This isn't over yet Mr. Anderson.....How about willing it to me?....:whistle:

So lets see if I have this correct. I don't want to sell the gun so your willing to to wait untill I become Vulture food to get it?:rolleyes:

When I'm dead you want the 28 and another "friend" wants the GHE 16 damascuss. Well what the Hell are friends for anyway:rotf:

Exactly.....See what good buddies ya got......:biglaugh:

I hate to tell you this but your not Charlton Heston so you can't pry it from my cold dead hands........good try though:rotf:

Cigars-- now we are getting serious
 

I had some nice communication with Morris Baker just before the Yooper- we had never met, but he was planning to attend and bestow a few fine Havanas to his many friends. Alex and Jill were there, and explained that some family concerns kept him back in PA this time--I was hoping to see the 20 VH that was once the pet grouse gun of the late Burton L. Spiller- I am sure that it is in good hands with our friend Morris, and that he will use it and treasure it as well.

Did get a chance to meet Morris' friend and grouse guide from MN- he had a fine collection of German doubles, rifles and drillings as well, and told me some stories about his job with the MN DNR in killing rogue black bears and feral wolves--he just had the look of a man who had spent most of his life in some really tough country and had come out on top- sorta like the lines from the late poet Robert W. Service: "Oh, I have clinched and closed with the naked North, I've learned to defy and defend- shoulder to shoulder we have fought it out, but the North must win in the end"!!:cool:

For Fred Lowe and other interested parties re: the Cabela's VH 28 ga. that was the gun of interest in starting this thread...

I dropped into Cabela's in Scarborough, ME on Friday evening specifically to examine this gun and as I walked into the Gun Library I spied Scott, Bill and Pete making a deal on a trap gun. We chatted a bit and then I took out the VH 28 and found it to be nothing more than a restocked and refinished gun, probably redone a while back. It is made on a 00-frame, has 26" barrels and extractors and in my opinion a buttplate introduced a bit later than this gun was made, i.e., no spur. It is a decent gun but the price Cabela's is asking is ionospheric in my opinion.

Dean,Would you care to describe....ionospheric? Is that really a word?

If someone is in the mkt for a nice 28 (NO Dave S not min:pe) Chuck Brunner at Greens guns has a VHE and I believe there is a nice VH at CSM. Both are very nice and a lot less $$$ than the Cabelas gun.

Dave, ionospheric is so high it is impossible for humans to find sustainable oxygen.

Thank You for the education Mr. Romig......:bowdown: