Tell me about Korth

silvermane_1 said:
bac1023:
thanks for the info on Korth p 122 9mm, it's just i would think that a $12k handmade semi-auto would be a literal tack driver, albeit that has more to with the skill of the individual using it.
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No problem.

P122 is the serial number, not the model number. It's simply called the Korth Autopistol.

It wasn't really designed as a target gun. They range from $10-$12k brand new, as Korth USA still has some in stock. I didn't pay that much. They haven't built any in Germany in over 10 years, so those have been there a while.
 
I was at a shot show in Vegas about 5 years ago, there was some hi-end company had a four double barrel over/under package one of .410g, 20g, 12g. and ???

$440,000

If you need your calc's, that's $110,000 each gun!

Hello Prince Charls'd

(by the way, the most awesome Glock on my part is coming soon.)
 
Glock20/460long wrote:
I was at a shot show in Vegas about 5 years ago, there was some hi-end company had a four double barrel over/under package one of .410g, 20g, 12g. and ???

$440,000

If you need your calc's, that's $110,000 each gun!

Hello Prince Charls'd

(by the way, the most awesome Glock on my part is coming soon.)
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Wow! What did you smoke to come up with such an incomprehensible post???
 
I am sure they are very finely made revolvers of the highest quality. I find them to be the equivalent to fine British game guns in price only. For aesthetically, they are severely lacking. All German engineering and sterility, lacking the graceful elegance of a fine old S&W N-frame or Colt. No comparison to a fine Purdey or H&H double. I have no doubt that they're better, I just don't think it would be worth it to me.

I don't have a problem paying $5000 for a single firearm, it just won't be that one. You don't need a Rolls-Royce and money laying around with nowhere to throw it, just a burning passion to have something truly fine in your life. I was making about $40,000/yr when I bought a $4000 Merkel double. It was important to me, so I made it happen and I have never regretted it. I make a lot more than that now but just as it took me a while to pay off that Merkel, I've done without a lot of things and waited several years before having a custom .500 Ruger Bisley built. Some things are worth saving your money and waiting for. Don't assume that everyone who spends that kind of coin on a firearm is stupid rich and bored, wondering where to get the next $10,000 toy.
 
The 4 O/U field set is from Perazzi - 12, 20, 28 and 410 - in their SCO or higher grade - it is on display at every SHOT show. Great shotguns, built to go the distance, Perazzis win the majority of Olympics medals. That's enough side step here in the handgun section
 
In several pictures above the Korth revolver appears to have something that looks like a stainless collar at the muzzle. What on earth is that?
 
After Willi Korth sold his company, the new owners went to sleeved barrels to cut cost. The old Korth facility in Ratzeburg was not a factory by any means but rather a very small custom shop that had outsourced some of the labour, like the bluing which was done by a company in Hamburg, a good 60 miles away.
 
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