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These are luxury items for royalty and those that have more đź’° then they know what to do with. These people do not preoccupy themselves with shooting enough to win competitions. New activity seems to be making poor people miserable by buying off politicians, political candidates or making our lives miserable in other ways. None of the people I know that shoot their Purdeys, H&H, etc. at clays events are royalty.
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A acquaintance of mine has one of Perdue's old S X S pigeon guns. I have been told Billy got rid of it because it was not regulated.
I've never had the heart to tell him that.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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So now Stan, it's time to revel your opinion
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I'll do so soon, Mike. Thanks.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Not necessarily, but wealthy folk like The Material Girl and hubby Guy Ritchie,.... I don’t think Elon Musk is into stuff like this, but I don't really know.
I meant for people who have so much wealth they literally don't know what they should buy next. Not a bad problem to have. If I ever get any of that farm subsidy money— I’m still working on getting my patch of tomatoes and zucchini into the program, I’d get a Honda Trail 125 to zip around on fire roads and such. I wouldn't mind being born into world like that.
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I am certain that there are many factors that contribute to “best guns” not being utilized by winners of clay target shoots. A few that come to mind are, in no particular order:
Numerical, best guns are simply far less common than basic target guns.
Owners of best guns tend to be beyond their prime by the time they come to own them.
Best guns are seldom built in a target configuration. They tend towards being dynamic rather that a weight forward target favored balance.
There is often a certain hesitancy to pound out the tens or hundreds of of thousands of rounds through a best gun. This due to concerns about reduction in condition/value ratio as well as recoil issues with a dynamic handling gun.
Very few best guns have over 30” barrels so the longer ones favored today are very uncommon.
A lot of what are called best guns are actually very old, in bad repair are best guns in name only.
Most best gun owners are hesitant to modify a stock, barrel or choke that a Browning or Beretta owner would do as a matter of course. (I have certainly seen a few exceptions.)
All that being said I have certainly seen a lot of shoots won with best guns. More so if Italian best are included.
When travel is involved there can be a certain hesitancy to take a best gun on a plane etc.
Many times best guns are shot with a recreational intent rather than a competitive one. The way some folks break out their Jaguar on a pretty Sunday afternoon rather than for Friday night drag races.
Personally I have won both pigeon and clay target shoots with a wide variety of guns that could be considered “best” in any company. This would include one linked in this thread and another that was mentioned.
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Richard hit the nail on the head
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