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Yep. £20,000
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06-28-2018, 06:07 PM | #4 | ||||||
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Richard Purdey used to send his worst case broken stocks - even with missing pieces - to David Trevallion for a strong invisible repair.
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06-28-2018, 07:04 PM | #5 | ||||||
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Wow, I've never even seen a "best" gun in person let alone handle one.. But always wondered if after handling one those prices would somehow seem justifiable to me. Makes the custom shotguns from CSMC look like bargains.
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06-28-2018, 07:40 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Exactly. They’re all CNC-made anyway. Buy the gun not the name.
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I have a Parker DH that I'd like to have restocked. Do you think they'd want a little more if I were to spec a SSBP?
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I always found the guys on Bruton Street to be more affable. Not quite so full of themselves. I made about 120 trips to UK between '85 and '99 and made the rounds pretty regularly. Billy Billimoria, at Holland was one of the nicest guys you would ever want to meet, and was Old School Indian. When he was back from a heart attack, he told me he was waiting to sell a gun before he retired. He had a little double rook rifle, I bought it, and he was gone before I got back there a month later. To this day, I get a beautiful handmade Christmas card from him.
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I also own a few Purdeys. Which I will stack up against anything from CSMC. Any day. And just so you don't get mislead, I know the folks at CSMC and they have been very nice to me. This is NOT a knock against them. |
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I wasn’t comparing their quality or workmanship, just cost. The higher end CSMC guns are out of my league already, so a H&H or Purdey DEFINITLEY is.
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