Does anyone have a $1/4 million to spend?
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rodinal220
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Buy a Searcy for a lot less. H&H certainly builds fine firearms,but 220k is for the uber wealthy to help them lighten their wallets.
http://www.searcyent.com/main.htm
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It's a déclassé habit of the nouveaux riche to spend silly-money on brand new double rifles. Think of it as the investment bankers version of a Texas BBQ Pistol. If you want to shoot an old design, buy an original old rifle. They are classier, and have real appreciation potential if you know what you are buying.
Case in point: A mere $15K bought me a 1906 John Wilkes (London) double in .450 Nitro Express, with fitted case, 100 pieces of brass, loading dies, and accessories (including a few boxes of Kynoch Solids), with a letter of provinence and date of manufacture provided by the maker. It has appreciated over 3X`in the last 10 years based on realized prices at auction for similar rifles. A John Wilkes Double (a .450#2) was good enough for Pondoro Taylor, and this one is only a half dozen S/N's removed from his. Mine has taken over two dozen tuskers in it's lifetime as well as innumerable Cape Buffalo, up close and personal, and will go back to Africa many times more both during my lifetime and hopefully for many years after I am gone.
Double Rifles are a taste gotten by education, study, and a sense of history and place. With so many good old ones available, buying a new one seems senseless. A new H&H? I'd be afraid to take it on safari.. it might actually get shot... Imagine the horror of soiling the wool bore-mop with that disgusting powder residue...
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Case in point: A mere $15K bought me a 1906 John Wilkes (London) double in .450 Nitro Express, with fitted case, 100 pieces of brass, loading dies, and accessories (including a few boxes of Kynoch Solids), with a letter of provinence and date of manufacture provided by the maker. It has appreciated over 3X`in the last 10 years based on realized prices at auction for similar rifles. A John Wilkes Double (a .450#2) was good enough for Pondoro Taylor, and this one is only a half dozen S/N's removed from his. Mine has taken over two dozen tuskers in it's lifetime as well as innumerable Cape Buffalo, up close and personal, and will go back to Africa many times more both during my lifetime and hopefully for many years after I am gone.
Double Rifles are a taste gotten by education, study, and a sense of history and place. With so many good old ones available, buying a new one seems senseless. A new H&H? I'd be afraid to take it on safari.. it might actually get shot... Imagine the horror of soiling the wool bore-mop with that disgusting powder residue...
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