Please console me
- Thread starter Win/64
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Ya, gotta like those guns. Of course they keep the 'Presentation Grade' guns for the website pictures. No one can really afford those ones... Even if you could, it would (almost) be a shame to take them out of the safe and subject them to potential damage.
Actually the problem isn't flying pieces. It's other shooters bumping into your gun when it's on the rack. I have a nice ding in a Perazzi stock courtesy of a fellow shooter. Stuff happens but the ding happened the first day I had the gun outI would be more worried about flying pieces taking chunks out of the wood more than I would worry about the rain. It's fairly easy to dry and lubricate, but filling chunks of that wood would be difficult.
Meh, they're just gussied up copies of the old Remington model 32.
Weren't there rumours of K-80's blowing up on the line? Of the four I have handled, all but one felt too front end heavy for my tastes. I have also witnessed shooters having difficulty with the mechanical trigger, failing to release it enough to reset it.
These guns are obviously worthless. As soon as everyone else realizes this, Krieghoff prices will plummet. (Then I will buy them all.
)
Sharptail
Weren't there rumours of K-80's blowing up on the line? Of the four I have handled, all but one felt too front end heavy for my tastes. I have also witnessed shooters having difficulty with the mechanical trigger, failing to release it enough to reset it.
These guns are obviously worthless. As soon as everyone else realizes this, Krieghoff prices will plummet. (Then I will buy them all.
)Sharptail
It's other shooters bumping into your gun when it's on the rack. I have a nice ding in a Perazzi stock courtesy of a fellow shooter. Stuff happens but the ding happened the first day I had the gun out
Good thing I found a Nice O/U for $500.
I don't have to worry about stuff like that. I can concentrate on my game while others worry about their expensive oars..
MauserMike
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Meh, they're just gussied up copies of the old Remington model 32.
Ya hear that Win/64 - close enough relation to the Rem 3200?
Meh, they're just gussied up copies of the old Remington model 32.
Of the four I have handled, all but one felt too front end heavy for my tastes.
I shoot with a guy who has a Rem 32. I'm having more of a problem getting a set of K80 bbls that are front heavy enough.
A relation in name only. When Remington dropped the 32 and Krieghoff took up production, some years later Remington introduced the 3200 with a similar name, locking system and general appearance but they are very different guns.Ya hear that Win/64 - close enough relation to the Rem 3200?
Sharptail is on the mark about the K80's handling. They are big, heavy guns. I shot trap with a Krieghoff Model 32 for a few years but wanted a gun with more dynamic handling for sporting clays.
But the guys who use K-guns for sporting do quite well with them and all that extra weight does help maintain swing momentum.
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MauserMike
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- SW Ontario
There are a couple version of the events. One has Krieghoff buying the rights to the Model 32 directly from Remington in the late 40's. The other is that it was Hal DuPont who owned rights to the Model 32 as a result of his family (DuPont of chemical fame) buying a piece of Remington in the 30's. This version has Hal Dupont going to Europe in the 50's to find a maker for the Model 32 because Remington had stopped production during the war.
The original Model 32 was designed by Crawford Loomis based on top sliding lock from a French designer (Didier?). I'm not sure if Valmet every owned the patents to the Model 32 although they did build a gun with a similar top lock design.
I don't worry about rain on my Krieghoff cause that is what gun oil is for.
I don't worry about chunks of target hitting it cause I'll put my face in front of my gun if I have to ......that is what stitches and doctors are for !
I'll heal and I ain't pretty anyway.English walnut does not heal at all. It is one of the poor qualities of select grade walnut.
The day I can't handle the weight of a Krieghoff I'll shoot one of my nickle plated Rem 58's or use my daughters Browning Citori. Alterately quilting lessons are available at a local college night course. Ha Ha !
Nah I'll shoot a Rem 58 or a Browning.
Play Safe ! and good shooting !
I don't worry about chunks of target hitting it cause I'll put my face in front of my gun if I have to ......that is what stitches and doctors are for !
I'll heal and I ain't pretty anyway.English walnut does not heal at all. It is one of the poor qualities of select grade walnut.
The day I can't handle the weight of a Krieghoff I'll shoot one of my nickle plated Rem 58's or use my daughters Browning Citori. Alterately quilting lessons are available at a local college night course. Ha Ha !
Nah I'll shoot a Rem 58 or a Browning.
Play Safe ! and good shooting !
Here's a few pics of K80s I found in Larry Woo's trailer a while back;
http://picasaweb.google.com/bmcraeca/K80s/photo#s4997080918205464594
It was amazing to see so many of this quality all for sale in one place.
Brad.
http://picasaweb.google.com/bmcraeca/K80s/photo#s4997080918205464594
It was amazing to see so many of this quality all for sale in one place.
Brad.
Just a thought, even if you bought that, were you really going to shoot it that much.
lovely thing to put on the wall in a wood panelled library with stuff animal heads, a fire place, an old world globe that spins, leather arm chairs, where men can sit, talk like gentlemen, smoke fine cigars and sipped, aged cognac
that is the setting for it, so it's not the price of the gun, it's the must have setting pieces of decor that must come with it
(of course, you can't display on the wall, gun control and all)
i have the usual beretta, and citori, and quite happy with that level
here is a story if it helps to console
i have a rem express, but really wanted a rem 870 wingsmaster, so i went to wholesale sports in saskatoon. this is not a regular stock item here.
they had one in, and i pay $729 plus taxes yesterday, $400 more than the express model with fiberboard for stock, and jiffy marker black finish
the wood grain on the wingmaster was so georgeous, i said to the clerks "damn, it's too good for ducks" they agreed
(when my children were small, and they won't eat something, i tell them it's too good for kids anyway)
closing thought, there are no consolation prizes, suck it up LOL
lovely thing to put on the wall in a wood panelled library with stuff animal heads, a fire place, an old world globe that spins, leather arm chairs, where men can sit, talk like gentlemen, smoke fine cigars and sipped, aged cognac
that is the setting for it, so it's not the price of the gun, it's the must have setting pieces of decor that must come with it
(of course, you can't display on the wall, gun control and all)
i have the usual beretta, and citori, and quite happy with that level
here is a story if it helps to console
i have a rem express, but really wanted a rem 870 wingsmaster, so i went to wholesale sports in saskatoon. this is not a regular stock item here.
they had one in, and i pay $729 plus taxes yesterday, $400 more than the express model with fiberboard for stock, and jiffy marker black finish
the wood grain on the wingmaster was so georgeous, i said to the clerks "damn, it's too good for ducks" they agreed
(when my children were small, and they won't eat something, i tell them it's too good for kids anyway)
closing thought, there are no consolation prizes, suck it up LOL
