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Similar ads sold Winchesters and others. The concept of 'stronger than necessary' is a marketing ploy and has appeal even if blown guns aren't a common event.
Note that even with proof laws Burrard's books do include examples of burst guns, most attributed to obstructions.
Bad ammunition and careless shooting have wrecked many more guns than poor manufacture.
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Gunman, your countryman make shotguns to fit like fine tailored suit and built with enough steel to be safe and to handle with speed and grace. Ours are overbuilt and turned out at rate of popcorn bags. I suspect that only few in a given batch are shot with overloads to assure strength and safety.
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I think Gunman had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he posted that comment! That Brit dry humour again!
I'm an Englishman and I don't know assure I know everything by a long shot. Yes, I'd like very much to know who makes the finest guns in the world today, PJ, please enlighten me!
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If I won lotto. I would order O/U from Ivo Fabbri and SxS from Armi Fratelli Bertuzzi. One day I will tell you why Italians do it better and it's not because I now shoot one of their mass produced clunkers.
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Good choices, PJ, but If I was to win the lotto, I'd buy, without hesitation, a really nice bulino engraved LH Perazzi MX8, nice wood, 30" 12 ga barrels, fixed chokes, bottom Improved Cylinder, top Modified.
It doesn't get nuch better than that for me.
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Me, I would buy a 'tween the wars Boss and Purdey and a Parker A1 Special, and then a Fox FE and a Lefever Optimus and an Ithaca Sousa Grade. That would be just the first month check mind you.
Mike
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I would buy 4 or 5 sections of good hunting land 
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You have gone off tipic. I think gunman's is a great idea. A US proof house run under the CIP and BATF rules. It sure would clean up all that unsafe junk that's on sale over there. Think of all the business. I wish I owned the US proof house.
John Foster
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John,
I imagine that if you could set up the equipment in a traveling road show you would make quite a bit by coming over here once a year and proofing guns. Perhaps at the Vintagers?
Just a thought, was Canada ever subject to British proof law?
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I would buy 4 or 5 sections of good hunting land That would be with the second month check!
Last edited by AmarilloMike; 02/23/11 10:53 AM.
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