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There's an Alexander Henry on GI that fits what you are looking for.
A few years ago my friend won the 20 bore hammer event at the Southern Side by Side event with a Boss underlever. He then proceeded to sell it. His mistake he regrets to this day.
I used to be a hoarder so to speak. Then decided to start getting quality not quanity.

ky...good man yourself, I love your post n agree with you, but I think you have more cash than I....but post the yard sale details anyway if you feel ill...only joking man, cheers n god bless
franc
i have only ever had 4 shotguns at one time, so I;m neither...but if I was rich I would go on a pure mental buying spree , ha ha-:)

Maybe I aspire to be a collector AND a hoarder, but I'm really a poor man's version of both I suppose. I have a couple of English shotguns that I like. I would like to upgrade them and would like the upgrade to have a pistol grip, even if English. One of my two current English guns is pistol gripped. Or Prince of Wales gripped anyway. I wouldn't mind a good American gun for an upgrade but I don't know what I'm looking at and prices seem quite high relative to English or other European.

In the rifle world, I'm definitely more of a shooter than a hoarder or a collector. Very few of my rifles are collectible, but they are very expensive like collectibles, and I do have quite a number, but all of them are purposeful, and can't be ascribed to hoarding.

I am neither a Collector or a Hoarder
I am an Accumulator !
I shoot rifles, pistols and shotguns.
I hunt, target shoot, and recreation-ally shoot.

I enjoy Benchrest shooting, Skeet shooting, crazy shooting, etc.

I like shooting OLD military single shot rifles
Rolling Blocks, Beaumonts, Sniders, Martinis, Werndls, ect.

So, as I get older, tastes have changed in recoil and sights.
So, what is a fella to do, accumulate more

Palunc,

The Alexander Henry is nice but at the asking price I'd go for my other bucket list gun, either a MacNaughton or Dickson round action. And either would fit very nicely with my skeleton acton and rook rifle making a small but very nice scottish collection.

I just bought a nice Dickson. Thinking about selling it or one one of my other guns.

I am neither, but addicted to my obsession with upland game hunting. Grouse, quail,ptarmigan, pheasant. I was brought up carring a sxs and what better tool and work of art than a sxs Now the trick is do I need that small sub guage sxs or take a trip to Argentina my weekness is I normally do both.
Sxs for upland and driven birds
Auto for ducks and geese
Flint lock Muzzle loader for late season deer
Pistols and such. Now To add to my obsession is being obsessed with fly fishing rods and reals. Orvis, Thomas and Thomas, and Scott rode to Able reals. Now when I leave this mortal life, I am sure my wife will have one big sale with KY Jon tag sale!

I have an outstanding, and enviable collection-of ex-girlfriends.
I also have the remains of several rather disjointed collections of guns that were left to me by late relatives, and friends. I, at one time, believed I should never part with these, but, I simply cannot be a custodian to all of them, and a few have gone down the pike, hopefully to people who will put them to more and better use. I am pondering how to get the two safes that are full down to one safe that really isn't, so, a few more will be going. I'm thinking 5 or 6 shotguns should be able to cover all the bases from where I stand, today. I have a few guns that will be passed along to deserving young people at the right time.
The guns I have been responsible for bringing into the house were all bought with a purpose, and, used for that purpose, until something better for that task came along. I prefer them used, but, in good shape, as they will all end up that way in my care anyway, and they come cheaper than new as well.
I also always seem to have a project gun of some sort, mostly something that needs stock work that can be retrofitted to a left handed application. I have one in the pipeline now.
There are two high power rifles here, suitable for deer hunting in MN, kept just in case my son would like to give it a run in a few years. Since it is a struggle to get the little guy to eat a piece of meat, and I was never much of a deer hunter, that might be a notion that never comes to pass.
A couple handguns live here as well. But nothing here was acquired with the idea that it did not have a specific purpose to how I pursue game, or, shoot clay sports.
I'd like to be the old guy who had a long, decent run in the field with his dogs, and, was realistic about where and when the hunt was drawing to a close, and had only one gun left for the declining opportunities, and time remaining to hunt toward the end.
I have that gun picked out, right now. I've owned it most of 50 years already.

Best,
Ted

I'm neither. I'm more a shooter.

If a S x S doesn't shoot where I look, and I don't shoot it well, it's gonna move on.

They were made to be shot.

SRH

Try this division of gun interests:

Collector: may shoot his guns, but the central focus is the guns themselves. Collections can range from "hoards" to sharply focused groupings of very specific interest.

Collector-Shooter: Has a more or less specific field of interest, but his guns must be suitable for shooting purposes.

Shooter-Collector: Purchases guns to fill specific slots in shooting purposes. The shooting trumps collecting.

Shooter: happy with a balsa stocked gas pipe if'n he shoots it well.

DDA