I'll never forget my buddy Kenny Clements face when he showed me the big fat ring bulge behind the choke in his Winchester Model 23 that was caused by steel. Or my high school friend Dale Dodd's Stevens 520 that had grooves deep as rifling in the barrel from early steel shells.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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