Following this reminds me of how much I like the individualized character that is found in collecting. What a wonderful quest to put these guns back together, and to take the time and expense to make it happen. Brian's work is extraordinary.
Mark, thanks for taking us along on this quest.
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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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