None of this is meant to be mean, but a lot of things just came into perspective. Unfortunately you have just thrown the credibility of your previous opinions into pretty glaring light, and well outlined your grasp of the costs, time, and effort involved. It takes an H&H gunmaker (smith) up to a year to make a Royal, and they make about $90,000-$100,000 a year. Then there's maintaining the forges, tools, heavy machines, the factory, marketing, and so on. H&H quite to the contrary of turning 2,100% profits as you suggest has actually struggled with profitability in recent times. I'm afraid you aren't qualified to put numbers on build costs for hand fitting in modern times, I'd love some of these $10k at cost Holland & Holland Royals! Hell my machine made German double rifle was more than that new, and cost about that for the factory to make.
To see why, watch this video for a bit, you might learn something you didn't expect to. Building a Python today the way they were fit in the past by hand would be prohibitively expensive, folks of your line of thinking would immediately assume it's a rip off, not understanding the challenges. And no, Browning HPs don't equal Colt Royal Blue if it was you who suggested this but I enjoyed the laugh- owned them too.
