Have both a 12 and 28 BSA(Zabala). Have had them for almost 1 year sans problems. While the 28 is built on a 20 frame it is rather quick and with the cast off(right) I shoot it pretty well. Used it quite successfully on box birds before they got their winter plumage. Makes a great gun to carry. The 12 is not as graceful as a "sweet elsie"/Parker but not bad. Both have chrome blackened barrels(outside) and crome linings, wood to metal is "Good", color case is there-but thin, screw in chokes are fine(a la Beretta), ejectors are good-over my shoulder. As I've said before on this very subject, these are the guns Wetherby cancelled out after 400 guns 2-3 years ago. I do not think they are selling well now, probably due to the Hermanos Zabala "baggage" of the 1970's.(Those were BAD!!) Good luck, Dr. BILL ps Families of 10 are what kept me in "business"(Ob-Gyn) for 31 years!