Peter

I love your caveat LOL, very good.

All these things have a place - the other thing is you probably learn't a fair bit from it.

I have 2 Merkels, one 470 and one scoped 375H&H that like you, I call my THRASH guns - even though I have taken my English guns into some horrible places, I decided I needed a couple of guns that I couldn't care if they got thrashed by accident.