Edd
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What activity are these shotguns used for?
How The World's Finest Shotguns Are Made
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xr650rRider
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Friend of mine has been invited a couple of times to Georgia for a quail hunt. They ride horses and in wagons. Guy he goes with has a $235,000 antique Purdy that he hunts with.
ELR LVR
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Exactly, I was going to say I think they're for people like "The Prince of Wales" and things like that.
jxb
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Always super nice to see something shared that you can not only learn from but come away with with techniques to do things we might use ourselves. Thanks for sharing this.
Greg@wfcustom
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They are used to hunt driven game birds on your 25,000 acre estate. You have a gun handler to carry them for you, a dog handler for the dogs, and you also shoot shells with the name of your estate engraved on them. (Minimum order from Purdey is 10,000 shells)
The (really) rich are completely different from what we normally consider "wealthy".
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ELR LVR
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Yeah,
Here's an example of the (Really) Rich
Many manufacturers do not even own their own test track
A guy that can produce a car that blows Ferrari and F1's out of the water
with everything done "In House" right down to printing custom Titanium parts
He hired a few F1 engineers to just kind of advise, or double check a few things for him along the way.
It's quite an achievement really, (it wont let me paste the link)
(Youtube)
First Look Rodin FZero
jackieschmidt
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I just noticed this number.
Did they ever say how many man hours are involved.
LVLAaron
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Some others have pointed out that my 25k number is way off. They said they make 30 guns a year. I didn't catch a number of man hours, but it's a lot.
DShortt
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A machinist once gave me a challenge. Take a 12" piece of 1" cold rolled steel. Make it .085" in diameter. Make the ends completely square. With a flat file, sand to fine finish.
Take a 12" piece of the same cold-rolled and make an octagon. Dimensions weren't of concern, but it was to have a .015" taper across the flats from end to end. Square both ends. Again, with a flat file and sanded to a fine finish.
So. I accomplished both tasks. He was floored. Didn't expect me to do it, just wanted me to understand the difficulty.
He took both parts and hot caustic blued them. I still have them.
Take a 12" piece of the same cold-rolled and make an octagon. Dimensions weren't of concern, but it was to have a .015" taper across the flats from end to end. Square both ends. Again, with a flat file and sanded to a fine finish.
So. I accomplished both tasks. He was floored. Didn't expect me to do it, just wanted me to understand the difficulty.
He took both parts and hot caustic blued them. I still have them.
Wallace Gusler is still alive and occasionally building guns. However, I don't believe he's forging the barrels and locks anymore.
These English gun makers are no more talented than some of the guys on American Longrifles Forum. Some of them are true masters.
https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php#c1
ELR LVR
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.085" dia???
thats like making a toothpick from a log
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I would have just said, "Yeah I believe you"
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However, I do agree that with some good sharp quality files, some guys can do better than most guys can with an end mill.
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I also watched how files themselves were made by hand, also very cool process.
DShortt
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Yep, you're right. Wasn't paying enough attention. .850"
The guns I referenced were built forty years or so ago. The English pound was worth about 2 bucks. A can of Campbells soup (one of my benchmarks for inflation) was 65 cents. I can't guess at the man-hours involved. The owner was an oil man who had done well for himself. WH
Edd
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I knew a guy that pushed barbed wire fences down with a $15,000 Perazzi but anything beyond that stresses my imagination.
DShortt
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I kind of like looking at guns with fine engraving, but all I want to do is look. I'd never buy one.
In my opinion, a gun is a tool. If it's too nice to use, it's too nice to own. Feel the same way about all material things.
I don't want things just to put them somewhere and look at them. I just don't appreciate them that way.
Nothing wrong with it, not bashing anyone who likes to collect. It's just not my 'thing'.
In my opinion, a gun is a tool. If it's too nice to use, it's too nice to own. Feel the same way about all material things.
I don't want things just to put them somewhere and look at them. I just don't appreciate them that way.
Nothing wrong with it, not bashing anyone who likes to collect. It's just not my 'thing'.
That's the same way I feel about Commemoratives and Milsurps that are worth too much to fire.
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