:rotf:What's more telling is no one has any documentation to show the old gent wasn't honest. It's just a PPK he wore under his robes, for 30 years on the bench.

It is obviously a restock because of no oval on bottom of butt stock and the forend doesn't have mullered border. But it is a nice restock and a nice gun.

What's more telling is no one has any documentation to show the old gent wasn't honest. It's just a PPK he wore under his robes, for 30 years on the bench.

Ouch! As a judge, I don't think of myself as a "politician"....but I might also have a PPK laying around these old chambers for protection too. I think I would have liked to meet that honest old judge you knew.

I yearn for the old days, when an honest politician, once bought, would stay bought

Is the fore end barrel lug right for a beaver tail?

No it is not.