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New ones, covered in the latest Rifleman.

If I were still able to carry and swing one, I would e scraping up the $5000.
 
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Very nice looking (and I'm sure it handles like a dream), but at $4999 a wee bit over my budget. Would like to see it do well in the marketplace.
 
I'm delighted to see an American firearms manufacturer offer something beautiful rather than tactical for a change. It gives me hope. I might have to sell a seldom used body part to get one of these.
 
I know next to nothing about doubles, but I read that too- and that is a great looking shotgun! But 5k for something to just shoot at birds with is a bit out of my league, especially when I have an auto and several pumps for this purpose. I know, I'm a savage and I don't get it.
 
When I was a teen in the 60's my Dad came home one night with two Fox Sterlingworths. One was a 12 gauge M/F with double triggers but was very heavy to carry in the field. The other was a 20 gauge Mod/IC with double triggers. It was a pleasure to carry in the field and I killed a couple of pheasants with it. Then I thought it would be fun to shoot a round of skeet with it. It barely weighed 5#. I rue the day I ever thought about that because it beat my shoulder mercilessly with no recoil pad.

Alas, back in the day, my Dad thought he needed to refinish ANY firearm to look as he perceived as new.

Too bad, and I don't know whatever happened to them as I enlisted in the USAF and spent the next 34 years in Alaska. Never saw them again.

Just my $.02 worth.

Jim
 
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Very nice looking (and I'm sure it handles like a dream), but at $4999 a wee bit over my budget. Would like to see it do well in the marketplace.
My sentiments exactly. I have bought running Harleys with titles for half the price of that gun.
 
New ones, covered in the latest Rifleman.

If I were still able to carry and swing one, I would e scraping up the $5000.

It's basically CSMC RBL made to compete with guns like Merkel Bros Model 47e. Good alternative in new guns for cash straped fella would be Turkish rounded action SxS game guns from Cabela's.
 
That's actually a pretty good price on a double barrel. The sky is the limit on one of those.

"Who makes “the best of the bests” is endlessly debatable. What’s indisputable is cost. Purchase an over-and-under from Purdey and you’ll part with £108,700, including VAT; ($144,243.00) you’ll pay £98,400, including vat, ( $130,575.00) for a Holland & Holland Royal; and upwards of £105,500, including VAT,( $139,997.00) for a Boss. All re-assuringly expensive, one might think. But order a Fabbri Titanium from the Italian gunmakers and be prepared to hand over £150,000 including VAT ($ 199,048.00) – and that’s without bespoke engraving."

http://www.thefield.co.uk/shooting/fabbri-italian-gunmakers-26748
 
I have a browning bss sporter in 20ga 3" chambers that I bought from the brother of the original owner made in 1978. SST-ejectors with 28: barrels for 350.00, 10 or 12 years ago and it has fired thousens of shells with out a bobble. if you could find one of them, I think you would be better off. eastbank.
 
New ones, covered in the latest Rifleman.

If I were still able to carry and swing one, I would e scraping up the $5000.

I would guess the street price will be about same as what Euro-optik lists Merkel 47E or 1620. This is modern rendition of design that dates back to 1875 and is manufactured and assembled by people that actually know how to make a good shotgun. Let us wait handle and see one before we run away from MSRP price. Remember our Great Leader wants to Make America Great Again so instead of making Germany or Turkey great again let us support our people first.

Larry Brown from DoubleGun BBS is getting one in for evaluation. Let us wait and see what he posts. He is to that forum what Randy Wakeman is to ShotgunWold.com. You can take those opinions to the bank.
 
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