"If so, you must have a horse-shoe up your tail. Your purchase of the Westley Richards .375 with the 16" barrels was a spot of luck, when the rest of us seemed to have missed it, and now this nicely priced (as it turned out) toy."

No, I reckon application and dogged pursuit.

I have been looking for a specific product in a specific size sine January to replace one's that have worn out over the last 5 years. Be buggered if I could find any at a reasonable price. In the interim, in Jan I purchased an alternative to tied the person over.

I just kept looking every week or two on the net, especially world wide and last week I found a pair, size 14, thought they would do so purchased them for mate and had them sent off.

Over the moon is an understatement ! So much so, I got on the case again and managed to track down a few more pairs at a cheaper price so bought those (discontinued product so it was a case of buy now or lose them).

Relate that to Doubles, I think you need to keep abreast of what turns up on NE, AR, GunsInternational, GunsAmerica, GunBroker every week if you are to find these little gems.

And obviously buckstix does and good luck to him.