I guess I agree with cayugadfor the most part, its just that if you have own a shop and worked on all kinds of guns for a lot of years the opinion you form is base on a certain amount of facts.
While some of the older across the ocean brands were awful at one time I disagree about the barrels there were a few odd incidents because of poor QC but over all the barrels are the best part of there guns, and most of them are quite accurate; the part my experience takes exception to is some of there breach plugs, the incidence of burn out and cracking is high enough to make me leery.
Then there is the fact that the same people who buy foreign cars and foreign guns wonder why all the jobs went overseas.
There is nothing wrong with most of the guns we are talking about, I just happened to like TC and Knight best the Savages are a fine quality gun but I prefer not to have bolt action or smokeless muzzle loaders and when it comes down to digging out the bill fold that personal preference and opinion are what count. Lee