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"Excuse me old chap, dashed awkward you know... but there seems to be a pig on your rifle..."Mr. Hurst just sent pictures of the finished engraving on the Wesson rifle. I think it will do... Glenn   
There is no sacrifice too great for someone else to make.
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There's something about that left tusk...
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As always, beautiful. Make sure that you post some pictures when done of completed job.
The Meerkats seem to becoming popular.
Last edited by JDW; 08/31/08 12:24 PM.
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Is this the first ever "African" Wesson? I associate that action with rifles used for target work--were there hunting versions? Apparently there are now, or are about to be! I love single shots, from Favorites to these luxury custom jobs! Keep 'em coming!
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Gee, that's lovely. I would not mind owning SS in say 9,5R Holland. 
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There's something about that left tusk... Yeah, the base of the left tusk doesn't match the base of the right.
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Tusk rarely do in nature.Most are right or left handed much like Tembo. Rooting done from the same side day in and out.Love to read the old stories of pig sticking in Africa.The gun would be welcome at my house anyday.
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Don't worry about this fine work. Don't you know only Allah turns out perfect work?
PS. I prayed to Allah to turn Gustav NW, so I would pack those Winchesters and inflate that rubber dinghy if I were you.
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I love it- hope to hunt feral pigs in TX (San Antonio area)-what caliber is your Wesson? Hemingway wrote of shooting a marauding baboon in "True At First Light"-and a "tune up" on jackals might be like a good woodchuck or prairie dawg "dust up session"- I like better Ruark's account of when his Africa pal Harry Selby was hired to kill marauding crocs that were preying on the natives in the rivers-he used a .243 Win. varmint rifle-found the only sure way to kill a croc was a shot in the eye-then the brain was blown out- so he sat up on a high embankment with a spotting scope and his M70 .243 and lent his "Assistance from a Distance"_ Great job of engraving, that pig looks like its ready to leap from the steel and do some real damage to whatever gets in its way--RWTF
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Tusk rarely do in nature.Most are right or left handed much like Tembo. Rooting done from the same side day in and out.Love to read the old stories of pig sticking in Africa.The gun would be welcome at my house anyday. Will, You are correct.   Pete
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