Browning is smart enough to know that tool-up and production costs would not be cost effective to sell a few dozen BSS's in all the various and multiple configurations Larry mentions. Everybody that wants one should be required to do a business plan on producing one, then do a market study on how many people would actually buy one.
JR
John, I don't know how many BSS Browning sold last time around. If memory serves, I believe Ithaca sold something on the order of 60,000 SKB side by sides over the approximately 10 years those two firms worked together. That's decent volume, and I don't think the sxs market is any smaller now than it was in the 60's and 70's. Tony Galazan doesn't seem to have any trouble selling RBL's for prices that probably average about that of an AyA 4/53, if you don't add too many options. If Miroku could make the BSS and sell it at a profit for somewhere in the $3K neighborhood, I don't think the options I mentioned are unreasonable. ST/DT is pretty easy, as are straight vs PG stock. And of course the good old USA is not the only potential market. Miroku has always done pretty well in Europe too. The difference between the previous BSS era and now is that Spanish boxlocks are significantly more expensive. An Uggie Grade III from Lion Country--basic boxlock with ejectors--runs $24-2700, depending on gauge. And the AyA's are another $1K, and both are likely to see increases fairly soon. Might be the right time for a new sxs from Japan. A lot of American sxs fans already know how good the old ones were. Unlike the Turks, they wouldn't have to convince us that they can build good guns.
