John, you're suggesting they'd tool up to produce sxs, which they haven't done for about 25 years, just to make a run of "niche" guns? Wouldn't seem to make much sense to me. If you're going to go to the trouble of getting back into the sxs business, you'd either have to shoot for more volume than that, or else charge an exorbitant price if you're only doing a small run.

Although I think they could make a go of it with a Miroku-made game gun, probably small bore, what Browning did when they originally came out with the BSS made a good bit more sense. Miroku was already making sxs, so it was simply a case of tweaking a gun they were already producing and putting the Browning name on it. Same story with the Citoris. Miroku was already making OU's, which again made things a lot easier. Not to mention cheaper.