My original decent quality American gun is a Sterlingworth Fox that was made in 1923 and I have owned if for 40 years. This was the only shotgun I owned for many of those years so it was used for everything from quail and duck hunting and I shot my first deer with it as well. This gun had digested great quantities of high base express duck loads before we knew any better. I shot hundreds of rounds of trap and skeet with it as well.
It has never required repair of any sort in all those years and the barrels internally are as nice as the day I got it.
How many owners of English guns can make the statements I just made about their "superior" examples?
Jim

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