You have to be kidding me? Everyone and his mother is building that slop.
Very true, but it's what's selling.
JR
IMHO, It's fashion. I have no idea what's the hot thing that comes next but the current demand for black gun styles is simply the fashion of our times.
I also think that classic doubles, pumps and bolt actions will always represent some corner of the market and that too will change as the "fashion" for classic styles ebbs and floes.
If Tony and Lou think it's time to get out of making doubles, I sure wouldn't argue with them. And having had a front row seat for 30 years watching the US shoe manufacturing industry move elsewhere, I too would be watching the Turkish development with careful interest, were I them.
I don't think the earlier years of Spanish production is all that instructive for what may come. Industry, and this includes gunmaking, has become much more sophisticated about moving to lower production cost regions and becoming adept at quality production, although it's typically 10- 15 years for the native industry to get the quality up to world class standards. There is always a learning curve. Turkey seems well on it's way.
