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I like it, or should I say I am rather fond of its bold modern design (but for my personal use I do prefer vintage guns). I agree that this design deserves a side lever.
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....The shaping of the trigger guard is no accident, or afterthought. Viewing the profile, you can see the carryover of lines, complimenting each other. Look closely and you may notice that the forward curve of the bow blends perfectly with the lower rear curve of the receiver, and the rear curve of the guard perfectly matches the curve of the upper line of the rear of the receiver, and also that of the forward border of the wrist checkering....
....there is method in the madness. It is part of a package.... Not a big deal Stan, to my eye, I see the opposite. I see just enough differences in the curves of the receiver and the trigger guard that the profile does not appear to be a seamless flow. That straight back of the trigger guard looks to clash with the flowing curves theme. I think there's too much open space behind the trigger, it doesn't look fitted. Because the attachment to the receiver is much wider than the bottom curve of the guard, it says 'stamping' to me no matter how carefully planned. Only opinion is all. I think it drops the ball for a designer special gun.
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If it had 32" barrels, and we're offered to me to use for a season, would I? Oh yeah! As far as the engraving goes.....I don't see it too far removed from the Gargoyle themes I've seen from notable English makers...
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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If I had a dog that ugly I would shave his a$$ and make him walk backwards.
The 486 Parallelo is a nice looking gun however.
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Might look good after a glass of George T Stagg...but I'd hate to wake up next to her the next morning.
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"Doubles are 150 years old and if you are going to interest people into buying new one for big bucks you need to do something different."
I've always considered the classic double to be perfection; the idea that you somehow need to 'improve' upon it just to be different is a fallacy. I feel the same way about the vagina. It's been good just the way it is for ages. Or so I gather.
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It's not so much the product, Greg, rather the price of admission.
The best tactic with either, is to rent it.
Thus, we avoid depreciation and change of fashion.
"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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I was at the Beretta Gallery on Madison Ave in NYC today. I handled the standard 486 in 20 Ga. ; a nice gun. Didn't do a real thorough eval, just handled, looked at wood to metal fit, barrel striking, bores, etc. Overall a nice gun. round body, nicely shaped single selective trigger, ejectors. Seamless, laser welded mono block barrel construction. wood finish a satin , not 100% filled but good enough, checkering was pretty good for machine cut. French gray receiver and trigger guard, log tang guard. would have preferred blued guard and case colored receiver. solid lock up,
also saw Papa H's SO3 on display. kind of cool piece of history. My daughter actually pointed it out. I was too busy looking at an SO10 EELL ($170,000)
Last edited by Brian; 11/26/14 11:14 PM.
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Brian,
I thought the std. 486 has laser welded shoe or clip lumps, and one piece tubes...
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