Everyone on the no-restoration side seems to ignore that the gun was not safe to shoot without stock work that would automatically nix the "originality.

I could have switched the stock and represented it as an original, but that would be cheating.

Given that the stock needed to be repaired or replaced, redoing the metal to make it a complete package made a lot of sense.

Does anyone think I should have relegated this exquisite example of American gunmaking to a wall hanger?

Lou

Lou

Last edited by Bushmaster; 05/27/09 06:32 PM.