Recent Grullas, Arrietas, and AYA #2s all feel like real guns since the makers started stocking them full length and installing the odd semi-beavertail. When I sold made to order AYA #2s for $2600 or less, we were too naive to understand what a deal they were, so I continued to sell them and never bought one. I had a couple of AYAs from earlier days in my shooting battery and never thought I needed a smallbore. Recently, I bought a 28" .410 AYA #2 and I am smitten. I remember when Warren Page bought a Dakin 20 bore, (now a Grulla 215) and sang its praises in his Field and Stream column. It was highly engraved, under six pounds, and we couldn't get anything else like that weight back in those mid fifties unless it was a worn out Flues or Sterlingworth. Now that the #2 is almost twice the price of a few years ago, and the Grulla and Arrieta even more, they are still a bargain.
