Nudge, You could have made your point without being snarky. Perhaps that's just your normal tone. Guys like Damascus share a lot more with you than you're response acknowledges.
I think damascus is a good guy, and I suspect he's been around long enough to have seen many changes. I don't know, but I think he can pass along what happens to a tradition when it is regulated and priced out of reach. Many of the most desireable British best guns and rifles are cased with reloading tools, which would imply these arms were intended to be subjected to some degree or another of human error.
What if, on a whim, low pressure factory loads in England are outlawed or regulated out of existence? Wouldn't it be a good thing if those folks had the options and desires to keep the classic guns shooting, just as you seem to do with some of the classic rifles that you've played with? Maybe, we can learn from our friends what not to do to our different but equally important history and culture?
