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As for round-action guns, the skeletal bar-in-wood guns made by Dickson and MacNaughton are stunners. Redgrouse has a MacNaughton with Damascus barrels that he showed us a few years ago and it was a beautiful gun. Maybe some lucky member will buy one this year and show and tell. Gil
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James,
The Ideal is probably my second most admired gun for its sleekness,...nothing wrong mechanical but not a piece to be seen up close.
David I hunted last season with a 10 yard Ideal 302 16 (not the same one I await). By 10 yards, I mean it looks okay from 10 yards. Well, maybe 15 yards ...  Gil
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I hunted last season with a 10 yard Ideal 302 16 (not the same one I await). By 10 yards, I mean it looks okay from 10 yards. Well, maybe 15 yards ... Gil Hahaha!
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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James, not much there for that maker. Started building guns in 1865, is that correct?
Also, he finished guns from parts he bought 'in the white' from the Belgium or German trade. But that information is coming from a guy who also said Praha is an 'OLD' name for Prague. So I'm considering the source.
Raimey or Pete may shed some light here.
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Treblig, Praha is, as I understand it, not so much the "old" name for Prague, but the correct name in the Czech language.
The people here who can shed the most light on the subject are likely to be Raimey, who helped me immensely when I first bought the Lovena, and Felix Neuberger, who posts here under the name Felix and is a contributing author to the DGJ.
My understanding is the Nowotny was kind of the leading maker in the Czech gun community, finishing guns acquired in the white from locales like Leige, as well as building them from scratch. I also have heard (can't confirm veracity) that he was one of the founders (or contributors) to the co-operative that was Lovena. There are some mid 1990's articles in DGJ by Felix that are worth digging up.
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Last edited by canvasback; 10/07/17 11:37 AM.
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James, it took me a while to find the rabbit on the starboard side of the action....Fabulous engraving and wood. If it were coffee, the wood would be described as having a "taste of chocolate." Gil
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What a magnificent work of art! Thanks for sharing. PS: I like both dogs.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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Gil, even when I know it's there, it's the crane??? on the trigger guard I have the most difficulty finding! Joe, thanks for your kind words. I like the dogs too! Especially the one on the left.  
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It's so lovely! Even your dog is the epitome of badass bird hunting canvasback!
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