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"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble
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I think he is talking about 'Empire Grade' E10 from St. Mary's Square. It's quite easy to mistake one soot covered factory builiding for another. I might buy a log cabin in Blue Ridge Mtns. add pine furniture and raise some chickens. What's wrong with a simple life Sterlingworth?  I'm sure it will come in handy with Rottweil 'Express' 67mm buckshot loads to keep them foxes and coyotes at bay. 
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Don't get too caught-up in the Westley Richards experience - there are many that are not up to Philly Sterlingworth snuff.
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Lord Lowell, are you sure you don't mean W. Richards?
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I've seen non ejector A&D Westley's for as low as $1,250, and I got mine for $1,450. I've seen several under 2k in the past year. I'll take a WR over a Philly Sterlingworth any day.
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My gosh!! This has got to be the dumbest post that I have ever read. Are you guys a bunch of morons or what?!! If the roof on your car leaks, and it is dripping on your head, just move your head out of the way!!........ WHO DEY? WHO DEY?
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If only we Americans coudve ever learned to properly stock all those great classic SXS's. Thats my only beef with American Classics, almost have to re-learn to shoot for them to perform. Oh they look good sure, but all that drop at heel jsut stifles me. I got rid a very nice Fox Sterlingworth in 16GA last year because there was nothing short of re-stocking that wouldve made that thing shoot for me. Then, I buy a lowly Belgian Guild gun for 200 bucks 2 weeks ago and I can't miss. Went ten for ten on doves last weekend - thats a first of a lifetime of hunting. But, the guild gun is stocked very straight and modern like, as are most English guns. So for me, the best SXS's have all proven to be of European origins. Even the over/under too, as the Superposed is the best of all time in my book. For beauty as well as practical applications/performance. Again, a european gun even though John Browning invented it. Took the Belgians to build it.
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All this chatter of "finest" and "best" this or that, garaging of woodies, bad Chevys and good Chryslers, brings some of my thoughts up.
First, my woody stays in the garage these days more than it used to. Romance is a casulty of a busy life.
I don't like Chrysler products, never did, even when working on Hemi D6 heads for Pro-stockers and especially when working on fueler Hemi heads.
I like most of the vintage American big name guns, but recognize that all have their pluses and minuses, a Fox is no different on this. Still, I wouldn't want to be deprived of owning any of them. Being examples of our American history, I appreciate all of them and worship none.
European (that includes the UK last time I checked) guns can often be found of better design and/or manufacture than American guns. I appreciate good design and manufacture as much or more than the average guy. Nevertheless, I don't find myself as interested in them as American guns. Guess I'm just a knothead patriot. No arguement there.
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Don't get too caught-up in the Westley Richards experience - there are many that are not up to Philly Sterlingworth snuff.
Better than the funny paper...
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There are more than enough Westleys that are as plain as your great aunt's church dress. It is the keepers/exports/rough guns, that I'd pick a Sterlingworth over - just because it's American.
You'd be giving-up a little in gun handling and wood perhaps in these Bond St. off-the-rackers...but still!
Don't know a Brit, that thinks of himself as European.
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