The 2nd. part of this rotten fish story is what will the current owner of this bogus Navy do with the gun if he/she has no recourse with the previous seller...and it sounds like there is no recourse, since two folks got taken in a row...
Does this person :1) bite the bullet and keep the gun as a lessons learned piece, 2) discount the gun and sell it as a facsimilie Navy, or 3) does this person pass off the piece to the next unsuspecting buyer and try to recoup their money...???
Even in scenarios # 1 and # 2 above, which are the honorable things to do; there is no guarantee when this piece is sold the next time it is not represented, again, as an honest Navy...
What a quandry...
If that were my choice, I think I would engrave the "bogus" status of the piece on the grip strap underneath the wooden grip panels (maybe with the suspected maker's name...
), enjoy my gun as an over-priced shooter, and eventually sell it again to another shooter...with all info. disclosed...of course...waiting long enough for shooter prices to rise to my original buy level...(wishful thinking...).
Regards,
Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />