Best is an interesting idea, and I don't think it's just a hollow marketing scheme.
Like with car companies, different gunmakers had different ideas of what it meant.
KIA's best car isn't as nice as Bentley's, just as the top-of-the-line gun from A.H. Fox isn't on par with a Boss.
Different customers + different price points = much different products.
The idea of Best also evolved as gunmaker's competed with one another and refined their products.
A best-quality Boss from the Patstone era can't compare with one from the later, Robertson era.
All this being said, I think there's something to be said for making any style gun (boxlock, sidelock, etc) in the best way possible.
But defining this "best way" is tricky. What do you include? What do you exclude? What matters and what doesn't?
I've tried to quantify this and I'm always finding exceptions.
OWD
Last edited by obsessed-with-doubles; 01/11/12 10:44 AM.
