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Unread 03-31-2020, 08:14 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by Stan Hillis View Post
Many years go I saw a $500 gun for sale online at McDonald's Gunshop in Australia. I called and struck a deal on the I. Hollis SLNE. He verified it as pre-1898 and sent it to me USPS. When it arrived in a flimsy cardboard box I opened the box to find that the gun was wrapped in several layers of newspaper, with a little more stuffed in around it. Not a scratch on the beautiful English walnut, or the metal. He hadn't even insured it.

Sometimes you just get lucky.

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You should have played the Lotto that day !
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