I am sure the Custom Shop was glad for the business and was more than happy to make the guns. Others may see the high grades as the height of the finest guns made by the Custom Shop but they are just too fancy for my taste. But if the man enjoyed them that is all that matters. His money and his vision, not ours of mine. Just hope they are not expecting me to bid on them. Not going to happen.
I know of two private collections of Brownings guns and Winchester model 70's that are both very extensive. Neither collector wishes to be know and they frankly do not care what I or anyone else thinks of their collections. They are both very happy with them and neither shoots more than a very few of them if at all anymore. The Browning collector had a long wall filled with .22 autos mostly a few grade III and what must have been almost 50 grade VI's. His favorite gun to shoot was a grade I that was a gift when he was a boy. It has shot a million bullets I bet. The other wall was filled with Superpose guns of all grades it seemed. The Model 70 collector has been to Africa several times using part of his collection but I understand no longer hunts or shoots due to declining health. Their collections will one day be sold or passed on to others and I just hope whom ever gets them has as much fun with them as they have had.
