Stockranger, that was an excellent observation on your part when you said that it looks like the 1950's in there in the factory photos of the Huglu operation. I know that you are fairly new to the shotgun industry and from your many posts and jabs on here as well as the Gun Opinion, ect. forums about Huglu shotguns that you really hate them and I just wanted to point out that you are 100% right on the money there. It also looks just like the "2010's in there" if you are looking at a Custom Gun Maker's production facility that makes Hand Made Guns in Scotland, England or the Basque Region of Spain, ect. costing up 10's of thousands of dollars. You didn't see alot of CNC machines and stock duplicating machines or Laser checkering machines or even machines that produce machined engraving, no!! What you saw was a gun making facility that painstakingly handmakes every gun, even the production guns and on the the production (price point guns) they have to cut corners every where that they can in order to make any money at all on them, these guns too are "Hand Made"!! Much like say Ugartechea, they are still building "Old School Hand Made Guns" but offering them at very affordable prices by cutting costs every where that they can and what the customer gets with their grade I guns is an absolutely bare bones hand made gun, but they are fantastic guns. Zabala, on the other hand, another Spanish gun maker actually now has more modern CNC and Lazer type technology on board and has been going after the price point market more like the way of say Ruger for example produces guns except with far better QC and higher acceptable standards. So they can turn out guns made of parts with very little hand fitting required (see the profits soar) but like Ruger, the supposed CNC'd interchangeable parts don't always fit together so good. But don't get me wrong Zabala still puts out amazingly high quality price point guns because that's part of their culture. Ruger on the other hand produces some super fine firearms and some total junk because of modern manufacturing process and what I call a lack of QC or low expectations in their acceptable tolerance levels. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Ruger Handgun Fan, they are are in a league of their own, especially with their handguns and with other firearms but you better look them over real good because they are fully capable of producing Top and bottom of the barrel quality and from my experience their warranty and customer service dept. sucks at Gale Force.
So anyway Stockranger, so that you might further your education and understanding of the Huglu guns I think that you should seek out one of Huglu's Custom SGr guns and really look it over and then you may begin to appreciate what a terrific value all the Huglu made guns really are. My really high grade SGr custom 0017 huglu gun (210BE, ejector gun)is a literal work of art, every inch of it is meticulously hand fiited to near perfection and man does it shoot good. I assure you that Huglu is fully cabable of producing magnificent high quality guns.
Strat