Hey Jim,
Maybe sound advice, but, maybe not. Over the years I've purchased some guns for the simple reason I could afford them at the moment, and they filled a niche at the time. My very first repeater was a Model 17 Remington pump, purchased in 1976 for $50-it was all I could afford at age 15 when Track, and Golden Gloves practice limited my opportunities for income. I really wanted a new 1100. Pitter patter would describe how I felt at 15 for an 1100.
Well, time went on, and I did get an 1100 eventually, and it went down the road later. The 17 never made anyone's heart skip a beat, but, is one of the very last guns I would part with-my memories of guiding folks with that gun and old dogs no longer along for the trip, and all the little kids (and, sometimes, their Mom's and/or Dad's) who took their first nervous shot at a clay bird with the gun during a gun safety course mean more to me than the few dollars it would bring as a well, WELL used gun today.
I've a friend who owns a Boss hammer gun, has owned it for twenty seasons or more and never fired a single shot with the thing. What an incredible, sad waste of gunmakers talent and his money. But, it is his-do as you wish. Wasted pitter patter if you ask me.
But, at 3200 or so dollars, I wouldn't spend too much time picking a gun apart. Maybe it's just me, but, I want to know how well I shoot a gun regardless of price before I get upset with a flaw in the finish that I'm only going to add more to as the years go by. I don't have $3200 on me at the moment, but, there are guns that sell for a lot more than that, and, regardless of one's station in life, $3200 isn't an expensive gun.
Do we ever get to hear about how it shot? Or, was there another purpose for this gun I'm unaware of? Isn't the "bang" what it's all about in the end?
Best,
Ted
