Wow, very nice! Now, where are those Freepers that are going to tell me that these guns are going to be taken out in the field to go hunting?
If I could afford such a gun comfortably, why not?
I know people that drive $80,000 cars around. I know people that drive $200,000 (and often more) motor homes around.
If you buy a gun for it’s artwork to put on the wall, buy a couple of paintings for the same price instead.
Especially the Nitro. I’d love to be able to afford it and pack it on a safari.
There’s hunting and then there’s shooting. If you were to book a date of grouse shooting in Scotland, you’d be driven to the field in a Land Rover and dropped off at your grouse butt. You’d stand and shoot as the drivers flushed the grouse toward the butts. The only danger to your guns (you’d probably be shooting a matched pair) would be if either you or your loader dropped one in the exchange (loading one’s own guns slows down the shooting, and who needs the bother anyway?).
Extra fancy Presentation type guns are probably destined to live their life in the display cabinet, but there are plenty of very expensive guns that are indeed shot in the field. If I were able to afford one, a David McKay Brown gun would at the top of my list.
There’s hunting and then there’s shooting. If you were to book a date of grouse shooting in Scotland, you’d be driven to the field in a Land Rover and dropped off at your grouse butt. You’d stand and shoot as the drivers flushed the grouse toward the butts. The only danger to your guns (you’d probably be shooting a matched pair) would be if either you or your loader dropped one in the exchange (loading one’s own guns slows down the shooting, and who needs the bother anyway?).
Extra fancy Presentation type guns are probably destined to live their life in the display cabinet, but there are plenty of very expensive guns that are indeed shot in the field. If I were able to afford one, a David McKay Brown gun would at the top of my list.
Actually I do know people who bird hunt (not just shoot) with their custom sidelock (generally, more reliable and complicated than boxlocks) shotguns. One anethesiologist I met a few years ago has a matched pair of side-by-side Piottis. Old man Piotti personally fitted the fellow for his guns. Each gun cost about $20,000.
The doctor has gone through North Woods alder in search of woodcock and ruffed grouse so the stock has already been scratched. The engraving on his guns is fairly simple but the wood is absolutely magnificent.
Although the doctor brought them to Scotland for a couple of driven shoots, his main focus is here in the States.