[Old and Reliable]

I am sorry that your experience with Julia's was not what it should have been, IMO- and after reading your responses here. I also share your feelings, if I read you correctly, about Julia's "dropping the ball", as I have reason to believe they don't always pay a "finder's fee" for some of the items, and not just firearms, that find their way into their realm.

To try to be fair, in a basically unfair world, I would still have my doubts as to both the authenticity and the questions raised herein about the rightful ownership of "Bo Whoop" by Nash Buckingham's heirs- and I would have them if RIA or Amoskegg or any other well known gun auction house were handling this auction item. I have no real "axe to grind" personally with Julia's, but I am a bit like the late Robert Ruark, ie: Your Most Observant Servant- with the operating word being OBSERVANT-- I know you from PGCA and also meeting and shooting clays with you at Lapeer last April, I don't know Mr. Julia at all, Wes Dillon a little bit (from Cabela's) so based on your dealing on the DHE 16, I would tend to avoid any purchase from Julia's. IMO, and I was educated into the area of fair and honest gun dealings by Bill Jaqua, who had the universal policy, whether on a Purdey 20 bore or a Trojan 16 gauge- 3 day return for full refund No Questions Asked.

Call me an old fashioned guy, and you would be dead money right in that, but I still believe that is the only reputable way to sell firearms yet today and build a solid reputation for the long-run. Hope to see you at Lapeer in April, Paul Harm and his crew put on a first-class shoot!!