If a single shot is 50% of the gun a double is, then it was a far better value to the salt of the earth set-go to any old farm auction in rural MN, and you will see what I mean.
The Sterlingworth was nothing in the world more than a reaction to the JM Browning repeaters of various types that, in the end, put the kabosh on market hunting, and, the American double as we knew it. Fox showed up (along with others) at a five or six round gunfight with two rounds. They lost. Bigger is better, if you live here in the new world-ask a truck dealer.
The Fox, Parkers, NIDs, low grade and high, were classy then, but, the inhabitants of that era saw it not. Most couldn't wait to send Grandpa's double down the road, or, give to the kid, and hoist a spanking new A5. Loaded with baby magnums, but of course.
Thats the way it was. In a lot of people's minds, that's the way it still is, too.
Thorny, truly, it is but a tool. Idolatry doesn't compliment the harvest, or, the meal.
Best,
Ted
