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Best guns are always sidelock, STTF and free of a pierced receiver. All that other well made stuff is just junk. Stay away from it. Leave them for the guys who can't afford a "proper" gun......like me. :-)
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I agree with Philbert, boxlocks are just plain funny looking!!
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I agree with Philbert, boxlocks are just plain funny looking!! I know right. Especially Harkoms, I mean, how much "fugly" can possibly be built into a gun?? Harkom boxlocks take the cake when it comes to really foul aesthetics.  Dustin
Last edited by LeFusil; 03/25/11 12:38 PM.
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I'm quite a number of years away from having grandsons (I hope) but I sure hope to get a bit of art like Stan got. Makes me more jealous than any gun I've seen. LOL
You are a lucky man Stan!
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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Dustin, you got me on that one, havent seen one of those. But, look no further than the New Ithaca Gun(?) the boxlock with exposed hammers, now that is FUGLY!!!
Sidelocks have been around for hundreds of years BEFORE Boxlocks because thats how guns naturally evolved through the ages and sidelocks look good with or without exposed hammers. No?
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One of my hunting partners had the right sidelock "fall off" his Spanish Grulla (and lost) while hunting this fall. The gun is now back in Spain, being repaired. Cost will exceed $1k.
Not a common occurence, but it does occasionally happen.
JERRY
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There are surely pros and cons to each type but I find double barrel firearms with side-lock mechanisms to be more aesthetically appealing.
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Stan, he will be a great shot with your instructions! Bobby
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Here he is a few weeks ago about to smoke a high incoming clay with his .410 Stoeger Uplander S x S "best gun". He'll be graduating to a 20 by next dove season.  My apologies chopperlump, and others, if I hijacked your thread. It was not my intention. I'll try to be more careful about that. Stan
Last edited by Stan; 03/25/11 04:17 PM. Reason: grammatical error
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I'll take another one of these over any sidelock ever made, stocked to the fences or not. 
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