Quote Originally Posted by Garvin View Post
Great score and must be satisfying to finally obtain a rifle you've long coveted. I put the Improved Britannia in the same desirable-for-collectors category as the Westley Richards pistol, an over-engineered design that with hindsight was always doomed to fail commercially once the sleeker, simpler models (the Webley pistols in the case of the WR HP) came along. Let's face it, this Britannia is no oil painting!
Agree the WR and the Improved Britannia would be a good pairing but I think the IB is a bit odder which makes it endearing. My chances for a IB are probably nil over here in the US.