You forget that the improvement of the double rifle CONTINUES. Butch is using better materials than the old Brits had. They are simplly TOO HEAVY. Thay are about two pounds heavier than they should be. Theirs cannot shoot monolthic solids. The Brit gunmakers are no longer gunmakers but clothiers. The big names are owned by fashion companies. Their shotguns are very nice but I am personally not interested in a $50,000 shotgun or a $100,000 double rifle than cannot shoot modern bullets and is two pounds heavier than it should be. I'll take a Searcy over anything out there.