you're right about the extras for Chapuis... from Moustached side clips to about any grade of engraving. they do offer a lot of options. It just seems that no one in the US (the importers) bring them in.

Those extras add up quickly, and it appears that once you get into those options (and their prices) the doors to other guns open up and the chapuis begins to look less atratcive as compared to it's more expensive counterparts.

For my money, the Chapuis in the low, to middle grades represents a great buy in a "shooting" double rifle. That's really thier Sweet Spot. Get into the higher grades and you can probably spend the same money on some better guns.

PS - I've owned 3 of them.