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... Good doubles SHOULD as they are far more an international market. International transaction costs are relatively modest compared with a $30,000 sell price plus buyers premium, and buyers able to afford agents. Major international buyers may also be able to hold in multiple countries of residence too.

Which leads me to a thought: someone could issue derivatives and offer hedging against 'stocks' of H&H Royal Grade doubles...

You would see 'double flight' as sovereign risk threatened assets, not just capital and head offices moving countries but the best gear may move earlier, signalling spring hunting or the turn of financial tides. Novels would be written, about elephant hunters raiding vaults in Nazi bunkers under Jersey to get a .600 Nitro for upcoming visits to Africa, and being foiled by doughty PETA activists persuading George Soros to ramp the price of the second-tier .577 BPE derivatives against the GBP.

H&H would quadruple in size as Russian and Qatari oil barons swap out oil futures for H&H .450/400 futures contracts...

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What a novel that would be!!

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It seems to me that the price of vintage doubles in the U.S. has gone up substantially in the past year. Has anyone else noticed the same?

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In the USA,the vintage doubles have gone up considerably, depending on chambering, and maker. This has nothing to do with the exchange rate, but more because of the fact that the quality vintage doubles supply is dwendeling fast. The double rifles that have gone up in the USA, because of the exchange rate and fuel costs makeing shipping, cost out the roof, are the new, and used modern made rifles. This IS because of the exchange rate,and shipping casts and the fact that there are quite a few more customers for usable double rifles for hunting today, than even three yrs ago, and even at the higher prices of the NEW/used doubles, they are still cheaper to buy than the ventage rifles, and are a safer buy for the relatively un-schooled guy who is new to this type of firearm.

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In 'normal' guns like Rugers, USD prices in the US would not respond to exchange rate shifts.

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In 'normal' guns like Rugers, USD prices in the US would not respond to exchange rate shifts.

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Not true, unfortunately. We have seen a marked increase in the price of guns and ammo in the last year, in large part due to the increased cost of materials. After all, metal is tied to an international price.

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Fladude, you are right, the market in metals and commodities is wildly different now from a US viewpoint. Producers used to write contracts for iron ore with the Japanese in USD as hedges against our AUD or the Yen falling, and very stable it was for a long time - by definition it was therefore stable for US consumers. Now that the USD has eased against everyone else, and world demand in general rising, metal prices have gone through the roof in USD terms - and its going to the Chinese mills. Energy costs are huge too, the more the metal is refined the more of that steel price is not iron but coal!

Thanks for the correction. It is quite a change for us to feel that prices are going up both here AND there. But after seeing how the US economy shrugged off the rust belt's 1980s under-response to Japan, I am sure that US human energy will adjust and overcome, short, medium or long-term.

I still fancy a Wilbur Smith novel about international trade in double-gun derivatives though...

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