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Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 694 Location: MN

I have a hard time getting excited about new guns. Rizzini, Beretta, Browning, etc--all pretty much the same-assembly line guns. I'd rather go hunting for a piece of hand made art-a nice Belgian guild gun, a little Ferlach boxlock, an East German Buhag or Genossenschaft double with some real old fashioned handwork. With patience you find something with some charm, patina and for less than you spend for the Rizzinin with the machine engraving.

I know---each to his own---just the way I feel

Good for you :

One who appreciates the vintage items for the nastalgia and function not just a shiney CHROME PLATED Harley part , Well we will have to include Truckers as well , they enjoy shiney things as well.

As a kid I use to take a brace and bit and walk the creeks with logs across the stream and drill a hole in the log down about 2" deep then take 16penny nails and drive them in at 120 degree out at about an approx. 15 degree angle and place a dime or alum can or tin foil down in the bottom of the hole , no need to bait the set a Coon Loves something shiney and would place his hand down in the bottom of the hole and GUESS WHAT HE COULD NOT GET HIS HAND BACK OUT , ALL IT TOOK WAS SOMETHING SHINNEY AND HE WAS ON THE STRECHER .

I think we all could learn from the Coon what not to do , be bit by a shinney marketing trap .

Regards Charles

Member Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 524

You mean a shiny chrome thing like this - youre damn tootin!!
Now if the dang sun would just show itself!!!!! Almost snowed this AM.

This is what the wife and I do when I'm not hunting or fishing.
His and hers HD Deluxes - what a LADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Member Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 1338

ERR...guys, what gauges are these bikes? Cool

This past November I saw a man on a Harley on the Taconic State Parkway, wearing an orange vest and had a gun case on the bike.

I guess he's saving up for the sidecar so the dog can come along.

Member Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 36

O...my

I need to refine my tastes.....or maybe at least try and focus....

I like the shine and sparkle of the new ones....also like the old ones with character and use....also the fancy ones....also the plain functional ones...and the ones needing fixed...large bore...small bore....rare, plentiful, cheap, expensive, with history, without history, american, english, and on and on and on.......etc....

I vote for old also something about a craftsman 80-90 years ago in Philly fitting a Fox by hand vs A computer in japan making a Browning. jig nice bike but tell me why is that suburachie in the background.

How about a couple of each?

Well I guess your right I have a few of each but I still like the old ones better. I use the newer ones for clays and bad weather and save the gems for hunting and special outings. But it is nice to run all the heavy volume through the newer ones. So your right there's a place for both.

I like the old ones also.

But, I can also admire the newer ones too.

Member Joined: 20 Mar 2005 Posts: 1522 Location: NH

Old has it's place but it's nice to be able to put all that you want through a quality new one without worrying about damage to 80-90 year old wood or short chambered barrels. Wink

I think the key is a quality new one vs just a new one.