Sometimes I wished I was still under five foot tall, this gun would be great if I was. But the days of my using a 12 1/2" stock are well past and I hate the sight of two plus inch extensions. On top of that I suspect any extension that long will ruin the guns handling. But if you cold shoot a 14" gun a half inch extension ebony and a one inch leather covered pad might look very nice. Be a hell of a quail gun for those ten thousand dollar a day quail hunts.
I think this gun will far exceed the estimated bid range. This is an example of a low expected bid range that Holt's often uses to get more bidding. They post a expected bid that seems very low to get marginal bidders interested it trying to buy it. Hoping that in the end they have three or four or five very active bidders, mostly not on site. I think non sight bidders are more likely to over bid on a gun because they can not see any minor flaws and are buying mostly on faith of others viewing and evaluating the gun. Risky. Then the fight begins and when the dust settle two or more have run the final price up far beyond the posted estimated bid range. Been there and seen that.
We should get a pool going to guess the final winning bid price. The results could all go to this board. One thing for sure is that I wont be a bidder running up the price. I am too large for the gun and have no hopes of going backwards in size or age.
