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AYA of Spain do some really beautiful side by sides in the English style. Most of the "cheaper" new British guns are Spanish or Italian made guns with a British name such as Powell or William Evans engraved on (even Purdey do this now so i am told).
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What do you want to do with this gun?
Do YOU want new or a redone classic?
Hunt wild upland birds?
Shoot driven pheasants?
Pound 10,000 targets a year?
Go to Argentina and shoot doves?
O/U or SXS?
One gun can not do it all.
If you want an O/U get a Perazzi built to your specs. Nothing better on the planet for the money.
Regards,
Jeff Here is where I'd start. Tell us about what your going to do with it Treb! Does it need to be able to shoot SAAMI ammo? I'd be looking at a Dickson or MacNaughton for my needs, but for 10k it would probably be sleeved which wouldn't bother me one bit. This one catches my eye all the time: http://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-fo...un_id=100627272Bill
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Bring your wife to Paradise for Spring Training. Check into the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Send her to Scottsdale Fashion Square with credit card http://www.fashionsquare.com/ Go to William Larkin Moore http://williamlarkinmoore.com/ Buy yourself something nice that fits. Drive up I-17 to Ben Avery and shoot it. I'll meet you there  Immediate gratification...until the wife's credit card bill arrives  Now that's a plan!!! I'm just star gazing guys, if I had an extra $10,000 bucks laying around, I would rebuild the drivetrain on my truck then drive to Bobski's place in April for that shoot then on to Alaska for some serious wilderness bird hunting. A guy can dream can't he.
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SXS? I'd probably get the finest long barreled AH Fox that $10k will buy.
O/U? Perazzi, without question.
SRH
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Bring your wife to Paradise for Spring Training. Check into the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Send her to Scottsdale Fashion Square with credit card http://www.fashionsquare.com/ Go to William Larkin Moore http://williamlarkinmoore.com/ Buy yourself something nice that fits. Drive up I-17 to Ben Avery and shoot it. I'll meet you there Immediate gratification...until the wife's credit card bill arrives Drew:  Jim
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Okay, its one of those post bird season, too early for enjoyable clays rhetorical questions w/zero qualifiers aside from maximum expenditure; so whot I'd do is find a solid lower grade non-ejector Ithaca in 12 or 20 gauge [predicated on your personal pref. & intended use] w/good barrels; then I'd contact Doug Mann & have him help you get a decent piece of wood and stock it for you and let him coordinate something w/Jim Nixon for very minimal, but attractive, engraving [even if only a border motif] and have the action French grayed & bbl's. nicely blacked. You could easily achieve that within your specified budget and have a perfectly wonderful bespoke and highly usable gun.
You asked, so there it is in a nutshell. Doug can tell you if I'm a loony tune or not about the idea. Personally, I think it very doable.
A less expensive approach would be to have Doug stock an Ithaca SKB 100 for you and forget about anything more than his craftsmanship to make it stand out & unique. You could possibly even do a pair within that budget, a 12 & a 20.
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Try to find an original C grade small bore Fox for that price. Hopefully it can be bent to fit. They aren't making the original ones anymore and those gun have soul.
foxes rule
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I'm just star gazing guys, if I had an extra $10,000 bucks laying around, I would rebuild the drivetrain on my truck then drive to Bobski's place in April for that shoot then on to Alaska for some serious wilderness bird hunting. A guy can dream can't he. Try doing it in the privacy of your own home....
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tw, that's exactly what it is, one of those hypotheticals. That's what I figured most of the responses would be, an old American classic restocked to your shooting style and/or specs. I don't think you could even buy a bespoke Spaniard for $10,000 dollars any more.
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That's what I figured most of the responses would be, an old American classic restocked to your shooting style and/or specs. I don't think you could buy a bespoke Spaniard for $10,000 dollars any more. You can probably just barely get into an AyA I would think. The 53 was about 12k and the 56 was about 14k last fall if I recall
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