$200K Rifle ?!?!
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C-grunt
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That cost as much as my house. The wood on it sure is pretty. But man... for that price Ill buy a red car with a yellow horse on it.
krs
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The seller's just attracting attention with that listing and has five pages of other tacky guns for much lower prices. This one's gotten over 500 views, so it's working for him.
SeekHer
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Well, it all depends on your pocket books, your position in the social standing, your vocation and QV, your station in life—so to speak, doesn't it!
$!,000 a week = No chance in Hell,
$1,000 a day = Maybe with some savings cashed in,
$1,000 an hour = No problem,
$1,000 a minute = What, no diamonds?!?!
That piece of wood was bought for $12,000 without anything done to it...Finished it is exquisite...
As I'm the proud owner of a number of inherited bespoke firearms by Westley Richards, Holland & Holland, Churchill, W.W. Greener, J. Rigby, Boss, McNaughton, Fraser and Farquharson and the replacement cost for insurance is quite high...Cheapest bolt action WR rifle is £18,500.00 British Pound or $30, 364.00 US or $33.582.00 CAD with NO fancy wood and NO engraving (except a monogram gold oval), just sights and scope rings, both interchangeable and a double rifle starts three (3) times that much! Even a Searcy will set you back $20,000+ depending on wood and options...
For you synthetic, plastic crowd, remember that a very good tactical rifle with scope made by the likes of Iron Brigade or Texas Armory etc. are about $8,000 to $9,000 w/optics
That Hoenig is a pure delight, I've had the privilege to meet the maker and shoot one of his 20 bore O/U round action shotguns...It's the stuff that wet dreams are made of! I still drool over the event!
I really wish you hadn’t posted that as I am (maybe now was) looking for a 9.3 Rimmed for a moose gun...I really don't like you!
but you did steer me to a beauty…Thanks!...Now, if I can find a shotgun of his, 16 or 28 bore preferred but would take a 20 in a pinch!
F.Y.I. At the SCI (Safari Club Int.) convention a few years ago Peter Hofer sold his vierling (four barrel) .IIRC 17 HMR (?) done up with hornets in gold and other stuff in a $25,000+ stick of wood for a cool million and had orders for 5 more, albeit, without that much relief engraving…
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Just because something is far above your price range don't muckrake the piece but admire its beauty, exquisite workmanship, shape, lines...More expensive then your house, probably, your car, very probably but maybe not the poster above or below you in the thread…Now a solid gold Desert Magnum might be worth a lot of money (gold value) and a lot of "Bling factor" but it’s ugly…if owned by Saddam Hussein then the piece gets historical provenance and a steeper price tag but it’s still damn ugly!
Admire it for the man hours of hand labour, fitting, carving that went into making it...A gorgeous piece but a little above my price range is a very nice way to say I'm broke and could never buy that unless I won a lottery...
$!,000 a week = No chance in Hell,
$1,000 a day = Maybe with some savings cashed in,
$1,000 an hour = No problem,
$1,000 a minute = What, no diamonds?!?!
That piece of wood was bought for $12,000 without anything done to it...Finished it is exquisite...
As I'm the proud owner of a number of inherited bespoke firearms by Westley Richards, Holland & Holland, Churchill, W.W. Greener, J. Rigby, Boss, McNaughton, Fraser and Farquharson and the replacement cost for insurance is quite high...Cheapest bolt action WR rifle is £18,500.00 British Pound or $30, 364.00 US or $33.582.00 CAD with NO fancy wood and NO engraving (except a monogram gold oval), just sights and scope rings, both interchangeable and a double rifle starts three (3) times that much! Even a Searcy will set you back $20,000+ depending on wood and options...
For you synthetic, plastic crowd, remember that a very good tactical rifle with scope made by the likes of Iron Brigade or Texas Armory etc. are about $8,000 to $9,000 w/optics
That Hoenig is a pure delight, I've had the privilege to meet the maker and shoot one of his 20 bore O/U round action shotguns...It's the stuff that wet dreams are made of! I still drool over the event!
I really wish you hadn’t posted that as I am (maybe now was) looking for a 9.3 Rimmed for a moose gun...I really don't like you!
but you did steer me to a beauty…Thanks!...Now, if I can find a shotgun of his, 16 or 28 bore preferred but would take a 20 in a pinch!F.Y.I. At the SCI (Safari Club Int.) convention a few years ago Peter Hofer sold his vierling (four barrel) .IIRC 17 HMR (?) done up with hornets in gold and other stuff in a $25,000+ stick of wood for a cool million and had orders for 5 more, albeit, without that much relief engraving…
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Just because something is far above your price range don't muckrake the piece but admire its beauty, exquisite workmanship, shape, lines...More expensive then your house, probably, your car, very probably but maybe not the poster above or below you in the thread…Now a solid gold Desert Magnum might be worth a lot of money (gold value) and a lot of "Bling factor" but it’s ugly…if owned by Saddam Hussein then the piece gets historical provenance and a steeper price tag but it’s still damn ugly!
Admire it for the man hours of hand labour, fitting, carving that went into making it...A gorgeous piece but a little above my price range is a very nice way to say I'm broke and could never buy that unless I won a lottery...
Andy_C
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I'd buy it, but I wouldn't have the $35 left for my FFL transfer
Badger Arms
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Better two hundred $1,000 guns than one $200,000 gun. $1,000 gets you a decent bolt action, scope, sling, and $199,000 for ammo!
22-rimfire
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Beautiful rifle. I have no background to judge the pricing, nor can I afford such a museum piece. Look great! Someone will buy it, wait and see. It will probably get taken off the auction and sold. This is pure marketing.
P.B.Walsh
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If I even had that kind of $$$$$$$$$$$$$, and bought it, I would be VERY scared to take it out of it's bulletproof glass case.
It it a very nice piece of art though.
It it a very nice piece of art though.
Sniper X
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Shoot, that is a beauty. I have heard there are a lot of over 100K rifles out there that are pretty basic compared to that and of course, most I have seen that are over 100K...well over sometimes are doubles. Some are amazing, as is that one actually....brilliant.
Jorg Nysgerrig
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It's one of those things where if you don't get it, no amount of explaining will help.
earlthegoat2
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Whats the cheapest double barrel I can get. I only want to spend 250.
Supertac45
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I'd rather pick up a Nosler with a nice piece of wood.
oneounceload
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Ain't that the truth.
Some folks would prefer a poster of a Coors Light girl to the Mona Lisa - OK
AB - that rifle was cool - I had never seen one like that. If I had the 30K that would on its way home to me.......
offthepaper
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Beautiful, no doubt.
Imagine that one being confiscated during a Katrina type event.
:banghead:
Imagine that one being confiscated during a Katrina type event.
:banghead:
Badger Arms
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They'd better send at least six officers. The first five will only be taking bullets with them.
P.B.Walsh
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ummm, I'd rather have the picture of the Coors Light girl...
Maverick223
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That is probably the most beautiful action/engraving combo that I have ever seen. I'll take two.Mp7 said:
Hey me too, make mine a .470NE.earlthegoat2 & ArmedBear said:
Precision Paper Puncher
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man, i'd give my left nut for that... absolutely beautiful.
P.B.Walsh
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^^^^^not me!!!!!
Precision Paper Puncher
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I've got 4 girls, pretty sure they came from that one anyway....LOL
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