Every thought about how silly some of us view the myriad of guns made to be "collectible" instead of shot and how many people fall for the trap? If you make a new gun and add a little extra half axx moderate machine engraving, then add a serial number to say it is one of five hundred or even fifty is it really collectible? To me this is like all those Franklin Mint coins or plates which are just a fake collectible item that will never gain in value. Or the Ruger Red Label with a little simple engraving claiming to be one of fifty special edition guns. Come on they are still a Red Label at heart.
Been looking for a Winchester 42 .410 for early dove season and preserve birds. Found one that suits my needs. It is a "fake collectible" in my book that has seen very light use. Glad it has been shot because it is neither a rare Winchester 42 or a unfired, nib gun. It is one of the 42's that Winchester had made for them in Japan. But I was thinking that since it is not a real collectible I'd would shoot it anyways than let it sit in my gun room gathering dust for the next sucker looking for a wannabe collectible gun. Then you have the Browning labeled Japanese made copies of the Winchester model 12 and 42 in the Citori grade VI which Winchester never made with fake looking Gold inlays. That's a double or triple fake collectible in my book. A Japanese copy of a American gun with stuff added to it which never came on the original to start with. Like a Chinese made, 56 Chevy repro with a turbo charged 4 cylinder motor and neon light under the frame. Yum what a collectible car that would be.
They make better: cars, motorcycles, electronics, mass-produced knives,.....and not surprisingly better mass produced guns. Buy Japanese guns and use with confidence they don't break or wear out easily. If members of each race used their brains to full potential I suspect Asians would come on top.
Watch Japanese tv, i watch nhk news channel sometimes. On it there is a programme called "supreme skills", it gives people with various trades challenges. One episode showed turners being challenged to drill a .5mm hole in a pencil lead. Another, a group of elderly toolmakers were tasked with making a high efficiency pendulum.
My point is they were ordinary working skilled people, being celebrated on national television. On western media, people with manual skills are not celebrated, the thing to be is a vulture fund investor, or banker, making millions, screwing peoples lives up, living in hugely expensive houses, driving bentleys or ferraris.
P.S. If you enter nhk supreme skills into youtube, most of the episodes are on there.
