MX8 is getting close

[Brian Hornacek]

This will be ready for sporting clays season. 31 1/2" flat rib, stock will come later.

[Richard Flanders]

That is nice! Look forward to seeing the finished product.

[charlie cleveland]

mighty nice the finished product should be awsome...charlie

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

I agree that will be a fine piece, to carry, look forward to the finished photos, gary

[Rick Losey]

that is quite a chasing tool you have there :rotf:


beautiful work- can't wait to see the finished gun

[CraigThompson]

When I decided I wanted to move up from a Remington 3200 to something else for my skeet and trap shooting I had an inkling to get a Perazzi . At the time the big ticket trap gun was the DB-81 and I thought one of those with Kolar AAA tubes would be good for both as I always liked a gun that shot high .

Well long story short John Allem offered me a brand new K-32 with Kolar AAA tubes and a pair of used K-80 trap barrels so that was the route I took .

Still may have to acquire a Perazzi of some type just so I can say I owned one for awhile !!!!

[CraigThompson]

Is that factory engraving and gold work or did you have someone else do the work ? Either way it looks great !!!

[John Dallas]

A new K32? :eek:

[CraigThompson]

A new K32? :eek:

Yep , along about 85 or 86 I bought it . Allem had bought all the remaining new K-32's that Hal DuPont had except for the Crowns and Super Crowns .

[Bill Murphy]

The "leftover" K-32s were spread around to several dealers. Kolar, Bingham and Parks, Southwest and a couple of others were selling them for $1900 to $2000 each. Some were cut down trap guns made into skeet guns and some were unmodified. I was considering buying one for skeet, but got caught up in the 3200 Remington frenzy when Matt Dryke won the Olympic Gold Medal shooting the 3200. It took years for me to buy my first K-32, for $775.

[Larry Frey]

Is that factory engraving and gold work or did you have someone else do the work ? Either way it looks great !!!

Craig,
Not to speak for Brian but the engraving is signed in multiple places by Angelo Bee. If you look close you will see his mark of ABEE which sometimes is followed with a drawing of a bee. I once had a CSMG XE Fox 20 gage that he engraved and was marked as such.

Brian,
The engraving scenes on your gun are spectacular. The MX-8's are very plain and make for nice upgrades. I bought this one several years ago that was engraved by Barry Lee Hands. It's a great gun but the truth is I don't shoot any better scores than I do with my Parkers so the it gets very little use.

[Bill Murphy]

The Mirage and the MX8 are great canvasses for the engraver. I owned a Mirage 30" pigeon gun engraved and gold inlaid by Heidimarie Hiptmeyer and stocked by her husband Klaus. It is a masterpiece. I would like to know where it is today. It is pictured in an early Gun Digest. Does anyone know where it is? I sold it to a fellow on Long Island who wrote me a bum check. A bit of ingenious detective work solved that problem. I'm sure you understand what Long Island detective work is all about.

[CraigThompson]

The MX-8's are very plain and make for nice upgrades. I bought this one several years ago that was engraved by Barry Lee Hands. It's a great gun but the truth is I don't shoot any better scores than I do with my Parkers so the it gets very little use.

It isn't a matter of breaking more birds !

It's as one older gentleman told me years ago " You look so much better with a K-32 Super Crown in your hands then a Standard Grade ESPECIALLY when you MISS :rotf:"

[Brian Hornacek]

Yes as Larry said above Angelo Bee did the work and it is consistent with the Belgium Browning style. He has done quite a few projects for me in the past, I'll attach a few pictures of grade IV Superposed he just finished for me, the wood for the Perazzi and model 21 Angelo did for me. He is one heck of a guy. I went to Liege Belgium with him a couple years ago and he introduced me to a few of the other Browning engravers Jean Diet and Rocco Capece. They are wonderful people and I was very fortunate to make the trip with him.

Next on the agenda is a MX-8 side plate 31 1/2" gun. The plates are installed but the engraving will not be done till Summer most likely.

[Bill Murphy]

That is one great Grade 4 Superposed. Can we see a view with the wood included?

[Brian Hornacek]

Sorry about the quality of these, its all I have right now.

[Brian Hornacek]

Well the MX8 is done

[Brian Hornacek]

More

[Bill Murphy]

Very nice finished product. The Grade IV Superposed is a better piece of work than any factory Grade IV I have seen. The oak leaves are deeper, at least they appear to be.

[Brian Hornacek]

If you have the Superposed book it was copied from an elaborate Grade IV pictured over 4 pages. I believe Funken did the original.