Korth (pronounced ‘Kort’) is a boutique German firearms manufacturer. They don’t make many guns, but every gun they make is bought up instantly by collectors who value exclusivity. Even their production-grade revolvers cost $2,000 each, but calling any Korth a ‘production’ gun is a bit of a stretch since they only make 400 to 600 guns a year.
This pictured gun is the rarest of the rare: one of three engraved .45 ACP prototypes of their $3,000 9mm “Classic” pistol.
And Kyle makes three.
Such a pistol is a work of art, not only in it’s aesthetics but in it’s form and function. It’s an investment piece for some, merely a weapon to others, depending on their means. If one were given to me I’d be torn between the other goodies I could acquire with it’s value, the satisfaction of owning it, and the desire to put some rounds through it while screaming carpe diem.
Per haps in the end I’d split the difference and shadow box it, loaded, for display and as a break glass in case of emergency item.
It is really beyond me why people, that have never held nor shot a Korth inevitably, whenever the talk about Korth pistols and revolvers comes up on different internet sites, almost trip over their little feet to belittle something they admittedly have never held nor used. That is the worst form of ignorance, pretending to know something about something you know absolutely nothing about.
I enjoy my Korth Revolvers and use them for target practice 3 times a week and have done so for more than 20 years. During that period most of my fellow shooting club members has gone through countless numbers of guns. I recon my son will one day inherit my Korth revolvers and he will properly hand them down to my grandson. A Korth is an investment for life. I personaly find it refreshing that in a time of rampant consumerism some thing are just made the way things should be made the first time and of cause this cost more. In the words of Ruskin:
It is unwise to pay too much, but it is unwise to pay too little.
When you pay too much, you loose a little money; that is all.
When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything.
Because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do.
The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It cannot be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run and if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better.”
John Ruskin ( 1819-1900 )