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Given the finicial state your in now, time machine back.
Would your hard earned dollar go for a American gun maybe a Parker or Fox. Or a tool to use just to put game on the table, maybe a Crescent. Or perhaps your a doctor and perfered that Purdy. Back then all these where made to be used, what would your income or means allow you to purchase?
I'll go first...........i prolly would think of myself buying a V grade Parker, or perhaps a G grade Lefever. Maybe if the crops did well one year i could buy something with modest engraving. Prolly not a Optimus though!
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I would be buying Boss shotguns as fast as I could find them - for resale as soon as the time machine returned me to now. (Would have to keep a couple for myself though). Certainly will never afford one at today's prices. Also scoop up any Diamond and Diamond Regent grade Lindner Daly's I might encounter. The one Diamond grade I found at a semi reasonable price was the slickest gun I ever handled (sold it though).
Need to put an "e" in Purdy if you mean the English Best shotguns and not the Belgium name knock off.
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I would likely buy a Merkel O/U in 16 ga as I prefer to hunt with them over sxs guns. I put more credance in guns that I shoot well, than those of bigger names. I guess I am too practical.
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Given my present financial status, using the Tardis and going back in time, I would purchase Purdey, Boss, Holland & Holland, and Westley Richards.Not the guns, the Factories and the Names.
Must sign off now, Nurse says it's time for my medication.
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Buy land. Poor land for farming in those days is selling for top dollar now. My family was poor in those days and had to buy low land that did not grow many crops well. Now this same land in in high demand. Real estate brokers call it water front property and one farm, which was bought for $4,500 in 1913, just sold for a little over $9,000,000.00. Pity is that is is on the other side of the family. Oh well.
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I'd go with a Parker PH model myself.
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That's precious, Sal. Given my immense relative financial leverage, I was considering the Willy Welly Greener operation--lock, stock and many barrels. Sherman! Set the Wayback machine for waaaay back!
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Cheap when new, pricey when minty - Parker Vhe smallbores.
...and maybe Philly Sterlingworths also in the smallish.
To walk on the wildside, Remington hammerless guns.
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A set of Remington Hammerless Guns in EEO-Grades -- 10-gauge with full pistol grip and 32-inch barrels for waterfowl, 12-gauge 30-inch straight grip no-safety Pigeon gun, and a straight grip 16-gauge bird gun with 28-inch barrels; and all the waterfront land around lake Coeur d'Alene I could find.
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I'd want a late 1920s vintage LC Smith Featherweight 16 with hi- rib, ejectors, 28" IC/F, a half-pistol grip and splinter forend, and Ideal Grade wood and engraving. Second would be a Grade 1 NID 10-bore with "magnum" (2 7/8") chambers, same style stock and forend, extractors, and 32" barrels bored IM/Full. You can see I favor "engravin' that you can see acrost the room"!
These guns just strike me as being as American as doubles can be, and lifelong shooters.
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