Bill, it seems like some circumstantial evidence is there but nothing you could take to court. Annie does have an unengraved gold-colored oval inlayed in the stock, and there's an oval showing on Dick's. Dick's has what appears to me to be a Hawkins pad; Annie has a plexi spacer under a more recent pad which could be evidence of the stock having been shortened at some point. But I've exhausted all the directions I know to go; nobody I've found seems to know anything about my gun, nor what ever happened to Dick's.
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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. - Mark Twain.
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