Brian: You don't know how close to the truth you are! I recently had a second open heart surgery replacing an aortic valve and fixing two anurisms. As my chances weren't all that good it was decided to sell my entire collection keeping only some that were to go to my son and my 12 gage and 20 gage "Clays" guns. The surgery was obviously successful (March 27th), and I have since acquired a Syracuse Le Fever steel barrel ejector gun, a new Browning 625 Sporting 28 gage, and most recently the 10 gage Parker hammer gun, a Parker VHE 12 gage, and a Belgian Browning Superposed. It's a disease don't fight it, the only cure is another Parker. Lee.