The Inverness is a copy of the round body Rizzini... For the money, I'll take the Rizzini ANY DAY!
Adam
Not really, it's a copy of a bunch of Italian made O/U that are very good actions.. With that said, as much as I don't like CSMC, the Inverness is a sweet gun. I'll take an Inverness over the Rizzini any day.
And you would be wrong, on both points. The Inverness is an exact, though inferior, copy of the Rizzini Round Body. The Rizzini is a much nicer, better finished, and better engraved gun.
JR
John is exactly right. Rizzini builds with the standard "guild" action used by many Italian makers and that is what CSMC copied on the Inverness (the their model 21 o/u, too). To be more specific, they modeled the Inverness after the round body Rizzini, which is a far superior gun in my opinion. Also, keep in mind that right before they started making the Inverness, CSMC was the sole importer for Rizzini into the United States. They even imported a round body model named... You guessed it, the "Inverness"! When CSMC starting making their own Inverness, Rizzini opened up Rizzini USA in Utah to handle the importing. Obviously, CSMC now had conflict of interest with their own round body gun to sell.
