Dickson's were kind of my holy grail for awhile, then I gave up looking because it seemed I could never find one at what I felt was a decent price. A few years ago I was able to trade into a damascus barreled gun in very good shape and that stirred the pot and I had to have another one and went overboard buying one from Graham. One warning, check carefully on exchange rate. The rate I was charged turned out higher because according to Graham the amount I wired was less than a certain break point. Funny thing both my damascus barreled gun and the steel barreled gun I bought from Graham were made in 1905.
Re shooting them a lot, if you consider these are light dynamic guns most people use relatively light loads, so the strain is not the same as shooting 10,000 trap loads.
JP Daeschler the current GM of Dicksons knows most guns, as Paul pointed out they have only made about 1800 RA, so he has seen many of them. He will help with info if he has it.
