I wasn't meaning to compare Searcy to H&H in form of product. Searcy's seem to look like clubs to me. They just have the look of an unweildy gun. (I won't count the one I've actually held, because I can not see any makers product chambered in .700 NE being nimble or graceful.) I was comparing the customer support. H&H strikes me (and I may be entirely wrong in this regard, if at which is the case would be a great relief to me) as a company that would act like they are doing you a favor, and not the opposite. All that I seem to hear and read about Searcy is that they are nice people to deal with in ordering, building, and servicing the product.

At present to say I will buy new or used would be an act of folly with out the aid of a cyrstal ball that allows visions of future double gun prices and market trends. I know I will be spending in the neighborhood of probably $50,000. To say that by the time I have the funds saved up that the guns I like (Pre-War) are still at that level would be nothing more than guesswork at best. If they shoot though the roof in price and land into the quarter million dollar range, I may be forced to buy current production models offered now, or commission a new gun built.