Even with the CNC machinery today, some hand finishing is still required. But rather than using the term "hand made" one should be using the term "hand fitted" or "hand finished". This refers to the era when everything wasn't done by computer. Stamping out parts on the Winchesters and Brownings during the during the 60s are a good example. The period when more parts were made and fit by hand instead of the burnt on checkering that is done today instead of hand checkering and hand engraving. Who wants to pick their engraving from a catalog that is going to be exactly done on thousands of other S&Ws? This is why so many new guns today need to be stoned to get a better trigger. Most of the time you can hear and feel the sound of an older gun tossing out the empties or the sound of the firing pins. Much like the difference of a nice leather basketball as opposed to the sound of a cheap beach ball sound of a cheaper one. It's the difference of closing your eyes and putting an $8,000.00 Ljutic trap gun to your shoulder as compared to a $1500.00 Browning. You can hear and feel the difference. Or some can.
