I would recommend a professional cleaning simply to remove crud and grime on both the wood and metal parts but NOT to erase the handling marks put on it by your ancestors - those scars and marks are part of the gun’s history and the stories it woul tell if it could.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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