I've owned both Parker repro's and a launch edition RBL. The repro's are still in my safe and the RBL is long gone.

I looked at the RBL 12 & 16 gauges at the Tulsa show. I'll give galazans credit where it's due and that's all the RBL's they had at the show were eye catchers with real nice wood. But with that said I'm really glad I didn't order a 12 or 16ga RBL. They felt big and clunky, had the same issues of burnt checkering,Etc. You can do much better with $3000.00 if you shop around.