Blah, blah blah. Who cares if the workmanship on a Darne is flawess? The design stinks. They're like square tires, even if they're beautifully made.
Who said anything about Fabbris? I'd take one - if you gave it to me. I think they're boring, but they work, and the stocks on most of them have the gun equivalent of cankles. I'd rather buy a Perazzi and spend the rest of the money on shooting out west or in the UK.
If you would rather have a Fabbri than a Purdey, good for you. Taste can't be taught. You've either got it or you don't.
Shotgunlover, these kind of statements make we wonder if you have any idea what you're saying:
"It is always useful to keep in mind that to date no English gun has been subjected to the endurance test of target shooting."
So no English gun has ever been used for target shooting? Is that what you're saying? OK. I find this hard to believe, but please elaborate. And as Damascus pointed out above, isn't anything you shoot at a target, including the hundreds and hundreds of birds a day they Brits used as "targets" on the old, big driven shoots?
And what about live pigeon shooting? Over the last 100+ years, I think a few British shotguns have been used at the world's top live pigeon shoots. But maybe you know otherwise.
OWD
Last edited by obsessed-with-doubles; 06/06/15 08:15 AM.
