This is a very good example of what 400 is trying to tell you, but it is not getting through! You like your Mustang, and the lines are pleasing to you. The older Mustangs are collector items, and what do you think lowering the stang down to the ground, adding fake fur seats, and putting hydrolics on it and turning it into a low rider with tiny little wheels and a polka dot paint job. Do you think it would still hold any value as a ventage MUSTANG, or would the collector value plummit to the bottom. And further would you still like the lines or the way it handled?

What 400 is saying is the re-do on the rifle has destroyed the monatary value of the rifle. yes if it shot well before, it may still shoot well after the work was done, will it still handle properly with the new stock shape, maybe but I doubt it. Just like your mustang after the mods I listed I don't think the stang would handle the same as it did before the so-called emprovements. It makes no difference whether you or I like the way the rifle was re-done, but you can't deny the monatary value has been trashed so that it is only more valuable to the guy who had it done. If he did it to up the value to resale, then he made a large mistake. The rifle was worth more before they did the so-called up grade, but if it had been done properly the value would surely have increased. This is like takeing a 1943 copper penny and chrome plating it to make it shinyer! Before it was worth about $3,000,000, chrome plated almost zero unless the chrome can be reversed without damageing the penny.

Nobody here is snobbing for Britt firearms, but facts are facts the rifle have lost all value as a Britt double rifle, and is worth no more now that a new Merkel, in fact I'd rather have the Merkel!