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10-27-2016, 09:29 AM | #3 | |||||||
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10-27-2016, 10:05 AM | #4 | ||||||
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How well I remember her shouting those words!
As I heard it, Jack had a client for it well before the auction but Jack had it in his possession for a while afterward. .
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10-27-2016, 10:11 AM | #5 | ||||||
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No, Jack didn't have a client before the auction, it was after the Forbes article about the sale of the gun at auction when he was contacted and sold the gun. Damn it I was going to shoot that gun a week later......
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10-27-2016, 10:15 AM | #6 | ||||||
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He was one of a kind.
Imagine the level of "savvy" to be able to bid that amount, not knowing how high it might have gone without his opening bid?
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10-27-2016, 01:17 PM | #7 | ||||||
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That's not savvy- that's ballsy. And foxy- probably - scaring away the other bidders.
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10-27-2016, 02:51 PM | #8 | ||||||
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He was planning on shutting everyone down with that opening bid, that's why he wanted the girl (who was his phone bidder) to practice in front of a mirror to get the effect right and hopefully shut down everyone else (which is what happened)
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10-27-2016, 02:59 PM | #9 | ||||||
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So, the question remains - has the gun been restocked (again) or has the original been made right again? Anybody know?
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10-27-2016, 03:56 PM | #10 | ||||||
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Somewhere I saw a picture of the gun and a stock with a metal plate over the wrist and assumed that was the original stock.I can't remember where with all the literature I have at the moment.
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