Jorge must be gittin' ready to take a trip to a REALLY high class whorehouse His Sharps NEEDS no embellishment, he has his 405 Win 1895 TR Safari commemoritve and now the double rifle Damn Sailors
You know, Jorge is starting to collect some very nice hardware. Makes you wonder if a rich Aunt died, or now that he is no longer on AD, he is feeding a long pent up gun lust. Either way, that's a good collection.
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It's called having to work AFTER retirement to support this addiction AND a high maintenance wife!
Brent: No pshychobabble, I just have a pathological dislike for that cartridge
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
Brent: No pshychobabble, I just have a pathological dislike for that cartridge
Indeed you do. You should have that looked into sometime. I too was once an anti-45-70er too, but I got over it and now my life has never been better. It could happen to you too
I look at the 45/70 kinds like I look at the RP kooks. Dislike them most (not all) more than I do RP himself!
RAC: Planning on a 2X buff hunt in TZ in 2013.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
Wonderful shootin iron there, Jorge. Thanks for sharing it as it comes along.
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Thanks all. Just recived another note the barrels are being blued. Also the receiver will be CCH and not coin finish. Going for that "Brit Look" without the big bucks!
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
Speaking of 'without the big bucks', do you mind sharing about what kind of dough is required to get your builder to do such a project? I want (needd, actually) to sell or trade off my custom 416 Rigby and go down in recoil to the 9.3x74 round. Want to buy or have built someday a SxS rifle - shotgun combo with a pair of 9.3x74 Barrels and a pair of 20GA barrels. on the same frame and stock. Would be, IMO, one of the more useful travelling to Africa for a combo hunt set ups. THANKS, Mark
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About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
Mark: just go to the Verney-Carron website and email Ken and he can give you a good quote on what you want. I think starting prices for doubles are at around 10.5K
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports.
About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
You can do the coin finish of course, on your own after it has been cased. Takes minutes or an hour or two at most. Easier than falling off a log. It will really show off that nice engraving too. Be a shame not to highlight it.
Just did my target highwall this way (but it is a .45-70 of course), but I only took it half way to what one would consider a true "coin" finish - just to be different. Anyway, it's easy.
Mark: just go to the Verney-Carron website and email Ken and he can give you a good quote on what you want. I think starting prices for doubles are at around 10.5K
I got to look (not fondle, of course) this old thing today at the Frazier History Museum in Louisville this afternoon. You might recognize it as "Big Stick", the H&H that TR took to Africa.................... Sorry about the quality of the pic, but photos weren't allowed anyway, so I was pushing my luck just snapping that one. 'Big Medicine' wasn't there, but they did have an 1895 in .30/40 to represent the breed.
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
Brent: I looked at both finishes with that scroll engraving and the CCH really looked identical to an old style Brit double so that is what I went with. So you took off the CCH and refinished as coin?
My gun is not that far of an upgrade from the basic model guys.
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
"Just did my target highwall this way (but it is a .45-70 of course), but I only took it half way to what one would consider a true "coin" finish - just to be different. Anyway, it's easy."
JorgeI, Thanks for the pictures, it's truely a thing of beauty. Can I ask why you are chambering it for 450 NE 3 1/4" vs they more popular and available 470 NE? Both are great cartridges, the 450 NE is the original, I'm just curious. Stan
Brent: I looked at both finishes with that scroll engraving and the CCH really looked identical to an old style Brit double so that is what I went with. So you took off the CCH and refinished as coin?
My gun is not that far of an upgrade from the basic model guys.
That is such a gorgeous gun, it's hard to think of it as anywhere near entry level. I like CCH, too. I guess as it ages and loses some case colors, it will eventually silver and look more like a coin finish. I like that look, too, and honest wear on a fine gun just adds character.
Jorge must be gittin' ready to take a trip to a REALLY high class whorehouse 
