Recoil Rob, you are absolutely incorrect. If you think a $50,000 Purdey or Boss is being sold based on performance, you are smoking something the rest of us are not allowed to smoke. And Larry is out of touch with reality when he mentions "honing" as the problem. Honing can be measured. Promiscuous striking is the problem and Purdey, Boss, and Holland are as guilty as anyone. Invest in a good UK auction catalog and see what I mean. I have long suspected that many UK gunsmiths were Pennsylvania transplants.