The other day I tried to count all my shotguns I own and I've ever owned. I think it's over a hundred. It took me twenty some years. I still own over three dozen. I can't be sure. Except of one thing:
The only time in a lifetime of gun trading I've ever bought, on sight, the first one I ever saw, before I even picked it up, for the most money I've ever paid for a shotgun, was my Caeser Guerini 34" Summit Limited. Oh my Good Gods in Heaven is it gorgeous.
I've shot, but never owned, Kreighoffs, Perazzis, Beretta DT-10's, Blazers, English best guns, Spanish best guns, and I even own a Superposed. The Guerini compares only to those. It honestly, truly compares to the finest guns in the world. I didn't say it was their equal, but it's all you can compare them to.
I've owned and will continue to own 101's, Beretta 680somethings, Franchis, Citoris, Rugers, Valmets, Aya's and other mid grade Spanish guns, Charles Dalys, and I may even someday buy a Winchester Select, but I doubt it. But none of them are in the same class with a Guerini.
I own a scad of auto and pump shotguns, too. None of them compare with a Super X Model One. There's nothing to compare it with but a Cosmi, and Cosmis cost some stupid amount of money you could buy a fine double for, so they don't count. The Super X is in a class all by itself.
So is the Guernini. I've heard and read about Rizzinnis, and they may be in a Guerini's class. Maybe not. I haven't seen one. But a Guerini is about half the money of a Blazer, that starts the fine gun class, and a third the money of a bottom end Perazzi and Krieghoff. And a Guereni is only a little more than half again as expensive as the B guns or a Ruger. For your extra eight hundred bucks or so, you get more gun than eight hundred extra dollars you spend. Way, way more. Real Circassian walnut, real oil finish, perfect wood, gorgeous case colors, wonderful engraving, much much much better fit and finish and design and handling and everything better than the middle priced class of doubles.
I may be wrong, but I believe that either Guerini will have to raise prices or go broke. I called them, and they told me they make 2,000 guns a year. Geez. How do they do that? I wonder what they spend on advertising alone. There's no way under the heaven and earth they can sell only 2000 guns that retail for three grand, for only six million bucks a year GROSS, and clear 600 thousand a year profit if they are good and lucky,,,,when a big grocery store will sell more in a year. That's a tiny business, folks. The worst part is, if they raise prices they may go broke, too. If they raise prices they may not even sell 2,000 guns a year.
Go buy a Guerini. They can't go on doing this. Whichever way it falls, somebody will be able to fix your gun. They aren't complicated at all. But once upon a time a company named Browning sold this wonderful shotgun named a Superposed for 300 bucks, about twice the price of a Remington Model 1100 at the time. That didn't last either.