What do we do if we love caviar, but have bologna budgets? I'm really happy with what I do own, but can't help falling hopelessly in love with those gorgeous high end Ballards, like the 4 1/2 Mid Range, 7-A-1 Long Range, Rigby, etc.!
Brent, I too searched for a reasonably priced (in my budget) Sharps cartridge gun. Finally decided to settle on an affordable percussion Sharps, and then realised even a nice percussion was overpriced, so went on to looking for other things. But I'm still gonna find a decent real Sharps one of these days!
I went through the same thing on a few other gun "needs", and eventually some of them came around!