Amazing the number of guns from that era that have Dogs on the bottom backed by a fence.

Joe, I'm a little late with my information, but if you put shells in the barrels, the pin centers are easier to measure.

That DD stamp indicates “Finest Damascus Steel” and are most likely of 5-iron crolle.





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Almost 11 years between posts! Is that a record?

They say, when we get to a certain age, time is only a concept. Bill is that age.

And that's why as we age time seems to fly by.

Time doesn't "seem" to fly by, it does fly by, and at an increasing rate. Proof of this, is that we are only able to do half as much in a day, as we used to.