No your point is quite obvious. You can't figure something out but have nevertheless reached certain dimissive conclusions.
When given a place where you might find that knowledge you brush it aside.
Does that really equate to the added $50,000? If those physical differences seem perfectly acceptable at that price rate, chances are you are rich man. That may be the only difference in the way we think about this.
Again you are jumping to ill-informed conclusions. I don't know if I'm rich compared to you and you don't know either.
What I do know however is that is little point having a discussion such as this with someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oh, give it a break PJR. I asked questions, and the best you can do is say "go read a book". Gee, you sound like a really intelligent internet educator.
For your information, I have researched countless websites on African safari rifles, and not once have I been able to reach any solid conclusions covering the labor involved or details describing where their true value is derived. No big deal, so I simply asked here.
You blame me for not reaching the same conclusions as you. The funny thing is, there is obvious hypocritical thinking on your part. You claim me as being "close-minded", when you yourself aren't open-minded enough to realize how people like me may arrive at such conclusions. Instead of battering the curiosity in my mind, like it's wrong or something, maybe you could take the kind approach and offer a little of your own intellect. Or not, it's your decision what kind of a poster you would like to come off as. You make that intention obvious enough.
And maybe your book does contain that info, but when we have people here willing to share it for free, unlike yourself, where is the sense in more unneeded spending to find a simple answer?
You don't need to try and "top" that with some more crap either, PJR. Just let it be and enough is enough. Take the high road, if you will. I'm done here.
There are people in here who have actually said something of merit. To those people, I thank, because they have helped me to step back a few steps and view the larger picture. It makes more sense to me now.
H&R building a rifle for 1000 hours, at $70/hour sounds a lot more reasonable to me. I had never expected a rifle build to really involve that many hours of labor.
Thanks guys...I won't trash this thread anymore than I have. Sorry I butted in with all of this crap you surely don't want to see.