There is a big difference between the cosmetic dressing that Turnbull is famous for and performance enhancement that you see on competition firearms and I'm sorry you don't see that, I guess that's your fault. You're trying to compare an auction for a dressed up firearm with performance enhancements and it just doesn't work that way. You talk about the guys working on the Perazzis being normal guys but you ignore the fact that what they're working on is different. My cousin specializes in fixing and tuning European autos and has for over 30 years. You can put him (the same mechanic) on a Porsche 911 and Toyota Prius and they just won't perform the same way.

There is an element of shooting something because they get it for free but there's also a very real difference in performance in some of these systems. I'll bet you CAN take an off-the-rack Mossberg and get it to shoot like a Perazzi -- you may or may not have $3000 invested in it by the time you do but it's certainly possible to make them perform similarly.