One aspect of REAL upland guns that some times goes over head of owner is the gun should actually have value commensurate with being taken out in the uplands, briars, thickets, rain snow etc. Particularly guns intended for partridge hunting. Guy wants to get a custom double gun made up, he gets fancy engraving by some master, uses spectacular grained wood, worries for nights over theory like having another 3/1000 inch of choke in left barrel, gets ridiculously long target type length of pull, etc etc etc. Then he usually ends up with high cost vanity gun that lives in safe and comes out for for pictures or to show off to friends , or may be for skeet or while walking very carefully on open roads in blue bird weather. To further confuse upland hunters, some magazine does more pictures and artical on the ultimate upland gun. Readers who are mostly clue less get lost in the engraving and wood, and offer hearty agreement. Big time joke. Give me a well worn honest upland gun that's really been in the coverts. Every thing here is IMHO.
