Nope. Never reviewed a Valier. Handled a few, but never shot one. I don't know how good they were, but it was a case of bad marketing. At the time they came out, Turkish guns at the cheap end of the sxs market were just starting to be accepted as decent guns in this country. All of a sudden, here's a Turkish sidelock that cost more than some Spanish sidelocks from makers that already had a solid reputation.
And I wasn't precisely correct when I agreed with Natty that RGS had a "special run" of Valiers done. What they did was buy up a bunch of Valiers and offer them to the chapters as banquet guns. Unlike the other guns we've discussed, I don't believe those guns were marked RGS.
