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For anyone who wants the designation of owning the most expensive DR on the AR forum, Jaqua's just posted a Purdy 600 NE on Guns International today. The price is listed as "On Request", but I'll bet it starts with at least a "2"! | ||
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Went and took a look. A stunning firearm that I do not want at any price. Wonder why we almost never see a Hartmann & Weiss for sale? | |||
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Biebs, nice looking gun. It has a funny safety though. It's so tiny your finger would probably slide right over it  Dave DRSS Chapuis 9.3X74 Chapuis "Jungle" .375 FL Krieghoff 500/.416 NE Krieghoff 500 NE "Git as close as y can laddie an then git ten yards closer" "If the biggest, baddest animals on the planet are on the menu, and you'd rather pay a taxidermist than a mortician, consider the 500 NE as the last word in life insurance." Hornady Handbook of Cartridge Reloading (8th Edition). | |||
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My guess is most of the H&W double rifles are still in Europe. DRSS NRA life AK Master Guide 124 | |||
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Could someone please post the item number of it. | |||
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$225,000.00 Deo Vindice, Don Sons of Confederate Veterans Black Horse Camp #780 | |||
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500N, item number is 100124676. Don, I'm sure if the safety was more to your liking, your check would be on the way at this very moment, right???? | |||
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Jon, I told them to box it up and send it to your house..........C.O.D. of course. Deo Vindice, Don Sons of Confederate Veterans Black Horse Camp #780 | |||
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Hope they can make change! | |||
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If I were a millionaire I wouldn't pay that much money for any rifle ever built! ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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Not that I am in the market....but I can think of several historically significant firearms that are worth this much and a whole lot more. Not at all sure that this one fits the bill. | |||
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I going to buy it but it doesn't have a recoil pad and a .600 is pretty stout. I think it needs this to make it look right and be comfortable to shoot:  Heck, on second thought, I'll pass. The $13.95 plus shipping for the slip-on pad is a bid more than I'm willing to go. It would have added a bit of class to the gun, though. JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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 Waaaaaay too gawdy for me! JW | |||
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Id rather have one that has a history and have killed many heads of game than a safe queen. That gun screams nouveau riche even though it is made by Purdey. I like scroll patterns ect over hunting scenes and animal portraits even though I see the skill in it. 577 BME 3"500 KILL ALL 358 GREMLIN 404-375 *we band of 45-70ers* (Founder) Single Shot Shooters Society S.S.S.S. (Founder) | |||
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If I had a big enough bank, I would buy it in a heart beat, after some negotiation of course.  | |||
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I would have them etch the price I paid for it into that metal butt plate. Then every night after shooting it I'd see a bruise with the price tag on it to remind me how much I paid for this punishment. ____________________________ If you died tomorrow, what would you have done today ... 2018 Zimbabwe - Tuskless w/ Nengasha Safaris 2011 Mozambique - Buffalo w/ Mashambanzou Safaris | |||
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 577 BME 3"500 KILL ALL 358 GREMLIN 404-375 *we band of 45-70ers* (Founder) Single Shot Shooters Society S.S.S.S. (Founder) | |||
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That is very good. | |||
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"Nouveau Riche" says is all. Someone trying to "Buy" history and tradition with a big check. I'm sure the Purdy folks rolled their eyes when the Macho-Man ordered it with a steel buttplate, like he was too much a man to need a recoil pad on a 600 NE. Some people should not be allowed to have money. | |||
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Here's the deal, at least as I see it. Yeah, this an an ego gun, nothing but. Nothing wrong with that, necessarily. However, spending six fgures on a DG is not, ipso facto, nuts. An awful lot of well informed people believe that H&H bulds the best double rifles on the planet. Go to London (twice, most likely)to be fitted. Write several positively enormous checks, even if you go (as I would) with the round action, and no engraving. If you can do it, spending a whole bunch of money on a firearm which which to hunt animals that can and will kill you is a pretty good idea, so long as you learn to use it. Not my problem...I max out at .375 (and WAY less jack). Good hunting. | |||
