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I think I just have the two pictures of it, but maybe you can see all of the gun next month, Larry. Should be good.
I'm planning an early season hunt to southwestern North Dakota for fall 2010. Out near the Theodore Roosevelt Nat'l Grasslands, along the Cannonball River. Lots of birds, sharptails, huns, buttes, river valleys, and very little hunting pressure. I'm trying to plan an early season smallmouth bass fishing trip ( fly rod) into the Minnesota Boundary Waters for some buddies, a mid summer one to the same for a BSA trip, then late July on staff at the Nat'l BSA Jamboree in Virginia, then early fall to NoDak, mid fall to SoDak, early winter to KS. I'd like to bicycle across Kansas again but don't know how that will fit it. Then trying to work also. |
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12-15-2009, 03:55 PM
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Is the vent rib original to the gun or was it added later? Seems to me that Jack P has/had a DH 12 with Damascuss bbls and rib but that the rib was added later. I'm not sure on the production dates of the vent rib in comparison with the mfg dates of Bernard/Damascuss bbls. All my vent rib guns are fluid steel.
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12-15-2009, 04:06 PM
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Parker factory redone. SN under rib, reinforced forend lug, correct forend iron, etc. Rib is damascus.
There are a few damascus guns that have later factory added vent ribs. The Puglisi gun and this one are some of them. Vent ribs were what, about 1918 or so, and most damascus and all Bernard guns predated that and some were sent back to get "new, improved". Of course my preference remains splinter forend, double triggers, standard rib, straight or PG stock and skeleton butt but these options and add ons are interesting and desireable from a collector's view. Last edited by Bruce Day; 12-15-2009 at 04:27 PM.. |
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12-16-2009, 12:39 AM
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Bruce: "Trying to work" summarizes it well. With all the important things there are to do, I can't for the life of me figure out how anyone has time to work... for me the current hinderances to work are guns to fix, guns to evaluate, guns to clean, snow to plow, wood to haul, wood to split, wood stove to tend to, plane to fly back up onto the hill.... you name it and it's in the way of working.
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12-16-2009, 05:56 AM
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I hold that working gets in the way of living.
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12-16-2009, 07:39 AM
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Work always seemed to get in the way of hunting, competition shooting, gun shows, and a few other neccesities of life. However, I have found that the absolutely number one advantage of retirement (after having more time with my wife) is spending about 24 hours a day with bird dogs. I guess working at home would be almost as good.
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In "The English Gentleman" by Douglas Sutherland "If one must resort to employment, it is to keep himself in cartridges and whisky".
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To paraphrase the WCTU, "work is the curse of the drinking class".
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