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The "function" of the hunting gun Ted, for tablefare, was dead one hundred years ago. Fifty years ago, a chickin was Sunday's meal.
An axe is functional - not so with the vanity grades.
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Just remember when passing these prize guns up the family tree - you'll only get 'em arrested in our near one world future.
yOu watch too much Star Warz.
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I dunno, jOe. Some of our eastern members might weigh in, but I think they've been in this boat for decades. If a NJ or NYC owner wanted to pass on a gun to a son, I think it's a "transfer" and all the associated paperwork. They wrote the laws in CA such that they could catch 'Pachuco Pete' gangsters for an illegal weapons charge even if he said he "borrowed it from his cousin".
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Vanity does not make a best Thorny. Ruffed grouse in wild rose hip sauce is not available in the grocery store, mine or your's.
I'm preparing the last grouse of the season as I type. Makes me forget all about the grocery store, and their malnourished chickens.
Steve Forbert would say I was born too late. He'd be right.
If "English Best" were so, Digweed would shoot a Purdey.
He don't. Vanity has it's limits, it would seem, located very close to where the BS walks, it would appear.
Anything added at this point is only so much something about nothing. The term "best", when used around shotguns, really means little, to nothing, about performance.
It never has. It is the most brilliant marketing ever foisted upon any group of humans, and for the most part, shotgunners lap it up like mother's milk.
Don't you?
Best,
Ted
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Useta Ted, but not anymore.
...but I would say, the English gun is more about performance than anything else.
You know why?
Don't think there's a Boss&Co collectors Asso. - do you!
More for the field than the club or newsletter.
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I'd never say there isn't room for both a Boss and a Stevens 311, Thorny.
As long as you shoot well with the one you own.
The devil is in the details, and that little detail, hitting what you shoot at is lost on many who swallowed best medicine.
Our friend brought up "functionally", Thorny.
At that juncture, "Best" takes on a completely different, but, relevant, meaning.
Best,
Ted
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Ted, ever date(for lack of a better word) a woman who's just "functionally" there?
Well then, you know what I mean.
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Thorny, you are so full of it! I agree with Ted. We have a LOT fof SxS shooters come thru the place here, and to my recollection, only ONE British gun in years, a WC Scott.If they (British Guns) are so great, show us some pics of yours in the Field ...I Love British guns, don't get me wrong, But they are primarily a vanity item IMHO.
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Sorry Last Dollar, mine's placed on a pedestal, in a natural setting(plastic plants n birds) and the lighting is just so.
Can't be moved just yet!
Last edited by Lowell Glenthorne; 02/26/08 10:41 PM.
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Clearly a case of don't ask, don't tell. The Early American Industries Assoc. used to argue this monthly. The historically hip trustee vs. the engineer of the found object. Most of us have probably been both. Anyway, if the horse gets any higher, we'll all need a mounting box!
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