I haven't reached the stage in life were I can buy something just look at. Like others have said, it must work like it was designed to. The 100+ year old American SxS is becoming more everyday like the old American flintlock longrifles that are looked upon now as folkart. Not so much as an object of art, but a representation of an age when America was coming into its own as an industrial power, and serve to me as a link to that past, just as the Longrifle serves as a link to our early frontier. Good thread.