I heard another 'Whopper" about Spanish guns at a show this weekend. I had a few Mid-Grade, light game gun sidelocks and boxlocks for sale. According to one guy, the Spanish usually didn't bother to clean out the filings after they engraved their guns, resulting in excessive wear of the internal parts. What a Moron. Add this to the "Soft Steel" myth, as well as the rumor that one of the two major barrel makers made inferior barrels...

I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.