Dean, I never met Austin, but have read your many accounts of him (and some articles he wrote in old copies of PP). For what it’s worth, I’m sure he’d be pleased to know you’re caring for his gun and to some degree, his legacy.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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