Originally Posted By: treblig1958
I just look at the poorly finished guts on my Ithaca, my buddy's Fox, another friend's Lefever 'automatic hammerless' and compare that image to some of the pics of high grade English, French, Italian and German made guns that people share on this board and just shake my head.

Well made roughed out tools? Definitely

Classics? Not so much.

They work, they shoot. That's good enough for me, I guess.


While I have never taken parts off double other than simple breakdowns into three pieces the NID I examined was pretty well finished even in places not seen when the gun is fully assembled. I do like poor finish on Spanish, Belgian,..... clunkers because I can quickly tell quality from junk.