My latest V. Bernadelli S. Uberto I imported by Charles Daly has only whetted my appetite for a true "best gun". But yesterday, shooting with Bladeswitcher, I became envious of his Webley and Scott boxlock English gun, which is a very nice gun, but even his Webley is not a "best gun" . . .
It's also not a Webley. It's a surprisingly high-end BSA. Typically, BSA made working man's guns but this one got a bit of extra attention. Not bad for $500 . . . (Despite the fact that the gun and I were not getting along yesterday.)
I stand corrected. It's a BSA, not a Webley.
And looking at it close, my V. Bernardelli does have side clips, and a Greener cross bolt, and there's an extension through the bottom of it's sculpted frame to further lock it up.
But alas, my gun has no ejectors, no sculpted fences, and no checkered butt, and the case colors have all but faded away. The wood is also much nicer, on the BSA.
A best gun would beat them both, put together, wouldn't it?
At least it's pretty to think it would.
