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Huvius
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Re: Oh those ubiquitous H&H 8bores!
      04/05/09 01:18 AM

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From what I remember, a Greener 8-bore double rifle was £20 or something, the equivalent of £5000 today I think I worked it out at.




You may have just disproved your own argument.
There is a measure of relativity which has to be used when comparing wages/expenses from one era to another.
Let's say that that Greener cost 20GBP which converts to $5K in today's dollars.
If 20GBP was roughly the wages earned for a certain period of work, would $5K be equivalent today?
Very doubtful.
You are expecting a handmade big bore double to cost 10% of the average income in today's dollars!
In the 1880's, that greener was likely to cost as much or more than an average wage earners annual pay - and that was at 10hrs/day for 300 days per year!
Show me an English maker willing to build you a high quality 8bore double rifle today for under $40K! They simply cannot...

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* Oh those ubiquitous H&H 8bores! Huvius 02/05/09 04:09 AM
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. * * Re: Oh those ubiquitous H&H 8bores! empirevr   03/05/09 06:53 AM
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. * * Re: Oh those ubiquitous H&H 8bores! Huvius   04/05/09 01:18 AM
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. * * Re: Oh those ubiquitous H&H 8bores! DarylS   20/05/09 03:15 AM
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. * * Re: Oh those ubiquitous H&H 8bores! DarylS   21/05/09 02:04 AM
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. * * Re: Oh those ubiquitous H&H 8bores! gatsby   03/05/09 09:05 AM
. * * Re: Oh those ubiquitous H&H 8bores! DarylS   03/05/09 11:15 AM
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