Sorry RHD,
I'll sign off here...and I understand your perspective completely. Please try to understand mine a little, there's just no way a gun produced here on Seneca St. could have made it's way backwards in time to Austria where young Rudolph could have used it as a canvas in proving himself as a journeyman. Wrong or right in the assessment of details that spew out of this beginner, his whole take on things is so preposterous that, perhaps I don't give him enough credit for the things he is correct about. Labeling one of America's highest art shotguns as a European double just doesn't feel like splitting hairs...it smells like oats once through the horse.