Hoof, funny you mention the Big Brown truck. I sent nine guns out today for loving repairs, I hope. I have several others that I need to pack up and get on the mend. Wood work I can deal with quite well but metal or mechanical work is something that I am no longer going to even think about. Time is too short to learn what I still don't know and I have too many guns left to repair before I am gone.
My new goal is to get all of my project guns into at least decent shooting condition before I am dead. To that end I am sending them out to have repairs completed. One too far gone will be left behind and perhaps parted out. When the first batch gets back I am either going to sell them or more likely give them away others to enjoy. My sons have more double guns than they need already and will pick over the gun room when I am gone. But if I can start others, other than my own sons, down the road of doubles by giving them a decent shooter perhaps these old guns will have use for fifty years after I am gone. That is a legacy that I like.
