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Again you fit right in with them and know little about L.C. Smith guns, in fact all the pre 1913 L.C. Smith guns were hand made, fit an finished, even the later guns manufactured on a line principle had 80% of the gun hand made, it's the only way a Brown Rotary Bolt, for each individual gun, can be made. All the Sidelock internal pieces were also made individual for each gun, the barrels were all individually fit and finished to each individual gun, swapping the barrels from on gun to another is a job for a Master Gun Maker, it must be completed by hand fit and finish.

You are high on drugs to actually believe that any of the euro guns you have listed will not eventually shoot loose, most originally came with documents telling the owner, the gun must be tuned up after each seasonal usage. Even the Boss and Purdy guns fail the longevity test. I have heard all the BS excuses before, in reality if the L.C. Smith had been produced in London, the euro/London gun makers would still be bragging about it even today, as the greatest gun engineering ever made.

Ryman Gun Dog
L.C. Smith Man