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Unread 08-20-2015, 03:23 PM   #21
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I think it's awesome there is a market and a passion for guns like these
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Unread 08-20-2015, 04:48 PM   #22
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It would be even more awesome if I HAD THE $200K for the Purdy My CHE Damascus 20 will just have to do
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$200K for a damascus shotgun! Beautiful, but thinking of all the tubes made in Belgium and England with artistic patterns, right down to words imbedded in the design, makes me wonder if there were any artists or craftsmen in history whose work was more undervalued than theirs?
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I think around $265K
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If I ever win the lotto, a matched pair of Purdeys in 20 and 28 gauge are on the wishlist, below several thousand acres of land, LC Smith 8 gauge and a few other things. I think I will just get fluid steel and pay less.

A friend of ours bought such a matched pair when he cashed out of his business and they are worth whatever he paid.
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Don't quote me, but there is a company I believe in Sweden that makes what they call damnasteel or some such name that is a Damascus billet that is drilled to form the barrel. This means a lot of wasted material, hence a very big price tag. I believe they use huge presses and thin layers of steel so there's only one or two welds. This cuts way down on time, but now they have just a thick billet of Damascus. This is why it's drilled. It was a couple of years back I read about them on the internet.
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Greener is using leftover Damascus tubes from the old days. I wonder if someone will try to manufacture new Damascus tubes when the old supply runs out?
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It may prove too costly to tool up and then endure countless hours of trial & error for just the right tubes, only to sell only a couple of hundred barrel sets per year.





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The Big word if. If I had 200,000 for a gun I would buy certain parker with a snake on it and a drop dead cool lefever and some more parkers heck with the limies, ch
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I would spend about $50 K on a Parker GH 28 gauge, Model 21 Duck, Fox C Grade and use the rest for a farm in Maine
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