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A big +1 to all the above! Brett DRSS Life Member SCI Life Member NRA Life Member WSF Rhyme of the Sheep Hunter May fordings never be too deep, And alders not too thick; May rock slides never be too steep And ridges not too slick. And may your bullets shoot as swell As Fred Bear's arrow's flew; And may your nose work just as well As Jack O'Connor's too. May winds be never at your tail When stalking down the steep; May bears be never on your trail When packing out your sheep. May the hundred pounds upon you Not make you break or trip; And may the plane in which you flew Await you at the strip. -Seth Peterson | |||
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Here's the thing with this gun - the man who did the engraving, Ken Hunt. You could get the same gun for less if Ken Kunt didn't do the engraving. I think engraving like that from him goes in the $50 to $75K range. I could be wrong, but he is respected as being one of the best who studied under Henry Kell. 577NitroExpress Double Rifle Shooters Society Francotte .470 Nitro Express  If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming... | |||
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If a fellow could afford that gun, he could afford to use it. Nothing wrong with that. Not my prefference for the engraving and fill, but at least the animals look like what they are supposed to represent, unlike so many of the older boxlocks with God know what, and those lame tigers, etc. The worst aspect of that rifle is the cheekpiece, imo. Really, collecting these rifles without the intent of using them is as pointless as it gets, but no less pointless than stamp or coin collecting. JPK Free 500grains | |||
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Totally agreed, but it's pretty hard to know what a tiger, rhino, or elephant looks like if all you ever did 100 years ago was sit at a work bench in London.  Brett DRSS Life Member SCI Life Member NRA Life Member WSF Rhyme of the Sheep Hunter May fordings never be too deep, And alders not too thick; May rock slides never be too steep And ridges not too slick. And may your bullets shoot as swell As Fred Bear's arrow's flew; And may your nose work just as well As Jack O'Connor's too. May winds be never at your tail When stalking down the steep; May bears be never on your trail When packing out your sheep. May the hundred pounds upon you Not make you break or trip; And may the plane in which you flew Await you at the strip. -Seth Peterson | |||
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Mac, Wouldnt it look good in the pile of doubles on the pool table at 4K! Double Rifle Shooters Society | |||
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An idle rich person has the power to purchase that .600ne and spend his excess idle time giving it some serious field history. | |||
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I think you call the style "mobile home rococo". The bas relief on the rifle reminds me of too big a set of plastic tits on a chick that looked good already.... Sometimes there is just too much of a good thing. When I win the lottery, I'm just going to go to Purdy or H&H and order a best grade sidelock in .450 N.E. with some nice scroll engraving and I'll bet that the folks who make it will smile as they do. JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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Not "Nouveau -rich" - gun is from an old established East Coast family. Was ordered by a friend of mine to be used as a trophy-room curio - thus the extra fitted csae and heel and toe plates. And, these foks have $$ to burn, hence the rifle's "spare no expense" motif...Not for me either, but would be fun to break out the "good stuff" fire up a few stogies and show off to shooting buddies...I personally would take it to africa and shoot everything from Gresbok to Tuskers with it!! Needs to be proced at 150-160K | |||
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I like rifles that are practical, useful and good looking. This one loses on all three counts, although I do admit that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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So true! But you'd have thought that the Birmingham makers would have sprung for a photo or two to share amoungst the (outsourced?) engravers. JPK Free 500grains | |||
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Do you know the reason why the family is selling such a masterpiece, given that it is obviously not money problems? I can only presume, sadly, that the owner died. I envy the lucky bastard who buys it. As I said before, if money was no object, it would be on its way, right now, to my abode, bugger waiting 3 years for Purdey to build another. I would guess that the replacement cost is considerably further north than the asking price. I was in the Purdey showrooms a couple of years ago and I think the starting price then, for a .600, was 115,000 pounds.  | |||
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Judge, why you never started your own show like Judge Judy,Joe Brown etc is beyond me! All the others would pale in comparison and you would be wealthy enough to take us all to Africa as your personal camp staff! I could see your court with African decor and the bailiffs packing Doubles! Double Rifle Shooters Society | |||
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