Keith,
Educated is far too generous a term for those conversations we had.
I just stumbled into the information before you did. I still have my Uggy, used it on day trips a few times this fall. No complaints. If I was to take a clean sheet of paper and design a nice Spanish boxlock for myself, it would end up looking a lot like a model 30, or a Falcon.
A guy could do a lot worse than an Uggy.

Best,
Ted