I doubt that the actual amount of steel they used would warrant such an operation.

In their hayday Purdey was finishing 300-400 a year, average 5 lbs of steel on a finished gun . Suppose they left 2/3 of the amount of the forgings on the shop floor, that would be about 6000 lbs a year, hardly worth a blast furnace and hammers.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
- Errol Flynn