that's why I've moved on to vintage and obscure sporting rifles and guns. you can get some absurdly high quality stuff for pennies on the dollar because its "out of fashion" literal hand made rifles/shotguns for way way less than what they were when new accounting for inflation.
there is so much variation in them too. from obscure German and British provincial shops mostly with names like Miller & Val. Griess, Eduard & Franz Kettner, W. Collath, Lancaster, Charles Boswell, Mortimer, Darne, the list goes on.
I'd like to pick up a good condition Darne. so cool. so weird. the standard grades go for about 1,000 usually. they are not common but they are not that rare either.
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