Good on you, Mate- for your analysis of the "pub crawl brawl" we both have sensed here- credability much be crudability to some, one man's Foster Lager is another man's Flying Philadelphia Fig- what difference does it make, excepting maybe if Bill Gates was a gun enthusiast, how many of use could own and shoot them all long enough to really know-most durable guns will be (hopefully) passed on to another generation- Being a devout pre-64 Winchester man, I recall that Parker Ackley once rebarreled a 12 gauge Model 1897 pump into 30-06 and it functioned without a flaw afterwards- Edwin Puglsey took two Model 21 20 gauges and had them rebarreled in the custom shop in .405 cal. express rifles (believe one is in the Cody Museum now) and I have a Model 12 Pigeon Grade Trap gun made in 1948 (old milled rib, 30" Imp. Mod. choke) that was purchased new in that year- and shot continously from 1948 until 1975 by a ATA class A shooter averaghing over 250,000 registered targets (16, doubles and handicap) plus all the practice rounds- still has original firing pin, works like it was new-RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..