Congratulations, you have good taste.

No gun can compare handling wise with a quality English single. I am really curious to see how you will do with it at driven shooting and how the experience will compare with using a double.

I have handled a fair number of these quality singles and they puzzle me. Obviously they're too good for the role of normal (ie cheap) single shots. They seem to have been well looked after, that and the 2 1/2 chamber do not indicate wild fowling. Makes me wonder about who ordered and how they used these guns.