I just looked at your picture of the muzzles pointing up and I enlarged it as much as it would go (two clicks) and as we discussed on the phone yesterday Allen, you can see the termination of the matting just before the end of the rib where the matting machine was lifted and the matting lines come to a somewhat rounded point. As I said in our conversation, on original uncut barrels there is almost always some indication of the matting ending - so, this one was trimmed back to the termination line across the rib, but not back into the matting.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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