Well, SKB has jumped out of the sxs market. No more from them. Fausti (in Italy) is making the sxs for Weatherby and Marlin. But the country that's "jumped in" the most, recently, has been Turkey: CZ, DeHaan, S&W, Kimber, etc. They've got relatively cheap labor. Japan does not. But if the Japanese thought they could hit the $1500-3,000 niche and make money selling sxs, I expect they'd do it. Apparently they don't think they can.
I totally agree. With any company it has to be about the bottom line. The Japanese, USA, Brits, Italians, Spanish, etc just cannot compete with the labor cost and lack of social programs in Turkey. Turkey, like it or hate it is thee source of affordable SxS's today, just as Spain was and Italy before that.
