Just for the record: I, too, appreciate the trim and handy rifles and guns turned out by the British trade prior to WWII. A Westley Richards Mauser provided the pattern that I have used time and again to build rifles of all types. Xausa can attest to some of these efforts. But I also appreciate many, but not all, of the guns turned out by the better gunsmiths in the USA, even up to the present time.