re: Front sight
This 1901 VH had an unsightly Ithaca “Glow Worm” front sight, it was loose too. On the way home from shooting some trap I stopped in to see my “Smith”. I told him he could have the sight, but please put on a small gold bead. He disappeared and came back with a plastic box with dividers, all sizes, gold and silver beads. Probably a Brownell’s assortment pack. Told me to take my pick. Five minutes later he handed me my shotgun. Asked him what he wanted and he just said “Have a nice day”.
Well granted, it’s not an original Parker mushroom bead but that’s okay and it’s not orange.
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Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell and the profit and loss.
A current under sea picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell he passed the stages of his age and youth entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
T.S. Eliot
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