Thanks Vikram,
Its really very difficult to describe a beautiful 'mental' objet de art of M/s Harmann et Weiss, translated to its pristine , manifestation..
Had an experience similar to penpusher's yesterday-went to a gun shop here in Delhi-Mostly loaded with 12's ranging from Baikal O/U to Dwarka fiber pistol grip shorty 12's to a lone pump.
Not being much of a shotgun man, eye fell on two 'wrapped in polythene' rifles-Asked to see them
1.BSA-30/06 plain jane with a williams sight.3 lacs
2.BSA 315-enfield action,scoped, with an ancient 2-6 scope, on early pattern QD mounts-"original BSA , will fire the Indian 315, which was copied from this." asking price-1.75 lacs
3.Charles Lancaster 12 -30 " barrel-dubbed self opening.Very well maintained gun.Has been reblued once.90K
4.Walther CO2 version of the cp99, in the box-16k
Managed to get a couple of snaps of the lancaster, action open without the fore end and not falling into 2.Will post later.
Looks like IFG must set up a foreign fund and pick up classics -1 each of Double heavy-Obviously first, shotgun, hand gun-so that visiting members can atleast have a an out of body experience -at in in body prices,for perpetuity!
best
Axx