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...and I'm still licking my wounds over that double teaming you and Maloney gave me - I'm just now taking on solid baby food.
Funny how that "old status elite" gag, still brings the house down.
Good show, you two!

If a single shot is 50% of the gun a double is, then it was a far better value to the salt of the earth set-go to any old farm auction in rural MN, and you will see what I mean.

The Sterlingworth was nothing in the world more than a reaction to the JM Browning repeaters of various types that, in the end, put the kabosh on market hunting, and, the American double as we knew it. Fox showed up (along with others) at a five or six round gunfight with two rounds. They lost. Bigger is better, if you live here in the new world-ask a truck dealer.
The Fox, Parkers, NIDs, low grade and high, were classy then, but, the inhabitants of that era saw it not. Most couldn't wait to send Grandpa's double down the road, or, give to the kid, and hoist a spanking new A5. Loaded with baby magnums, but of course.
Thats the way it was. In a lot of people's minds, that's the way it still is, too.

Thorny, truly, it is but a tool. Idolatry doesn't compliment the harvest, or, the meal.
Best,
Ted

2-piper, I know - I know, you'd rather take a Lefever H grade over a smallbore Boss!
Your getting very predicable.

So Ted, should I forego feast of St. Sterlingworth - is that what your saying?

It's the indian and not the arrow, and all that rot-what you should do, is go hunting, and then, put the gun away and cook a sumptuous meal of the harvest.
The smell of frying walnut flour dusted pheasant, with new potatoes, and pearl onions in cream sauce, with a nice lager, will make you forget all about what grade of gun made it happen...
Best,
Ted

One more time and I shall not chew this cabbage again. Take a look at the SW illustrated ads in MacI's Fox book, LG. All wearing work-a-day suitntie and an unblocked Stetson, like George Raft on a good day. Probably drove the interurban trolleys on the Main Line. I agree with Ted about farmers; I agree with Ted about farmers; I agree with Ted about farmers. I like farmers; all my people were farmers. Farmers who farmed at least knew who they were, where they were, and whether they could afford barrel redundancy for show; not always so the laterally-mobile working class. I prefer your terran or is it Taran theme; self-congratulatory it may be but better than this Dress for the Gun obsession.

jack

Ted, I'm kinda glad this site isn't for the Indian in us, we'd all be posting our glamour shots instead of our guns.
Yuck!
Better to see the bows, than the Indians - don't you think?
...and Rabbit, didn't you go through a wasitcoat period with your new Brummie?

Darn, you caught me! Lotta waxing too but waxing your Davies doesn't quite touch on two things at once.

jack

I thought the Sterly was suited for a king...... a frugal king and one that saved his treasure for war.

Rabbit, can't be techno all the time, you gotta spice it up with the all the trappings you can.