Now I may in the minority, but quite frankly I never really thought the engraving would be as nice as in the advertised RBL picture, but by the same token, I don’t expect it to look like a stamped job on some sub $2K O/U.
As opposed to a $2.5K SxS? Compare oranges to oranges.
The base price for the RBL was $2500 if paid up front and I believe $2800 if you didn't. Any more money spent was put into options, of which the engraving was not one. Take away the cost of the case and accessories and there's not really much of a difference, if any, in cost between the two.
The only pictures of production guns I've seen have looked fine. I've handled some prototypes and they also looked fine. Can someone post pictures of a gun with bad engraving or bad checkering?
