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Done! I put my U.S. Postal code in so they can throw my answers out if they choose. Long live English gunmaking!! (I need them to keep making fine doubles I can buy in future decades when their used price goes down lol).

You may be pleasantly surprised: when one looks at the gun making side of the UK shooting industry, I suspect the export market is at least (probably more) important than the domestic one.

Indeed the "new wave" of makers such as Boxall and Edmiston + Longthorne are probably keen to tap disposable income wherever it sits (by way of example, Longthorne have recently relocated with a view to increasing output to 1000 guns pa, a 10x increase, and I struggle to see anywhere near that many staying in Britain).

Done...Geo

Done...LM

Done...Bill

done good luck

Done. Maybe new hands will make guns like my A&N.

Done, MKII

Done. As a parable, the British used to sell and later even tried to subsidize the manufacture of India paper, light weight and very opaque. (No bleed=through) Printers in America (and others)shopped for the ever cheaper alternatives to shave a few cents off publishing costs. Now we have vastly inferior, yellowing and tanic acid laden paper because in the 1980's the plant that used to shred the rag and hemp fibers was demolished due to lack of revenue. New efforts at even approaching that paper quality are premium priced. Sometimes an educated purchasing decision is warranted, and that applies to British gun making quality, I think. We have to make up our minds to pay a bit more for our own good and the good of the industry, although there is room for debate about what is a reasonable scale concerning "a bit more." Steve

Done