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]
