Larry,
If you bought an English side lock non ejector, I hope you got a hell of a buy on it.
I bought a Charlin LC-1, in very good shape, for $400, from Denny Dennis hardware, in 1993. I passed on an R10, from Kittery Point, just prior, for $600. In spite of having 29” tubes, I felt it was priced too high.
Both guns were 90%. The Charlin was a 16, Bill still owns it. The R10 was a 12.
There weren’t any good buys in France, when I was there. I seem to remember looking at a new Remington 870, for about double what they cost, here. There were guys in France who thought an 870 was the cats meow. A lot of those guys hunted pigs, exclusively, because they were pests, and they could get land owner permission to do so, easily.
There are a lot of good buys, all over Europe, today. If I had to guess, I’d say 10-15 years from now, there will be lots of really good buys, right here.
Best,
Ted
