Top makers and best quality guns

canvasback said:
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A lot of craftsmen made and make best work guns. Not always successful but I try to put more importance on the work than the name.
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Well, the experience of a bespoke gun is in the order, the fitting, the trying, the patterning and regulating, and most importantly the shooting. If money was no object and time immaterial, I'd have an extended UK holiday with as-required side trips from the whisky, historic site and museum tours back to the gun maker. Which one it is, frankly is less important than the final steps. I'd be sure to book a week of their most patient shooting instruction time. Better to unlearn a lifetime of casual North American shotgun habits than not appreciate the experience. Then more target shooting, and finally a few driven hunts. If my luggage home didn't include a couple of Barbour coats and waterproofs, some Wellies, and a maybe a Series III Land Rover, the trip would have been wasted. And, my body weight in numbers of bottles of Scotch whisky.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
Well, the experience of a bespoke gun is in the order, the fitting, the trying, the patterning and regulating, and most importantly the shooting. If money was no object and time immaterial, I'd have an extended UK holiday with as-required side trips from the whisky, historic site and museum tours back to the gun maker. Which one it is, frankly is less important than the final steps. I'd be sure to book a week of their most patient shooting instruction time. Better to unlearn a lifetime of casual North American shotgun habits than not appreciate the experience. Then more target shooting, and finally a few driven hunts. If my luggage home didn't include a couple of Barbour coats and waterproofs, some Wellies, and a maybe a Series III Land Rover, the trip would have been wasted. And, my body weight in numbers of bottles of Scotch whisky.
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Sounds like one heck of holiday...
- I wish I had the $$ to spare to come along!
 
sillymike said:
Sounds like one heck of holiday...
- I wish I had the $$ to spare to come along!
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I like you Mike. As I noted, if money was no object (and I had the zeros on the bank account to prove it), I probably would take a few friends along. This is after all a happy daydream.
 
I remember watching a few documentaries on shotgun fitting... It was quite interesting, and also labor intensive.

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sillymike said:
Beside the fact that Hauschka sure sounds like a troll (recent join date, and doesn't contribute anything meaningful)... I'd still be curious to see that Chinese artisans could come-up with, with a little training and the chance to do so...

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Ian McCollum's Forgotten Weapons is crowdfunding for a new book on Chinese Warlord pistols. Always interesting to see the variations and categories of work - and workmanship! The absolutely stunning thing is a few days ago he had $900,000 in pledges!
 
sillymike said:
Beside the fact that Hauschka sure sounds like a troll (recent join date, and doesn't contribute anything meaningful)... I'd still be curious to see that Chinese artisans could come-up with, with a little training and the chance to do so...

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China would be like any firearm manufacturing country. They build to the price point. At the moment, that price point produces junk.
 
maple_leaf_eh said:
Ian McCollum's Forgotten Weapons is crowdfunding for a new book on Chinese Warlord pistols. Always interesting to see the variations and categories of work - and workmanship! The absolutely stunning thing is a few days ago he had $900,000 in pledges!
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That's a lot of pledges but not entirely surprising given his popularity on the net. He's going to have a lot of work in front of him to research that book!
 
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