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It seems as if you have agreed that she will dictate terms and if that floats your boat just ignore those who argue and advise against such.

Price them both and sell the one that moves first. Price them on this site and one or the other might sell quickly.

I feel kind of bad here, I make it sound like my new bride is the wicked witch of the East, when she is the furthest thing from it! She has not put her foot down, the real matter is that I am torn on whether I should keep both the guns or get rid of one of them, I can keep them both, one will get be left in the safe more. I am going to shoot the Belgian this weekend and see how it goes, and that will ultimately make up my mind.

I personally like the way it looks and understand that is has little to know collector value. Lord knows I learned a hard lesson having bought a restored Parker!

Thanks for all of the insight, as always, the responses are amusing and insightful.

Always double check to see the screw in choke tubes are tight in the bores. Typically, doubles don't have heavy wall tubes in that area, and you want to avoid shooting one out if you can. Use light loads, in either gun, they aren't American guns and you shouldn't feed them American loads. Rather than a textbook, 40 yard approach to patterning the guns, shoot them at ranges that seem typical to the average shots presented to you in your area. The shooters I know that can consistantly grass a pheasant with a full head of steam at forty yards are few, so don't pattern like that is the only shot you will ever take.
I wish you good luck with either gun you decide to keep, and better luck still with the lady who stole your heart.

Best,
Ted

Tell her the same rule applies to wives.