In any "market" there are only a handful of individuals that have the discretionary income and desire to pay $50k plus for a used shotgun. 😊

I am not surprised at the outcome at all. I examined the gun closely at the Vintage Cup when it was on display there and came back periodically to catch things I may have missed earlier. I found a certain degree of non-excitement in the fact that the gun's documentation described having been sent back to the factory for restocking, new barrel sets, choke alterations and the like. This seemed to diminish the image on face of this being Du Bray's 'personal' and/or 'favorite' gun. Was it in fact one or both, or was it the product of a quest to build the perfect pigeon gun to score that one additional bird, and that may have ultimately become a more appealing example to prospective buyers that DuBray often pitched to at the bigger shoots? I found that very interesting to contemplate.

The B 8 gauge appealed to me more than the DuBray gun. I am biased, of course

And why not? It was, after all, duBray's gun to do as he pleased. If it was to kill one more bird, why not? It's all part of the provenance.





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I was watching the live bidding for a while but after the DuBray gun sold. The majority of the guns didn't bring the low estimate.

It looked like at least one of the reproduction guns sold well above the minimum, not sure about how they did overall?

Whoever, this morning, bought the cased repro 28g 2bbl set for $3,250 got a hell of a buy!

Whoa! That was a good buy, assuming nothing was wrong with it.

What did the unengraved Repros bring?

$3,000, $3,250, $3,500 (one barrel) and $6,000 (the two barrel set).

I bought two of them. A 26” and a 28”.