Grizzly,

Like anyone they have their plusses and minusses. If you are having them do work on a gun for you they can be torturously slow. They do seem to respond to pestering but its a pain. I prefer to deal with Paul Chapman, in the NJ store. He is in charge of their gunsmithing and thus a more practical guy.

PM me if you want more.

I agree with 500 Grains assesment of the price. You can get a new very nice sidelock rifle from a variety of good makers for that kind of money or a nice, very good condition English sidelock as well. I wonder if this price wasn't just put on the rifle as a "we don't know yet, but this would definitely cover it" number. I've seen this once or twice from some of the big retailers.

JPK