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Check it out:

http://www.dogsanddoubles.com/2010/02/busted-up-boss-20g-brings-10000/

OWD

If Boss bought it and brought it back to life (ala AG&L treatment) they could make a lot on it.

Nice pointer your have, OWD. Nice website too.

I think you lucked out missing that one....and I LOVE Boss doubles. As someone who could do much of the work myself....I would still pass.

I don't know about any of you, but chances are, by the time i was done spending money and waiting for the results, I'd be sick of the whole thing.

Notice the original Gunbroker listing states the gun "Appears not to have been fired".

Looks like it was run over by a car.

I'm not a 20ga fan anyway, too bad it wasn't a 16...

It sure seems like we Yanks get more worked up over a sub bore SXS best then our English friends do. Although Gough Thomas wrote fondly of his 16, we should remember, it was ordered expressly for the purpose of seeing him through his last days in the field, when he was worried he might not have the fortitude to swing a mighty 12.
My English friends speak fondly of 12 bore bests. O/U 12 bore bests.


Best,
Ted

Buying a 12 ga is kinda like buying a small block Chevy...everybody has one and while they do the job there's usually something better.

It was a good well-written article that captures the angst that I, and probably many others here, feel, when we spot what is a borderline good deal on something that we've always wanted.

My take is that if the barrels had been worn out or out of proof it wold have been a near record money pit. The "as is condition" often is a sign that the seller, who claims not to know exactly what he has, is trying to sell a gun he has found out is a major money pit.

Most of the times we are saved from our dreams by events beyond our control. I have failed to buy several of these money pit projects and still regret it, even though I know that one of them ended up being one of those nightmare guns we all hear about. Last count the owner had seven or eight grand in a gun which is worth five, on a good day. True it fits him perfectly with its new stock, new sleeved barrels, which were screwed up so badly by one smith that they had to be sleeved, new hinge pin, repaired ejectors which work most of the time, new screws, one mainspring and an entire check list of things to be repaired that never seems complete. The action still needs the engraving picked up and then a nice case coloring. Yeah that was what could be a ten grand project that I missed. Sometimes we get lucky even when we do not know it.