This has been an interesting thread. There’s no free lunch in this life and the truth of the matter is that a double rifle from a reputable manufacturer is an outrageously expensive piece of kit at the best of times. Human nature always wishes to look for value and financial shortcuts proportional to the price of entry to a quality product. There ain’t no free lunch. No amount of money will turn a Dodge Omni into a Ferrari no matter how great the desire..... I never understood the passion to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, when one will always be holding a sow’s ear no matter how much lipstick is applied to the pig.