A perfect example of why one should look past engraving when evaluating the quality of any gun.
Everything but the tubes themselves and the wood is a casting (and looks it), the edges of the barrels are rounded over and the polishing overall makes the gun look like a bar of used soap, typical Ruger.
Look at the barrel lump, that isn't a chopper-lump seam. What it is is the parting line from the mold in which the monoblock wax vestment was injection molded.
A fine gun it ain't. A polished turd is still a turd.
Ruger designed and built this gun to cash in on the SxS craze. In their adverts they called it a "fine double" and threw in some strategic allusions to English guns in order to get the attention of a certain market demographic. Any likeness to an actual quality English gun exists only in the mind of the ad copy writers.
24K will buy a couple of used guns that actually are fine quality, or one nice new one.
Accurate assessment, Dewey. I would call it a wildly engraved p.o.s.
JR
