Pioneer Arms Coach Guns

[langloisandy]

Gents,

I spent the weekend at a Cowboy Shoot and met hung out a the Pioneer Arms Co. booth for a while chatting with Kage (the logisitics dude from Pioneer). Lemme tell ya, way way way way way way way cool guns. Well made and ever so smooth actions, decent triggers and some damn fine wood.  I took a few photos and did a quicky writeup on my blog.

http://andysgunthoughts.wordpress.com/pioneer-arms-coach-gun/

I NEED to get one of these!

Andy

[fightingquaker13]

Very cool. How much?
FQ13

[langloisandy]

FQ,

Oh yeah, pricing!  1100ish??? Somewhere in that range. I balked at that until I felt it and changed my mind....worth it.

Thinking back on the doubles I had, and the breakages, I probably had FAR more than that into one Rossi! 

Andy

[fightingquaker13]

Too rich for the Quaker's blood, but still a cool toy. I saw that someone was making a reproduction of the old Greeners at about the same price point. I'd research those before buying.
FQ13
PS look at some of the larger fine shot gun dealers like Chadicks and New Englan Arms (not the gun maker, these guys just deal in old shot guns). You might be able to get an authentic turn of the century double hammer for a whole lot less. They will be damascus and BP only, but very cool guns for about five bills. The extra $600 will let you reload a whole lot of BP shells.

[langloisandy]

FQ,

This is a Greener repro.....might be this one that you are thinking of!

Andy

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[fightingquaker13]

FQ,

This is a Greener repro.....might be this one that you are thinking of!

Andy

And indeed it would be. I just couldn't tell from the thumb nail. Assuming pioneer does it right, they are great guns. I got to fondle a couple of original and they are built like bank vaults and very pretty (though a leeetle more than $1100 ).
Good luck
FQ13

[twyacht]

Dixie gun works. ALOT less than $1100, or thereabouts. This one is $475,

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=15034



Uberti makes a great one, not too bad on cost either, also check EMF Arms.

Can't go wrong with a good "scatter-gun" . When you "whip" this out, folks scatter,....

[MAUSERMAN]

+ one onthe last comment. You see those twin tubes coming your way its time to get the hell out of dodge.

[Michael Bane]

Gotta agree with Andy...the Pioneer may be the best coach gun ever made. After handling several at Winter Range this year, it went straight onto the short list of must-haves. I keep a coach gun (an ancient 12 gauge Stoeger) accessible along with my Vang Comp 870 because it's what my Sweetie shoots in cowboy action.

Funny story...when I lived in a banger neighborhood in Tampa years and years ago, I got an old Stoeger 12 gauge, spray painted all the wood black and had the metal bumper-chromed. Next time I saw one of the warlords, I invited him in and showed him the pimped-out new gun while regaling him with stories of my "special" magnum 12 gauge handloads loaded with both #00 buck and pieces of busted glass (if you're gonna lie, lie big I say!). Within 24 hours the whole neighborhood knew about "that crazy M-F'er and his freaking nickle-plated cannon." Never got robbed, needless to say...

BTW, you always get what you pay for!

Michael B

[sanjuancb]

Are these shotguns available with fixed chokes? I would think that the 24" barreled model would be quite the ticket for bird hunting if something besides cylinder bore is available.