A very personal perspective ..
You know, the RBL has generated about as much verbiage as anything I have ever seen for a current shotgun, at least here and one other place anyway. I've friends who also have purchased the 'Cordoba' 20's except in some kinda camo pattern. They worked just fine, outside Cordoba. I do not know of their being used much anywhere else tho there is no reason they shouldn't. I'm taking my RBL to Uruguay in July. I got the 'call' from Carol last summer the day before I was departing and there was insufficient time to receive it and do the customs thing. Not the case this year. Most happy to hear that you got your gun, Doug. I'd bet you will enjoy shooting it. Mine is still a bit tight with barely over a couple of flats of shells through it, to date. I do not think it fair to judge guns meant to be field dynamic by shooting clay targets with them premounted. That's just a personal thing, but one that I would hold as valid nonetheless. I don't know that it makes a whit's worth of dif, but I really enjoy shooting the one I recieved. I kinda screwed the case up the very first time out for dove last Sept., it rubbed against a dog box and an old dovetailed wooden cartridge case for a couple of hundred miles or so and it 'dented' or marked the nylon on the underside of the case! OH MY! [;-)] It didn't rub through or anything like that, but it was certainly no longer a virgin after that either and I'm sure it would/will detract from the present or future resale value. So what!? The gun was not remotely damaged and it is a real pleasure in the field, and that is really all that matters, to me. I intend to put it to good use in a hot corner this summer [actually winter south of the equator] and further burnish its moving parts. FWIW, I am also considering doing a dif trip with only a couple of model 31 Remingtons, one with a nice dial a choke fitted and the other a factory Full, both 20's. Why not? What I'm trying to convey here is that these things [shotguns], aside from collecting, are about using and having fun. That should place the dogs, the friends, the locus and the misadventure at least as high as the gun. Again, that's a personal thing, mine, so no need to flame me. I simply appreciate the opportunities I'm afforded from more than only one perspective. What an RBL ever did to become the star object of criticism just escapes me when a refund would/will be immediately forthcoming, if requested. I've done some fair amount of gun 'bidness' thru the years & dealt with a broad sample of the players, but I don't know of a single MFG aside from Galazan that would happily give you your money back. That's MONEY, not a credit or some kind of ruse, simply the money you paid. What's more to say?
To save any possible confusion this is a perspective, mine, and on several dif things. It is not a defense, of anything.
