You have to see and and understand what the gunmaker did just because they could and wanted to and because thats how they insisted their guns be made. Thats the difference.
No, the bird getting killed and clay getting broken isnt going to know the difference, and if thats how you think about guns.....youve missed the entire point of this hobby fine guns . Thats the kind of argument someone who knows nothing about fine guns would use.
I know very little about really fine guns, and I certainly would never consider any of my hatcheting as "fine", but I do understand that concept, Dustin. When I was inletting the lock on the last m/l long rifle I built I went to great pains to leave every bit of wood possible. I left a very small area that is between the two leaves of the sear spring. It ended up looking a bit like the forward part of an arrow. When my mentor inspected the inlet he said he had never seen anybody leave that piece of wood in a lock inlet, and asked why I did. I replied "Because I could". He smiled and nodded in agreement.
Thanks for expressing it so well.
SRH
