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SDH makes some good points about Italian sidelocks in Double Guns and Custom Gunsmithing. You can read his chapter on the subject here:
OWD Or you could buy the book at my web site and read the whole story....[quote=SDH-MT] That looks very tidy!
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Always like your contributions, Rocketman. I'm starting to move my doubles as my legs become weaker and am living with the conceit that a best gun will always be in the cabinet---best for me.
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Do not leave Famars out of the picture. Avantis Gallery JC
"...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance."ť Charles Darwin
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About once a year I make it to the Las Vegas Arms Show in Jan/Feb and get to see all the high end firearms. I guess I could buy one if I really wanted to sacrifice in other areas a lot. But I have already learned even carrying a $5000 or $6000 shotgun around a sporting clays course, much less the granite rocks of the desert for quail, sort of tightens me up as I am overly concerned with damaging it. So I don't seriously contemplate the Bests all that much. But I do like really nice engraving which shows up best on the white receivers most of the Italian guns showcase. The English with their understated looks just don't have the same appeal for me. So judging from appearances I would have to say the Filli Rizzini, Fabbri, and a couple other Italian guns are probably ahead of Purdey and H&H all other aspects considered.
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Chuck: I don't know how you got away with this sort of controversial question on this forum without getting lots of flack. In terms of best side x sides I have to vote English such as Purdey, Holland and Boss because I think bar action sidelock for shotguns is a requirement to be a best and all the others are only copies of what the English produced!
Socialism is almost the worst.
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Chuck: I don't know how you got away with this sort of controversial question on this forum without getting lots of flack. ...  Yeah, but nearly everyone that posts regularly has put their 2 cents in.  Me? I was at the Vegas show one year when H&H had a couple guns worth around $200k each and one of the two guys in green asked if I wanted to pickup one of them. I declined. While having been in the manufacturing of machined parts and toolmaking for a good part of my life gave me the background to discern good work, and I despise low quality work, I will likely never own a gun of the quality being discussed here. But, it is entertaining to get opinions on it.
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Yeah Chuck, I enjoyed reading all the replies too and find this sort of question a lot more fun than some of the other more mundane types of questions seen here.
Socialism is almost the worst.
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If you're not reading for fun, you're not living, period. Contributions by our stalwart know-somethings are a bonus, a premium, to being here but it's the generosity of spirit that appeals most to me.
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Yep, Chuck gets away with these provocative topics because he absolutely won't retaliate or be hateful or make a personal attack.
Best,
Mike
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Mike, What kind of junk are you sellin now? 
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