy to come and unclog their toilet. That’s just the way things are, I do my job because I love doing it. However, to me $5,000 is a lot of money.

I know this grade of rifle isn't your or most people's forte' here on the site. I love looking at the rifles you guy's share with us, but in reality there will never be anything like that in my future. So the cheaper rifles or homebuilts are all I can manage. Thus why I was trying to share this with anyone else out there who is in the same circumstances I'm in. I thought maybe that someone else might be able to get into their first and possibly only DR for this amount of money.

Please don't take this as a personal attack against anyone. I'm just trying to explain my thoughts and reasons for posting. I'm glad there are people out there who can afford to keep the old treasures in good condition and can afford to commission new DR's so future generations possibly have more old treasures. I just wanted to make it clear that $5,000 is a large amount of money to some. In fact the $1,800 difference from this rifle to a new Chapuis is a lot of money to some.

I guess I should just go back to lurking as I've been thoroughly outclassed.

Bill