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most of what you suggest are allready possible, but when the companys can sell all there product capacity, as the traditionel dbl rifles at an elevated cost then why change.

i like progress as much as the next guy, but really dont want to see the changes come to this buisness, as it has done to the rest of the trade, my take on semi-autos and most boltguns are clear to all, mass fabricated chuncks of plastic and steel, proberly good tools but i will never own one again. the only gun not made for warfare is the double rifle, and therefore it has been out of the massproduction circus, it still is an old artform, where real people have to do the work by hand. if it was possible to produce a nice dbl. rifle by machine i predict that the artform will die out withinn a few generations.

i think if you really wanted to see a double rifle in camo plastic and stainless steel, it could be done but you would have to pay extra for it


best of new year to you

peter

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Peter:

I'm basically with you, tho I might be a bit more Pro-Choice when it comes to other designs.

I agree 100% about the "tool" aspect of other plastic-fantastic designs. They are, but...they are the product of modern manufacturing, which is exactly what traditional doubles WERE when they were first thought up.

When I was growing up, if a guy strolled on to a rifle range with an AR15, he might very well have been asked to leave. Now...

Scopes were once looked down on. Now...

Plastic stocked bolt rifles were thought to be hideous {...still are... } and never to be owned by true aficionados. Now...

And pistols; I clearly remember the demand for milled steel and walnut grips and REVOLVERS... Now...

My post wasn't a "wish list" but rather an attempt to answer the original question. I think you and I might be on the same page as far as what is appealing to our generation, but what about the next? I don't know, but when Cost + Legislation + Profit Margin + Will to Survive are added up, the answer might...might...be very non-traditional indeed... {???}

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