Gentlemen,
It's evident that many of you know nothing about Hunter Arms and L.C. Smith double guns, you shoot off you mouth attacking me personally and give no engineering analysis for your uneducated opinions.
Ryman Gun Dog
L.C. Smith Man
And yet I see you offering no engineering analysis that backs up your position. Quite funny. Stan and Ted seem to have you pegged.
I've not seen any of your handiwork nor that of any of the smiths you recommend so regularly. But I have followed Dewey Vicknair's work and worked with a number of other highly skilled smiths. Anyone who thinks Vicknair needs to educate himself further about L.C Smiths in order to see the light about what a fantastic gun the Elsie is, is clearly too biased to even have a conversation with.
I'll throw my Lindner Daly, my Lovena or my Manufrance Ideal up against your L C Smith anytime for being well engineered and I don't even have to think about which was more finely crafted.
I like a whole bunch of different guns but I'm not so silly as to imagine that a factory made American gun, which has well documented design flaws, is the be all and end all of SxS shotguns.