?what is with this barrel rib extension?

[Tom Flanigan]

Geez Dean, you are right. Those are flying birds on the trigger guard. I don’t know why I remembered them as a woodcock. It just shows that a memory can be faulty. But there is no doubt it is my gun even though I didn’t see a picture of the elk that Kevin liked so much.

The stock is just as I remembered it and especially the dents in the shield. I took a close look at the re-done checkering and saw the uneven depth on some of the diamonds. I remember exactly where they were and the pictures line up with my memory. They really annoyed me and I had planned to fix that along with the checkering on the butt. The restoration job was semi-professional at best.

If I manage to get the gun back, I’ll fix the checkering sloppiness and send the barrels to Brain. We’ll see.

Maybe Kevin would have liked the gun better if the elk was on the trigger and the birds were on the floor plate. We’ll never know.