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Well,
I don't have any focus in my shotgun collection except they are all SxS's. I have a 12 gauge Charles Galland (French), a 12 gauge East German Sauer, 16 gauge Field grade L.C. Smith, 16 gauge Savage/Fox model B, and a CZ Bobwhite in 20 gauge (rainy day gun). I must admit I really like French guns. I also like L.C. Smiths. I would like to add a Darne to my "collection" also I would like to add a Manufrance Robust. I would really like a Manufrance Ideal but sadly I don't think I can afford one.But you never know what the future may bring. I also would like a 20 gauge L.C. Smith. My rifles are more of a "collection" they are all military models. M1 Garand, 03 springfield, and a Enfield.
I guess that is my only true "collection"
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This board sparked me back to doubles. Old doubles is the common denominator, half-and-half before the First and Second World Wars. Got rid of the wonderfull 1100 and bought good condition American classics: L.C. Smith, Parker, Fox and then a good British (Army and Navy), good Belgian (Francotte), good German (Sauer), all soaked in the golden age of gunning. That's it. I don't yearn for others. I'm still a country boy.
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Got rid of the wonderfull 1100 and bought good condition American classics: L.C. Smith, Parker, Fox and then a good British (Army and Navy), good Belgian (Francotte), good German (Sauer), all soaked in the golden age of gunning. King, I thought they were soaked in the Bay of Fundy?
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
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My focus are Prussian doubles. But, lately I'm drifting towards French guns, I have not bought any thing..yet, just doing a lot of reading and studing .
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Bussbee- Reading and studying? Do you realize the opportunities to throw away money you're going to cheat yourself out of?
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Bussbee- Reading and studying? Do you realize the opportunities to throw away money you're going to cheat yourself out of?
Cary Reread the post Cary, he is reading and studing- not a bad way to make a penny. (No offense intended Bussbee, just having a little fun) Alex
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Over the past ten years I have been buying guns as an investment for my retirement which started a year ago last May. I bought guns that were in like new/new in the box condition that I knew would increase in value the longer I kept them. I handled them gently and didn't slam them around or bang them up in the field. Mainly: Model 12s, 21s, Superposed, Colt and S&W handguns. So far my investment has paid off. I am getting nearly 1/2 again to twice what I paid for almost everything. In the past year I have sold 5 Model 21s, 4 Model 12s, three Superposed (one- a two barrel set) 5 new in the box Colts, 1 JP Sauer SXS, and 2 as new Colts. I still have a few Model 12s, 6 21s, 2 Superposed and quite a few others. My son wants several and I intend on keeping some for him but. But I surely am having fun plus I am getting the last laugh on all those who called my guns clunky, butt ugly and told me they swung like a pig on a boat oar and I had bad taste. All this and I still have a 21 as a beater. Ain't life grand. 
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Recoil Bob, we recovered everything from six fathoms hard bottom: the Fox is being restored in Ontario, binoculars in Montana, and opened shells for bismuth and TM reloading, replaced the Merc 9.8 computer black box. Everything was pretty well in one place except for my buddies' 870 and A5 in padded cases, of which one settled 100 metres away.
A lesson is not to write off a gun because it has been in salt water for extended time; in this case, six months. I wiped off the slimy orange rust, put it fresh water, then methyl hydrate, oiled and shipped it off to the 'smith without any visible rust. I must have had a fair bit of 10W30 on my pullthrough because the barrels were as perfect as they left the factory in 1925. Regards, King
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Jimmy, that's a little too much information.
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Well, I guess to be here I have to confess to my SxS fetish. I kind of collect Bakers as every "modern" SxS I have is a Baker. Then there are the SxS Ml'ing shotguns. I am now down to 3 flint SxS's and 3 perc. SxS's. Other shotguns are a Model 12 trap, a O/U Miruko Supreme trap and a Rem.1100 standard wt. 20ga. skeet. Then there are the other non-shotguns. I love well done sporterized Mausers and Springfields. Bolt action rimfires like Rem. 37, 541S, 581s are great and my first gun, a Marlin 39A. Plus there are the Ml'ing rifles, both flint and perc.
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