doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com What is the golden era of SxS guns?

Come on guys, compare a flinter to a percussion to a pin fire to a breechloader built in the late 1800's to a modern firearm built by let's say Purdey or Boss, Manton or Daw, Westley Richards or Thomas Bland, got to love the long history and heritage of the British firms, is there any difference in their perfection, no. Each sample from that specific era will signify perfection in the gunmaker's art; so in other words until all of these British firms have disappeared you can't possibly narrow down or nail down a term such as "The Golden Era".
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Video killed the radio star and the repeater killed the two-holer which is after all sort of a repeater by iteration. The Golden Era of anything is when it's the going thing, in use, the common currency. Has little to do with the perfection of execution or the "ultimate evolution" to every damn cost-added option which can be squeezed in. Bet there are lots of folks who don't think a Lincoln Navigator belongs to the Golden Age of motor cars but think a T-model with a gravity fuel line or even a Stanley Steamer does. This in no ways impugns the usefulness of historical signposts or the self-congratulation of chauvinistic backpatting.

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This is not the first time golden era has been used in gunmaking and shooting, and I doubt the last.
If your into muscle cars, I bet you could nail down the when, from start to end.