Well, a crude form of rifleing machine was used to rifle the hand forged barrels (as well as something for boring) on German Jaegers as well as Pennsylvania & Kentucky rifles yet most people would consider these to be "hand made" rifles so the term "hand made" is difficult to define.
The point is that a lot of the work on "most" high quality English guns until recently was done with hand tools & there is lots of documentation around to support this so if you don't beleive what I'm writing, please do a little reading on the subject.
Yes, some machines were involved but it is amazing to me how much work was done with files, chisels, hand drills, scrapers & simple plate type thread cutting dies for screws up through the 1960 period.
To me, the end result is what matters & I don't care how much hand work is involved as long as the quality of worknanship is there as well as good design & materials.
A good entirely machine made guns is for sure better than a poor quality gun with lots of hand work but you can't deny the hand work & skills that went into the making of high quality English guns.
