The most expensive gun I have ever shot!

For anyone wondering, the current spot range FX rate would put that 145,000 pounds for the O/U around $250,000 Cdn. So those two guns he's handling and shooting are $500,000 of guns.

Oops, didn't factor in import duties and HST. Trudeau needs his cut. Those two expenses probably add at least another $100,000 to the cost of the two guns. Damn, I'll have to get just one. Laugh2
 
When I hit the 70 mil lotto max you can come with me canvasback to all the big London makers and Italians and Spanish and German makers. I'd set my daughter up with 50 mil and blow thru 10 mil on guns and cars and live off the interest of the remaining 10 mil

Be good times
 
brybenn said:
When I hit the 70 mil lotto max you can come with me canvasback to all the big London makers and Italians and Spanish and German makers. I'd set my daughter up with 50 mil and blow thru 10 mil on guns and cars and live off the interest of the remaining 10 mil

Be good times
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Deal! I'll do the same.

When it does hit $70 million, it's fun to imagine what I'd do. But the older i get the more i conclude, in current dollars, more than $10 million to my son will not likely be good for him and even that amount may be too high. Besides, there is a good chance that when his mother dies, he'll get a figure in that range anyway. And I don't have much use for more than $10 million myself. (I think about $2 million would go to buying up and restoring every Lindner made Diamond Daly I could find!) So I like to think I'd take that 50 million and go find the 50 people I have met in my life who got the $hitty end of the stick from life, in one way or another, and just drop $1 million on them. I know it's utterly random but so would be me winning the $70 mil. I'd rather spread the joy around to people I know who could use some.
 
I’ve always had the opinion that a $70 million jackpot should have 70 winners. It would benefit more people and more of the money would go back into the economy.
Back to the topic of discussion, I have had the opportunity to shoot a Purdey o/u and frankly it didn’t feel much different than the Caesar guerini summit that I had just put down. The fit and finish was considerably different though.
 
I have yet to shoot a Purdy ou but I've had the opportunity to try a sxs from them as well as a Holland. My old Baikal just can't compare in any dimension other than the fact it's got 2 barrels beside each other and 2 triggers
 
I've been lucky enough to shoot a good number of high quality SxS. Mostly of the game gun variety. I'm also lucky enough to have a 1933 Purdey assisted opener game gun in my safe, which I shoot with some regularity on nice days. It's a 12 gauge and it weighs 6 pounds, 3 oz. It's also in very fine original condition except the stock has been refinished with a classic oil finish in the English tradition. The craftsmanship is perfect and I can't imagine a better gun for the purpose for which it was built.

Would a new one be worth $250,000 to me. The easy answer is no. I know too much about SxS and I know I can find a perfect (for me) London Best for a fifth of that price easily, if I wanted to add another to the stable. But I don't. I'm very happy with the one I have and my focus for new aquisitions are guns of similar quality that don't have the name brand that causes these astronomical prices.
 
In Arizona, there is a scrape yard full of
Land Rover's
Since they were purchased by the company
From India, quality control has been lacking
They are to expensive to fix in many cases
There is a few stories on the Net
 
can14 said:
In Arizona, there is a scrape yard full of
Land Rover's
Since they were purchased by the company
From India, quality control has been lacking
They are to expensive to fix in many cases
There is a few stories on the Net[/QUOT

No.. mostly because second hand owners are too broke to maintain them. OH look I can get a used Land Rover and look cool.". expensive " is what poors say.

We've owned a Velar a year now .. I'll never buy another North American vehicle in the same price range.

and my post was a jab at Purdy, since H and H offered a SV build with LR.
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Back in the late 60's I was working at a gun shop in Calgary owned by a very rich German... he came home from a trip with a brand new 20 gauge S x S by Purdy... I think it weighed about 5 pounds... what a beaut!

He wanted it stripped down and cleaned and lubricated... it was a brand new gun. It took a lot of persuasion to convince him it would take hours grinding screwdrivers to fit and in most likely hood screw heads would be damaged and the gun devalued all for naught...
 
Back in the day, occasionally one of the shooters at the club where I was a trap/skeet boy used to let me shoot a round of skeet with his Purdey 20 gauge SxS. It was a dream to shoot.
 
Something seems to have shaken up things between Jon's LGS outfit and Longthorne England, the custom gunmakers that were at least briefly married to LGS. At least I caught an announcement on one of the double gun pages on Facebook that said that Longthorne has signed onto some sort of association with Orvis and I thought that was interesting enough to follow up from the LGS side, but Longthorne seems to have disappeared from their webpage and what's more Jonny and LGS are now 'viewing by members only', or in other words they've gone behind a paywall. Oh well, there was entertainment and information there while it lasted but nothing worth paying for I'm afraid. Pity though.

Now to watch and see how Longthorne makes out with Orvis.
 
Big Bad said:
Something seems to have shaken up things between Jon's LGS outfit and Longthorne England, the custom gunmakers that were at least briefly married to LGS. At least I caught an announcement on one of the double gun pages on Facebook that said that Longthorne has signed onto some sort of association with Orvis and I thought that was interesting enough to follow up from the LGS side, but Longthorne seems to have disappeared from their webpage and what's more Jonny and LGS are now 'viewing by members only', or in other words they've gone behind a paywall. Oh well, there was entertainment and information there while it lasted but nothing worth paying for I'm afraid. Pity though.

Now to watch and see how Longthorne makes out with Orvis.
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Are you saying that TGS (that's the name of Jonny's gun shop) videos have disappeared? Because Jonny still refers to Longthorne as sponsors of the channel and has had JIm on a few recent videos as well.
 
BigUglyMan said:
Are you saying that TGS (that's the name of Jonny's gun shop) videos have disappeared? Because Jonny still refers to Longthorne as sponsors of the channel and has had JIm on a few recent videos as well.
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When I went to LGS after reading about the Orvis thing, I saw no mention of Longthorne but OTOH everything I did see was 'viewing with a membership only,' or as I said, it was all behind a pay wall. If Longthorne is still there for the lucky members, then that's not as big a change as I thought.
 
It seems to me that sometime in the last 6-12 months (?) Jonny made an announcement that the channel was leaving TGS (as a promotional vehicle) and he was setting up an independent (from TGS) channel for the videos.
 
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