Only $370,000.00.
Posted on 08/25/2008 3:58:21 AM PDT by sig226
When most of us think of a house gun, we think of a gun that sits in the house. I like the ones that cost as much as a house. So far, the best collection I've seen is at DeWing's in West Palm Beach, Florida. I was driving around the city and I saw a sign that said, "Gun Store." Well, I've got to go in there.
DeWing's
Here's a nice Boss 28/410 gauge set.
Only $370,000.00.
This David Brown 28 gauge is only $85,000.00, if you prefer a condo gun. 
Beretta has a gallery in New York City, and another one in Dallas.
Berreta Gallery
An SO9 runs around $50,000.00 right now, so I can only guess what an SO10 EELL (EELL is the highest grade) might cost. An SO6 EELL is also less than the SO10, I think. Beretta does not post prices. I assume this is because if you have to ask, you can't afford it.
If you prefer a truck gun, you can always visit with Griffin and Howe in Bernardsville, New Jersey, or Greenwich, Connecticut. Several of their offerings cost as much as a nice F-350. They also have a couple of Stoegers on the list, so if you'd like to visit, you might actually buy something.
Griffin and Howe
They use large format images, so I won't post them here. There are some nice A.H. Fox guns, pre '64 Winchesters, and the like.
Of course, Cabella's also offers a selection of fine guns. This Merkel .470 Nitro Express double rifle is only $11,999.00 
So if you're planning your next safari, or just can't figure out what to do with all the money Auntie Wilma left you in her will, I hope these links and pictures were helpful.
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Wow, very nice! Now, where are those Freepers that are going to tell me that these guns are going to be taken out in the field to go hunting?
Woof!..them sure are pretty.
Don’t know about the hunting but we have had several Berettas that ran 30-40K in the gun corral at our fall Turkey Shoot for the Boy Scouts. The older the boys the more expensive their toys applies. Their are usually some family heirlooms present as well. The camp uses Berettas but they are the plain black ones the expensive ones are usually expensive because of their artistic beauty.
If I could afford such a gun comfortably, why not?
I know people that drive $80,000 cars around. I know people that drive $200,000 (and often more) motor homes around.
If you buy a gun for it’s artwork to put on the wall, buy a couple of paintings for the same price instead.
Especially the Nitro. I’d love to be able to afford it and pack it on a safari.
That said, the most expensive weapon I own is a genuine, full auto H&K MP5SD3. It set me back over $10K about 5 yrs ago, now I see them being sold for almost twice that. If a $370K gun is considered a "house gun", I guess you consider mine a "used car gun."
I have seen some very expensive Berretta’s at the local Army post trap and skeet ranges. I have ehard the guys using them talk about spending $20K or more on the gun and than having it customized for them by a gunsmith. I guess that you are right about the older boys toys and their prices.
There’s hunting and then there’s shooting. If you were to book a date of grouse shooting in Scotland, you’d be driven to the field in a Land Rover and dropped off at your grouse butt. You’d stand and shoot as the drivers flushed the grouse toward the butts. The only danger to your guns (you’d probably be shooting a matched pair) would be if either you or your loader dropped one in the exchange (loading one’s own guns slows down the shooting, and who needs the bother anyway?).
Extra fancy Presentation type guns are probably destined to live their life in the display cabinet, but there are plenty of very expensive guns that are indeed shot in the field. If I were able to afford one, a David McKay Brown gun would at the top of my list.
There’s hunting and then there’s shooting. If you were to book a date of grouse shooting in Scotland, you’d be driven to the field in a Land Rover and dropped off at your grouse butt. You’d stand and shoot as the drivers flushed the grouse toward the butts. The only danger to your guns (you’d probably be shooting a matched pair) would be if either you or your loader dropped one in the exchange (loading one’s own guns slows down the shooting, and who needs the bother anyway?).
Extra fancy Presentation type guns are probably destined to live their life in the display cabinet, but there are plenty of very expensive guns that are indeed shot in the field. If I were able to afford one, a David McKay Brown gun would at the top of my list.
Actually I do know people who bird hunt (not just shoot) with their custom sidelock (generally, more reliable and complicated than boxlocks) shotguns. One anethesiologist I met a few years ago has a matched pair of side-by-side Piottis. Old man Piotti personally fitted the fellow for his guns. Each gun cost about $20,000.
The doctor has gone through North Woods alder in search of woodcock and ruffed grouse so the stock has already been scratched. The engraving on his guns is fairly simple but the wood is absolutely magnificent.
Although the doctor brought them to Scotland for a couple of driven shoots, his main focus is here in the States.
My most expensive gun is a DU limited edition Browning O/U in 20 gauge. I have no idea how much it cost because I won it in a raffle. I doubt it even approaches these so maybe it’s a “tar paper shack” gun.
I'll simply describe my best as 'Bob Villa specials'...
Ecept for great grandpappys ole single 12 guage, no money will buy that...
Even the screws are engraved.
I can understand how a $300K sportscar would out perform my Silverado, but I can’t understand how a high priced shotgun can perform any better or different than my field gun.
My guns aren’t cheap, but they all see work.
Mine's due in September, the scope in January, if my buddy can score a couple of Schmidt u Benders at the SHOT show.
Dittos ... I’m in the process of switching to .357 for revolver and a lever action rifle for ‘house guns’ using the same ammo. When loaded for home defense they will have hollow points in them, when on the range they will fire mostly .38 special round nose. Tools should be used but not abused.
To me, 'House Gun' is the carry gun is currently sitting on the night stand, or the shotgun hiding behind the cabinet, or the 'Ugly Stick' (Hi-Point 9mm Carbine) in the basement.
