Wild Skies,

Several variables operate regarding restocking prices: i.e. the markets depth, the agregate utility curve of the gun owners, the local hour price of qualified artisans, the degree of transparency in a given market, the shipping restrictions on shotguns. So, in the US you have a big market, well informed gun owners of top notch shotguns but less well informed of more numerous owners of medium quality guns, high prices per hour of artisan work, ready available info on high quality repair, several restrictions to ship guns overseas. So, in summary there is a mid to lower section of the repair & restocking market that is not well attended. Maybe this section of the market should consider going abroad to satisfy their needs. Certainly those artisan that charge different prices are not necessarily in the same market, nor they have to feel unhappy because the earn 1/4 or 1/2 of somebody else. Another matter is the degree of contamination of this thread with opinions that do not answer the original question nor they help to solve problems of gun owners that have different utility curves than top notch gun users.

Regards,

EJSXS