Ignorance is correctable. As long as someone cares enough to teach the difference. If they are interesed, they will find out, and seeing your gun may just have provided enough of a spark to start the journey.
Did you consider, that, maybe, just maybe, there is indeed a Holland & Holland Royal behind the kids door? Stranger thing have happened.
When I was 17, nothing in the world could compare to my Remington model 17.
Things have changed, for sure, in the breadth of my knowledge, if not my success at the actual bringing home of game.
Others helped me along.
Best,
Ted
