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When new, they lined the walls of the farmer's supply & feed, or perhaps the local hardware store. Not much to speak of in the pride of ownership department way back when.
Displayed with the non-sporting axe and shovel of hard work - a gentlemen's gun not.
But!
It was the best the old sod could afford, and how he loved and cared for it.
Today, the white cotton glove/deep pockets crowd will show the gun around at the club telling of it's chase and minty-ness.
It's day has come, but perhaps not in the field again.
This farmer's tool, has gone up-towne and how sad it must be.

I don't think the farmers wife is going to use her burl bowl to slop the hogs from anymore either!
Jim

Lowell do you stay up all night thinking of this stuff? Just wondering.

I've been curious Lowell why this bothers you so much?

Sad? I would think he'd get a good laugh out of it at the very least.

Lowell, as Freud would say, "Tell me about your childhood".

A wet bird never flies at night.

All except the NID! They are still on the job and still doing the heavy lifting!!
Working the fields and looking with disgust at the once proud Parkers and Foxes and LC Smiths who are now in the house warm and cozy sipping tea by the fire afraid to come out!!!
Stored away for the big profit that awaits their owners!!!
But what's even worse is what is happening to Winchester's fearsome Model 12 with its sinister reputation derived from hard fought battlefields in numerous wars, even their owners are seeing the dollars signs and are hoarding them away for the future!!! How the mighty have fallen or should I say softened!!
All the best

I think the Funeral Gun post set him off...