$370K for a gun! Wow. I am such a bottom-feeder. ;)
I’m not sure what I’d consider my “house gun.” I try to keep at least one in each room!
I'm regularly called a "basement dweller." I prefer the term, "guardian of the foundation."
couple houses in detroit? so that’s a $100 gun? :P
Good plan.
Ever met a “caveman”?
Troglodyte has a much nicer ring to it ;-)
The new price of the semi automatic FG42 is $10,000.00 plus 10% federal excise tax plus shipping and insurance to the buyers FFL holder.
I've always thought that custom engraving was more fitting on handguns, though I've never owned one meself. The closest I've ever come, or care to come again, is the nice look of a Renaissance Browning Hi-Power.
Troglodyte has a much nicer ring to it ;-)
Let's take the average caveman, at home, listening to his stereo....
“Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, Bertha Butt.”
LOL
Why spend that much on a PSG-1, which fires 7.62, when you can spend less and get a Barrett, which fires .50?
If you want to kill a truck, or a fuel tank, or a satellite dish antenna at 1500 meters, yep, the Barrett is indeed the better choice. But if you want a better than 50% probability of hitting the truck driver, or the tech hooking up the antenna at the same range, and you have to carry your own rifle, and your ammo, and your food and water, and maybe a radio and some other useful novelties, the PSG-1 might be the way to go.
And certainly there are other semiauto sniper and target rifles that shoot as well or nearly as well as the PSG-1, some costing much less. But whether they will remain capable of that same level of accuracy after a thousand rounds, or 3000, or 5000 is something else again.
I know of three very capable and qualified shooters who have their choice of equipment, anything in the world, and they took PSG-1s as their semiauto. And I've known one of them since 1998, and though he shoots around a thousand a year through it, last year it still shot as well as it did ten years and circa 10,000 rounds ago.
Well that sounds like a trustworthy piece to have. What about the SR-25? If I had any choice of long-range semi-auto, that would probably be it, if only because it’s used by the SEALs.
I know one guy who actually bought one of those things. It was a Lapua, too. We all looked at that little muzzle brake and even though it weighed 16 pounds, no thank you.
Have fun. :)
I have a Winchester 1886 in 45-90. It has the traditional curved "rifle butt", known even in those days as a "pain intensifier". Shot a lot of 500 gr cast bullets through it.
The welt on my shoulder, and the partial paralysis, only lasted a couple of days.
Ahh.. I like that. A touch of class in and amongst the roomsfull of $100 rifles.
They have a great many novelties in their toybox, and the SR-25 is certainly one that was very highly thought of in that community. Lately, seems to be the big item on their want lists....
Not quite a thousand yard rifle, but pretty damned close.
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Beats the Mark 48 in rounds per minute.
Just so. But it's not in 7,62 x 52mm NATO.
The equivalent Stoner gun would be the Stoner 62 LMG, which never reached large-scale production or adoption.
Wish I had such a collection. I keep a basic Remington Express 12 Gauge within reach at all times at my place. Still deciding whether I should switch to 00 shot over the 1 shot I keep handy.
Not quite a thousand yard rifle, but pretty damned close.
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The 7.62 NATO can do the job out to a thousand meters pretty well, and it looks like you've got enough glass on top to be able to see what you're doing out that far.
I once was out with a commanding officer of mine who had been snookered into a bet with a British Royal Marine veteran of the Falklands War who favoured the British L42A1, essentially a WWII #4 Lee-Enfield rebarrelled to 7,62 and topped with a 4x scope. The bet was on a leaky 5-gallon Jerrycan on the 1000 meter line: for every hit the Brit made my boss owed him a dollar; for every miss the Brit would pay him two.
Thirty-six dollars in the hole later, my boss called it quits. Two misses out of forty tries made it pretty clear that the RM shooter had things pretty well dialed in. And that was with the British 144-grain L2A1 ball ammo, not match loads.
With 175grain M118LR or Black Hills equivalent, you ought to be able to do about as well....
The most expensive firearm I think I ever held was an original Henry. Looked like crap when the owner handed it to me, and told me NOT to drop it. (I had already handled a pristine looking one and no such warning was given.) I sorta gave him a funny look; he stated that it was used at the battle of the Little Big Horn - by the winning side! Which explained why it looked like crap. I mean the crap part was all the decorations on it, most of which appeared to be upholstery tacks.
I did something very similar to an Ishapore Enfield I bought a few years back. Put a synthetic 'sporter' stock on it, had a gunsmith drill and tap it, smooth up the trigger a bit, and then topped it with a decent 4 power glass.
While I haven't had the chance to work it out at 1K meters, at 400 yards I've had no trouble ringing an old 10 inch cast iron skillet like a church bell.
I wish I'd bought half a dozen of those Ishies...
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The glass is an original Springfield Armory rangefinding scope. I know they had a rep for 'poor quality', but I haven't had any issues with mine.
Maybe I got lucky.
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The Brits beworked their #4s a bit differently than the Indians did, using a stamped sheet-metal ejector spotwelded to the magazine body rather than the original Enfield screw-in ejector. The rimless 7,62 Nato cartridge was not what the Enfield was designed for....
I wish I'd bought half a dozen of those Ishies...
There are still some around to be had, though not at the remarkably low prices for which they once could be obtained. And now I can pick up Youg M48 Mausers for what an Ishapore 2A runs.
I've always preferred the #4, mostly for personal reasons, though the headspace adjustment via different sized bolt heads is a nice touch, and the #4 is a bit easier to fit with a scope mount.
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