Interesting thread and responses.

When I was a kid in the early 60's I remember the old duffers who comprised the spit & whittle club at the local Otasco/gun shop complaining loud and long that all the new guns being built by Colt, S&W, Remington etc. were all junk compared to the way "they used to build em" and they for sure wouldn't last a lifetime like the ones built during their younger days. Turns out they were wrong about that.

I'll bet they would be surprised at the prices some collectors are paying for the guns from that time frame now.