I picked up two L. C. Smiths -- a 26 inch 1903 3E 16 gauge and a grade 4 12 with what I believe is an original skeleton steel buttplate. A Parker C grade 12 hammer gun and CHE 16, both with Bernard Steel barrels; a VHE 2 frame 30 inch, straight/splinter gun from 1912; a BH 12 straight/splinter from the 1890s; and a Quality U 12, also with straight/splinter and 30 inch barrels. Two Rook Rifles (one a Holland and Holland) rounded out the year. Working on fulfilling my promise to my wife to scale back the buying next year.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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