Hi!

Why not doing lower grade guns in spain/italy and build the best guns at home. That way you could sell more "cheaper" guns that people afford and this would payoff untill the costumers with the cash order a best gun. The name wouldnt be hurt if the grades are lower and if the quality and price in the lower grades are as good as the merkel/chapius or better, more than one would uppgrade. Bequrse the name is still Rigby not the name of a cheap euro.

And why not buy up as many m.98 as possible send them off to good smiths and turn them into fine takedown rifles that apparently are easy to sell in the states.
And offcourse the assembly and last fitting, woodwork and so on would be made in the UK.

Well, this was done before from UK gun manufactors and they arent around. But perhaps the market for a quality rifle with a name that makes a man think of Africa 100 years ago. are greater now than some 50-100years ago.