Obsessed,
I have my share of best guns, which cost a pile of money.
Objectively speaking I cannot see how a SXS can cost more than a Hasselblad camera on the grounds of mechanical refinement. The camera is just as refined, much more accuracy intensive than the locks of the finest sidelock.It costs 1/10 of a medium English gun.
To cite Bruce Owen, production manager of Purdeys, who wrote an article in Shooting Sportsman some years ago: do the financial benefits of adopting computerised machining tickle down to the retail buyer? That is a question for the marketing department, he wrote. The implications are sobering.
The "crude thing" I made has no pretensions to be anything other than a super simple side by side, an action stripped of any feature not absolutely necessary. You could have read as much in the text that accompanied the pics. And it can be converted to a self cocking action with intercepting safeties with no hand fitting and special tools, and no trip to the factory.
Where are your ceations for us to compare?
