Keith, prices are what they are but when buying things like guns, at auction, overseas you need to look at the total picture. Not just the low winning bid price. If you look at what you can buy at auction for £300 you will see a gun you will be hard pressed to find in the US for less than $1,250-1,500.00. But to be fair that £300 win is going to be a £850-900 gun by the time you get it. So there is a little cushion in the price. And one in ten guns listed are a steal, being lost in the crowd they are a bit hard to find. I bought near mint condition AYA Model 4, in 12, 16 & 20, that cost me less than a grand after importing which are steals.
I also have bought several central vision and crossover guns for display and just to play around with at the Skeet club or Sporting Clays. Those are impossible to find in the US. If you want a challenge shoot a round of Skeet with a crossover gun. I just wish these guns could give the the story they have seen. Were they made for a person with a master eye problem or for someone who lost and eye in the War? My theory is the low grade ones, which often are well used, were for working people with master eye problems and have seen a full lifetimes use, but the mid grade ones were for War vets because they tend to have much less use and are much better taken care of in general. But who knows.
And to your constant digging, what is the point? The owner of the board seems to not mind, so why should you? His site, his rules, as he chooses to enforce them. Please end the personal attacks. They add nothing to the board and run others off because they just tire of them because they have been so useless. Hope your year is better that the last three have been. Less than a year to go on FJB. I hope.
