Merry X-Mas to you too!

The process has been quite an education for me too!
I've learned quite a few things about the guns and NOT about the guns too.
The roots of my interest had always been to see the early 'top shelf' exercise of fine-art technology from the industrial revolution.

Watches and currency production never really turned my screws, but fine rifles always did - furthermore, I see the hand-build rifles of the aristocracy to be the top of the fine art technology food chain.
After all, they're the highest expression of the metalworking craft - the only objects which protected the keep of everything below them!

To ice the cake, I get to exercise my craft while in the study of 19th century history and technology - then get out in the field with the bounty of my work and hunt with it!!

Cheers
Tinker