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Enjoy the search, that’s most of the fun sometimes. You are filling what I consider a fringe want. Something you want more than need and it often never meets expectations but still you should try to satisfy your want. I spent 20 years looking for a side opening O/U until I found one. Then could not hit the side of a barn from the inside with it. Sold it after a year of frustration but I still enjoyed the search and anticipation of buying it. Enjoy the ride.
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Enjoy the search, that’s most of the fun sometimes. You are filling what I consider a fringe want. Something you want more than need and it often never meets expectations but still you should try to satisfy your want. I spent 20 years looking for a side opening O/U until I found one. Then could not hit the side of a barn from the inside with it. Sold it after a year of frustration but I still enjoyed the search and anticipation of buying it. Enjoy the ride. Now there's a man after my own heart. It's the chase, just as in hunting.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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Enjoy the search, that’s most of the fun sometimes. You are filling what I consider a fringe want. Something you want more than need and it often never meets expectations but still you should try to satisfy your want. I spent 20 years looking for a side opening O/U until I found one. Then could not hit the side of a barn from the inside with it. Sold it after a year of frustration but I still enjoyed the search and anticipation of buying it. Enjoy the ride. Now there's a man after my own heart. It's the chase, just as in hunting. I hunt birds during the seasons, and I hunt guns in between. Keeps me busy. Haven't felt the itch for a 28. Yet. Bt a whispy 16 or 20, perhaps.
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Here is a very nice little 28 bore John Harper BLNE. I have made a study of the Harper gunmaking family, there were three generations of John Harper, though the youngest was known as Norman. Their own name guns come along rarely. However, they made excellent Birmingham guns for demanding taskmasters in the London trade, who put their names to the guns. These included Beesley, Churchill, Wilkes, Robertson (Boss), Pape and Woodward. At $1,962 in the UK, plus shipping, this gun would still come out a good deal cheaper than the others suggested: https://www.guntrader.uk/guns/shotguns/harper-j/side-by-side/28-gauge/220201122950109Since the gun is located just down the road from Diggory Hadoke, you could ask him to look over it, broker the deal and send it over to you in one of his consignments. Tim
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We had a Hussey Imperial come through the shop many years back now that was a very early 28. Stunning piece and accordingly.... the price reflected it. I used my trigger-plate Dickenson 28 extensively last Fall and finally became more-bonded with it for the first time. With truly adult dimensions (and even choke tubes!) I found it to have great utility. A pocket full of 28s is like nothing to carry and the entry price is of little consequence. The Turkish guns will likely require some sorting out, but once completed mine served very well last year. \
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Here is a very nice little 28 bore John Harper BLNE. I have made a study of the Harper gunmaking family, there were three generations of John Harper, though the youngest was known as Norman. Their own name guns come along rarely. However, they made excellent Birmingham guns for demanding taskmasters in the London trade, who put their names to the guns. These included Beesley, Churchill, Wilkes, Robertson (Boss), Pape and Woodward. At $1,962 in the UK, plus shipping, this gun would still come out a good deal cheaper than the others suggested: https://www.guntrader.uk/guns/shotguns/harper-j/side-by-side/28-gauge/220201122950109Since the gun is located just down the road from Diggory Hadoke, you could ask him to look over it, broker the deal and send it over to you in one of his consignments. Tim Bingo! This is the class of gun I am interested in.
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TRW999 has raised a good point: importing one from the UK looks like the better deal. Double the cost for shipping and import with gun cost is half the price of one here; not that it would cost 2 grand to get it here. The lead ban in the UK has drastically reduced doublegun value in some guns. There, not here...
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We had a Hussey Imperial come through the shop many years back now that was a very early 28. Stunning piece and accordingly.... the price reflected it. I used my trigger-plate Dickenson 28 extensively last Fall and finally became more-bonded with it for the first time. With truly adult dimensions (and even choke tubes!) I found it to have great utility. A pocket full of 28s is like nothing to carry and the entry price is of little consequence. The Turkish guns will likely require some sorting out, but once completed mine served very well last year. I can only imagine what a 28 b Imperial would look and feel like. I have seen a couple of 20's that have sold at auction, but I have never seen or heard of a 28b. (And I hope I never do)
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A haunting piece (all the Imperials are), that gun was a cased, two-barrel set that dated from the very early 20th Century (like 1905). The original tubes had been honed to dangerous dimensions and a second set had been added at some time. It was even 3-inch chambered(!). Speculation was that it was used by H. J. to hustle proper toffs in the pigeon ring?
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