Recently acquired a 12ga Purdey SxS. Until this purchase, I would classify what I have in, rifles, shotguns and handguns, as decent quality hunting and shooting firearms. What a friend of mine had, leans more toward exotic and pricey. My friend ended up in hospital with serious health issues where I stopped in to visit him on a number of occasions. Things, health wise, deterioriated to the point where he decided to go with the MAID as an end. On a couple of my visits, he asked if I was interested in any of his firearms. Him, being a left hander, kind of eliminated rifles and some of his shotguns. However, he did offer me his Purdey 12ga SxS, a couple of flats of ammo, an unused Purdey shotgun cleaning kit and a book titled Purdey's, The Guns And The Family. Far more than pricey than my other firearms but I plan to take it out for Ruff Grouse locally a few times a season,Very nice but far above my budget.
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Yes but the Purdey’s are real purdy too!I'm guessing that it would be Purdey that this thread is about.
Sorry for the loss of your friend. I've always found it can be tough to received something of great value at the passing of a friend or loved one but as you say you can make whatever it is a tribute to them.Recently acquired a 12ga Purdey SxS. Until this purchase, I would classify what I have in, rifles, shotguns and handguns, as decent quality hunting and shooting firearms. What a friend of mine had, leans more toward exotic and pricey. My friend ended up in hospital with serious health issues where I stopped in to visit him on a number of occasions. Things, health wise, deterioriated to the point where he decided to go with the MAID as an end. On a couple of my visits, he asked if I was interested in any of his firearms. Him, being a left hander, kind of eliminated rifles and some of his shotguns. However, he did offer me his Purdey 12ga SxS, a couple of flats of ammo, an unused Purdey shotgun cleaning kit and a book titled Purdey's, The Guns And The Family. Far more than pricey than my other firearms but I plan to take it out for Ruff Grouse locally a few times a season,and remember him when I do so.
In a way your friend still gets to go hunting thru you.Recently acquired a 12ga Purdey SxS. Until this purchase, I would classify what I have in, rifles, shotguns and handguns, as decent quality hunting and shooting firearms. What a friend of mine had, leans more toward exotic and pricey. My friend ended up in hospital with serious health issues where I stopped in to visit him on a number of occasions. Things, health wise, deterioriated to the point where he decided to go with the MAID as an end. On a couple of my visits, he asked if I was interested in any of his firearms. Him, being a left hander, kind of eliminated rifles and some of his shotguns. However, he did offer me his Purdey 12ga SxS, a couple of flats of ammo, an unused Purdey shotgun cleaning kit and a book titled Purdey's, The Guns And The Family. Far more than pricey than my other firearms but I plan to take it out for Ruff Grouse locally a few times a season,and remember him when I do so.