The Turkish gun industry is an interesting case study. Lots to debate. They have some of the best walnut for gunstocks in the world and a motivated low cost work force that can produce guns at lower price point using some of the latest gun making technology and machinery.
Handled a few S&W and they are nice guns and I think they are the base for Dickinson guns. However buying a S&W one of them would be like buying a Ruger Gold Label SxS. If you have issues with the gun just try and call S&W or Ruger. You will get a polite AMF-YOYO statement. BTW AMFYOYO stands for "Adios Mutha ------ Your On Your Own"
Several years ago an American startup of Hatfield had a high quality boxlock sxs made at Huglu where Dehaan, CZ, Kimber and some others had guns made that came from same factory. It was about a $2k gun. Remember seeing a video test of gun on their website showing gun broken down before, during and after them shooting that gun some 20,000 times straight in a 24 hour period. Gun would get so hot after about every few hundred rounds when swapping shooters they would drop gun in a barrel of water to cool it off. Then keep on shooting. After all that they then tore down gun and compared everything and looked closely at all the components including stock, fore-end, latches, actions, firing pins, safety, and most importantly the chrome lined barrels and found little noticeable wear. They put it back together and then did the same thing again firing almost 40k rounds in two days with no reported issues. I thought it pretty gutsy demonstration and thought about getting one until company went belly up, but it did give me confidence in Dehaan and CZ guns. I know Kimber had some issues at first with their venture but understood they got it worked out with guns but they just never took off.
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