If it is a concern a new $10000 rifle will lose half of it's value when you buy it. A used English gun will be worth more than you pay for it. (Assuming you didn't get carried away and buy it from H&H. )
-------------------- Lovu Zdar
Mick
A Man of Pleasure, Enterprise, Wit and Spirit Rare Books, Big Game Hunting, English Rifles, Fishing, Explosives, Chauvinism, Insensitivity, Public Drunkenness and Sloth, Champion of Lost and Unpopular Causes.