Good point Greg, and I would agree with you. Ballard has sort of priced themselves out of the market - or at least my market.

I don't understand some of the other choices I have seen that folks are trying to recreat. The Peabody Martini being one and another falling block whose name I forget being another -looked like a cross between a highwall and a stevens but only the bad genes got expressed.

Anyway, I have seen one of Steve Earl's new models at Raton this past summer and it, like the side hammer Wesson is drop dead gorgeous. I'm sure that whatever he chooses to make will be superb, but I'd just choose different models myself.

Brent

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