Yes, and Ted showed me the gun that had just been completed. It had a gold inlaid presidential seal on the trigger plate. I think the honorable President could not keep it due to some law regarding gifts. It was a nicely appointed gun.
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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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