The gun writer Mike Venturino (spelling?) has written that one of the companies that import Italian replicas of the Colt single action sent him one to test, with no rifling in the barrel, Said he had to send it back for another one. (He didn't hame the company.)
He was making a comment about how people who write for the gun rags don't necessarily get special, hand selected samples to test like you might think.
He was making a comment about how people who write for the gun rags don't necessarily get special, hand selected samples to test like you might think.