If only they could talk and re tell the places they have been and the birds or in the case of a classic rifle the big game they have taken. Some would have traveled the world some would have remained in the area of the caretaker and some would have been destined to be safe queens.
Several years ago I did a PP article on the fictitious travels of a CHE 20. It did get shipped back to Parker from either China or the West Indies I don't remember exactly for a new stock and returned to that far off destination. The fact that it was shipped and returned without miss hap is amazing in itself.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter...Earnest Hemingway
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