COREY: Hey, how's it going?
DENNIS: Good.
How are you doing?
What have we got?
Looks like something fancy.
It's very fancy.
COREY: Oh, wow.
Well, I mean, it definitely looks French.
That's about my extent of knowledge on this thing.
Let me grab my dad real quick.
Sure.
Pops, you want to come take a look at this for me?
RICK: What have you got?
Something's catching my eye on it.
I just don't exactly know what it is.
OK.
Let's take a look.
Oh, this is really fancy, Bout-ay or Boutet.
DENNIS: Boutet?
I'm not really good at pronouncing French.
I'm not really good at pronouncing English.
[CHUCKLING]
Boutet, he started doing this right around 1800ish.
He was like the Rembrandt of guns.
I mean before Boutet, there was the art,
and then there was the function.
And then this guy was like the first one
to really combine the both of them.
You had to be really, really wealthy
to have a gun like this.
COREY: Should I give Alex a call?
Well, how much do you want for it?
Because if he wants 50 bucks, I'll just give that now,
and we'll-- [CHUCKLING]
Oh, it's not going for $50.
I'm looking at 10 grand.
OK.
Yeah, give Alex a call.
I mean, it's most likely worth at least that.
It could be more.
I just got a lot of questions on it, and we'll go from there.
All right, I'll call Alex.
What do you think?
ALEX: Holy moly.
Can I pick it up?
Please.
[EXHALE]
This is stunning.
So Boutet was the gunsmith in France in the 18th century
and into the beginning of the 19th century.
He was so good that he was the royal gunsmith
to Louis XVI, who was the final king before the revolution.
And not only was he his gunsmith,
but Napoleon made him his gunsmith.
So the guy had a long career as, basically, the finest gunsmith,
certainly in France, but many people
would argue, in the world.
RICK: OK.
Any idea what it's worth?
So simple Boutets will start easily about $10,000.
One like this, on a scale of 1 to 10 as far as decorative,
this is about a six, so they get very, very decorative.
The one thing I'd like to do is I'd like to test it.
If it fires how I believe it would,
I'd be more comfortable evaluating.
Do you mind meeting us out of the range with it,
so we can test it out?
DENNIS: Sure.
Then we'll meet you out there, OK?
See you at the range, man. Let me grab a piece of paper.
I'll write down the address for you.
Awesome.
I think my wife would get really
mad if I came home and said, I saw a really
nice Boutet at work today.
[CHUCKLING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hello, boys.
Hey.
How's it going?
So the Boutet looks all polished up and ready to go.
ALEX: The Boutet is shiny, yeah.
One of the things I found in this direct sunlight
is actually the barrels are also marked.
So this barrel is marked Boutet.
And then the other side, it's marked
manufactured in Versailles.
And it has a serial number 322, so that actually
might be traceable, which is really
nice to see on the barrels.
All right.
So that's an added bonus.
I brought some shot.
I've got some triple F black powder.
We're going to load about 50 grains,
which is a pretty light load for this,
but just to be safe with it.
And I set up some fruit targets.
COREY: Let's do this.
This shotgun is like a piece of art.
Typically, I wouldn't fire this gun,
but collectors search for firearms like this.
And if it's successful, I do think it'll help the value.
All right, so I think I should shoot it.
I'll shoot it.
I have waited half of my life to shoot a Boutet.
Let me try it.
Alex is going to shoot it.
OK.
All right, here we go.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[GUN SHOTS]
There we go.
That was good.
[CHUCKLING]
So it fires.
It works. - Yeah.
Everything's perfect on it?
ALEX: It functioned exactly as it should function.
And I'm not surprised, because Boutet is the finest
gunmaker of all time.
What do you think it's worth?
I think if this went to auction in this condition,
I wouldn't be surprised to see it sell it for 30,000.
Damn, that much?
It's really nice.
Do you see the smile on my face?
[CHUCKLING]
All right, well, thanks, man.
I'll talk to you later.
You're very welcome.
And it was a pleasure, Dennis.
Thank you for letting me fire it.
My pleasure.
- All right, see you guys. - Nice meeting you.
Good luck.
Take care, man.
All right, so you were asking 10.
I'm assuming you want a little bit more now.
No, I want a lot more.
[CHUCKLING]
All right.
20.
I think that's a pretty fair offer.
I'll give you 15 grand for it.
18.
OK, I'll tell you what.
I'll give you 16 grand for it.
And normally I'd pay you a little bit more,
but something like this, I'm not going to see
money back for a year or two.
And I'm going to be on the level with you.
It's a lot more than I thought I would get.
We'll do 16.
All right, sweet.
All right.
All right, bring it back to shop.
We'll do some paperwork, and I'll get you paid.
So I now own a fine Boutet, not that I haven't always had one.
Well, it took you 50-something years to get one.
[CHUCKLING]