I sympathize with your friend, George. I have to remind myself occasionally that this is the price we pay for loving/using these old warriors of the field. A new Beretta s/a would serve us faithfully without ever developing a crack, a weak toplever spring, of any other one of the myriad problems associated with our old guns. But, at what cost?
I tell myself that most of my hunting friends and buddies are happy as a pig in the sunshine with automatics or pumps. But then I realize I once was, too..........and, I can never go back. So it is.
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