hometownhero
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Toon Town, Sk
Wouldn’t buy it. Ugly as sin
We'd all buy it, but who would hunt with it?
- Thread starter grelmar
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- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Back when I drove long haul and I #####ed to the owner about his ugly trucks, he told me, "Pretty don't haul freight." So, if you can afford to purchase a piece of artwork, you can afford to use it, frankly some dents and scratches would give that thing some character . . . just like the trucks I used to drive.
It would cost 2x to 3x that to get to Canada. The price was in Prague at the CZ store, and a few years ago when the dollar was trading a lot higher. Importing it would easily double or triple the end price.
Wandering around the store, looking at the guns there that we have over here, and doing the monetary conversion, virtually everything was 1/2 or less the price than what we pay over here.
To answer my own question:
Yah, I'd shoot it. I wouldn't bush hunt with it, but would field hunt with it.
BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
I wouldn't even buy it. Not my style.
pete dobinson
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Courtenay BC.
Not my cup of tea.
unstableryan
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- Location
- Beautiful Okanagan Valley
My buddy wanted to start hunting and wanted one good rifle. I found him a Sako black bear at a good deal. Still was almost that. He really likes it.
By the way, what is the fancy rifle chambered in?
By the way, what is the fancy rifle chambered in?
Cleaning up my hard drive I came across this pic from the CZ store in Prague I took a couple years ago on a trip:
The price at the time worked out to about $2K Cdn due to more favorable exchange rates. Largely irrelevant, because the inlaid Ivory would make it impossible to export from the Czech Republic. It's from their "Diamond" level from their in house custom shop.
Now, I can't think of a gunny who wouldn't love to have something of this level, but I've often wondered, would I be able to bring myself to shoot it?
Beautiful firearm! You asked, "hunt with it?" Damn right I would! I have a Blaser R8 that cost me $7,700 and hunted with it several times, and it will be in the field this autumn again with me. What cartridge is the rifle chambered for? Is it for sale or trade?
.375 H&H. It was for sale as of a few years ago in the CZ shop in Prague, but it had ivory inlay, so there is quite literally no legal way of getting it out of the Czech Republic.
CZ does engraved guns, not sure how to get hold of their custom shop. You'd have to go through one of the Canadian importers. Keep in mind "$2K Cdn." in Prague would not equate to a $2K gun landed in Canada. Between all the import paperwork for a single gun, markup, shipping, etc. etc. you'd be looking at least doubling, probably tripling the price.
That store almost made me cry. When I looked at the prices in Koruna and converted it to $Cdn, it was stunning how much less CZ guns were selling for in their home country. They had fully worked up CZ-75 race pistols, that were selling for less than what we would pay for a bog standard CZ-75.
Mumbles Marble Mouth
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Lower Mainland
But a basic LUX CZ 550 in Czech Republic sells for 22,000Kc which is roughly $1200CND. That’s around what they go for here.
Im with them. I wouldn't ever buy it, just not my style. However, if I got one for some reason I would either use it or sell it off immediately to someone who would appreciate such a piece.
I can't rationalize it, but I feel like elaborate engraving work like that looks best on old/antique guns...
Double guns, whether shotgun or rifle, OU or sxs, and single action revolvers all get a pass. Perhaps because of how old those designs in general are?
That's not to say I like all examples... the tiffany single action armies for instance, not my thing, but I do like the provinces of Canada series pythons..
