I guess we've all got different tastes which is just as well otherwise we'd all be trying to marry the same woman. I prefer the aesthetics (English spelling) of the Talleys and find the Smithsons a little too blocky or chunky in appearance, to the extent that I had my Harre 49 action slotted for Talleys. I am no expert in these matters but arent the double square bridges there to enable gunmakers to custom fit any ring to such "integral base blocks" that maybe desired? Given that they are a German thing? and knowing the German bent for logic in their gunmaking, it must be so.