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I found the 28-gauge Superposed Skeet gun with 28-inch barrels that I "needed" to fill up my set of Superposed Skeet guns.

Tony had a big selection of his RBL-28s to handle and a couple of 20-gauges to handle for comparison. His booth was loaded with "over the top" gold encrusted Ansley H. Fox and Model 21 doubles, and A. Galazan over-unders, with a few conservative Purdey over-unders for comparison. He also had a .410-bore Fox in-the-white that was very art deco profiled. Reminded one of the Crysler Building. Very intrigueing.

Didn't see any original Fox doubles at the show that lit me up. Looked at some much better Fox doubles in Pocotello on our way to the show!!

Did Jackson Hole/Grand Teton and Zion National Park on the way down, and have been at Death Valley National Park since leaving the show. Then had to go almost up to Reno to get over the mountains to the west on Kit Carson Pass! The three passes to the south -- Monitor, Yosemite, and Sonora -- were all closed. Now in central California to visit friends and relatives.

There are lots of buyable guns at Vegas. My local shop owner friend bought 78 guns, and he doesn't buy if the prices are high. He bought 17 Mod 92 Winchesters from one Aussie there. His sales were also very good. I missed the show for the first time in years, but I'll be back next year.

Pete

I thought that the CSMC display stole the show. Beautiful guns, all of them. I also like the FAMARS display. The Italian that I talked to like to use the F-word alot. I'm not sure if he knew how offensive it was, but it is not used in polite company. Maybe he should read the "manners post" on this BBS.

I just read "good manners" in its entirety and I retract my last comment. Read Gloria Vanderbuilt's manners book instead.

I thought the show was pretty nice and enjoyed looking at all the goodies. The RBL-28's are going to be superb bargains. They were great to look at and handled very nicely. I bought a 16ga. M12 SR skeet gun and an interesting--upgraded LC Smith 16. Both for very reasonable prices and the dealers were very open to CASH!! I've been to this show many times and it never fails to deliver a fun time for me.

Any nice affordable hammer guns??

I looked at a very nice Weeks Bros. Birmingham 16 bore with rebounding hammers and a nice level of finish remaining that was tagged @ $3500. I went to get my friend so he could help me look at it and it was already gone when I got back. However,I was able to show him the progression of lock styles from penninsula, to island, to bar-in-wood, to bar-in-frame, to hammerless. All in Purdeys and all on one, six foot table thanks to Kirby @ Vintage Doubles.

Lewis Drake had a very nice 28 ga. damascus barreled gun, but it was a kid's gun with 12.5" LOP and 24" bbls.

Larry Baer had redone and very nicely upgraded a Webley & Scott 20 ga. Re-blacked, engraving chased, a few gold inlays, and he had pierced the top-lever and trigger guard. It was quite a lovely gun.

I was very disappointed that FAMARS brought NO hammerguns with them, although Butterfield's had two FAMARS "Quattro-Canones." Even in the sub-small bores they were way too heavy to be more than a curiosity, plus they held one too many shells to be a dove gun.

Nothing else in hammer guns tripped my trigger and I am hopeless when it comes to those "ear-hammered" guns.

sv

I agree that Kirby's table was fascinating. He was always busy talking when I came around but I really liked the Dougal and the Abbey. Larry Shelton had some interesting guns at his table, a couple of Pape hammerguns one top lever and one unusual small lever gun, and a very neat Greener pin fire with levers that pushed the hammers to half cock when the gun was opened. I didnt get to spend as much time at the show as I wanted to but really enjoyed it.

Apparently Vintage Doubles had a great steel barrel 16-gauge Baltimore Arms Co. double. It had been sold by the time I asked. Who got it? Serial number? Specs?

Don told me about it but I didnt see it either...