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buzz, if you shoot enough with your reingraved gun to wear off the bulino bird, you are indeed a lucky guy. After all of the fine experiences causing that much wear, just have your engraver pick up the detail again. Then off to the wars a second time.

Buzz, did you go forward with replacing the duck with a grouse on your gun?

I'm coming back to this thread after getting my 16 ga. M-21 back from Ray Cover. Ray was among the engravers featured in his book that Roger Bleile particularly recommended in this thread. Roger's book led me to contact Ray and a few others to assess their interest in my modest project -- a remembrance of my best springer spaniel, who went suddenly blind of SARDS at age eight.

Ray worked from a few photos of Abby, along with grouse, pheasant and feather images I sent him. To say I'm pleased with his work is an understatement. This is the gun I usually carried when hunting over Abby. I've liked seeing her there when out with it this fall.

Mark Beasland polished the frame and re-rust blued the barrels. Art Isaacson blued the frame. I'll soon get the hinge pin screw alignment back to horizontal.

Forgive the amateur photo quality, I have only an inexpensive autofocus and not much clue of how to use it.

Jay

Gunflint- off the charts!

I am not a big Mod21 guy, but that is one Mod21 I would love to own. Elegant understatement as an art form. (Nice piece of walnut, too).

Hi Jay; Your Model 21 is beautiful. I'm sure you will treasure her for many years to come! In terms of my gun, no I did not have the duck removed. Finally came to the conclusion it would be a lot more trouble than what it's worth. I really like the grouse on the side panel of your 21. Your dog is very pretty too! Buzz

Thanks for the generous comments guys. My photo of the pheasant doesn't show it as well, Ray cut it with the same sharp detail as the grouse. The images draw the eye, but I'm really pleased with the depth and texture of the scroll and borders too.

Jay

Jay, I should have mentioned the pheasant too. It's nice too and I like the scroll engraving as well. Very tasteful. I'm guessing you are a grouse and pheasant hunter being from MN. I am a die hard grouse hunter myself, but go more for quail than pheasant. Unfortunately, in west Texas where I hunt we are entering our 4th bad year with very few birds. I'm very worried bobwhite quail hunting may be a thing of the past in the United States. I fear what has happened in the Midwest and deep south is heading west.....sure hope not, but I fear it is a real possibility. Only time will tell, I guess.

A fitting tribute for your Springer. I like the tailfeather on the lever.

Mark Beasland suggested a tailfeather on the toplever, said he'd seen and really liked a toplever with a grouse feather. I would never have thought of doing this, but liked the idea right off. I hunt pheasants much more than grouse, so for me it had to be pheasant.

Jay

Beautiful gun. The understated engraving is perfect. It must be a joy to carry in the field.