George Hoenig's rotary action rifle/shotgun...

Yep... that is pretty cool... the cylinderical ergonomics would take some getting used to... would be like shooting with a pool cue.
 
Prices for a 20, 28 ga. or .410 bore game gun start at $22,500 (approx. 6-6 1/4 lbs., 12 month delivery time), while the double rifle has a base price of $27,500 (add $2,000 for mag. cals. up to .450 NE), approx. 7 1/3 - 8 1/3 lbs. Combination guns also have a base price of $27,500. During 2009, George Hoenig introduced a four-barrel Vierling (20 ga.x20 ga., .223 Rem., and .22 LR barrels), which has a base price of $50,000. For more information, delivery time, and current pricing, please contact George Hoenig directly. from the Blue Book of Gun Values.

Very interesting and would be interesting to own one ...once I won the lottery.
5 per year, I am curious to the wait list for one?
Rob
 

Neat, gotta love innovation, even if only to be different as Bartledan points out without having to say so. I think it's quite beautiful, pity he didn't decide to make it a triple then there would be more academic justification for the design.

FLHTCUI said:
Prices for a 20, 28 ga. or .410 bore game gun start at $22,500 (approx. 6-6 1/4 lbs., 12 month delivery time), while the double rifle has a base price of $27,500 (add $2,000 for mag. cals. up to .450 NE), approx. 7 1/3 - 8 1/3 lbs. Combination guns also have a base price of $27,500. During 2009, George Hoenig introduced a four-barrel Vierling (20 ga.x20 ga., .223 Rem., and .22 LR barrels), which has a base price of $50,000. For more information, delivery time, and current pricing, please contact George Hoenig directly. from the Blue Book of Gun Values.

Very interesting and would be interesting to own one ...once I won the lottery.
5 per year, I am curious to the wait list for one?
Rob
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Sad fact is that is cheap(!) in the custom gun world, I'd have guessed well over $50,000.
 
Bartledan said:
Since you still have to regulate the barrels, I really have to wonder... why?

Zero advantages over a side by side or over/under break action, just more complicated.
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Do you wear a Timex or an Omega SeaMaster Professional?
Both tell time and the Timex is more accurate over the day to day Time Keeping Duty.
Some people like to tinker and others like to ...well show off.
Those guys are gun Nuts in that they have developed and are building cool guns, Yes?
Rob
 
I think it's cool....... but I see zero advantage over a regular double.........

For that money, inwoukd invest in a conventional double if that was what I wanted........
 
FLHTCUI said:
Do you wear a Timex or an Omega SeaMaster Professional?
Both tell time and the Timex is more accurate over the day to day Time Keeping Duty.
Some people like to tinker and others like to ...well show off.
Those guys are gun Nuts in that they have developed and are building cool guns, Yes?
Rob
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As it happens, I do wear an Omega Seamaster Professional. :)

I wear it because my mom managed to die without a will, and my stepfather took the whole kaboodle except a single life insurance policy that paid my brother and I $2500 each. I wanted to buy something I'd have and use for the rest of my life, and could pass on to one of my kids.

I don't wear a big wooden cuckoo clock with a solid gold spatula stuck on one side.

I don't think a pointless mechanism improves a fine double. Frippery is not refinement, and is nothing to be proud of... in my opinion, and mine only. You're bang on, there! :)
 
Superbrad said:
I think it's cool....... but I see zero advantage over a regular double.........

For that money, inwoukd invest in a conventional double if that was what I wanted........
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If your droppng that kind coin on such a niche gun like this, I don't think your the type of person that has choose one or the other :p Bet it carries nicely any which way you'd hang onto it.
 
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