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Paul, your Sterlingworth ejector is a country doctor's gun, and not your run-of-the-mill flea-market rural tool!
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Country doctors gun....yOu got a crystal ball you can look into.  When Gunbroker Ed is through everyone can have a pristine field grade.
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Got to love Lowell's threads they bring us all together whether in a state of confusion or otherwise at least were not at each other's throats!!! No....Wait.... Strick that last comment. I just read some of these other posts.....oh well!
All the best
Last edited by treblig1958; 09/26/07 09:46 AM.
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It's the Pavlovian barking LG is after. Woof! Actually, I think most of the ones Lowell sees belonged to the boys of the Kansas City machine. Probably easier to jump out of your Essex or Packard with a really short-barreled--er uh--Beesley.
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Field grades were never meant for the loft/condo/retirement villa dweller. No matter how well appointed the study, no matter the eighteen year old scotch. Gun condition can only be taken so far - and then one has to play-up into a gentlemen's gun.
A high condition tool - is still a tool.
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Jeez......Anyone these days that doesn't have a nice Sterlingworth or VH or such in their safe couldn't be considered a savy SxS man and probably wouldn't be very welcome to the club. You have to keep track of what is "IN"!
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The Sterlingworth, is the gun of the millennium - you'd be L7 without one.
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I kinda agree with Lowell, but from a different angle.
The cottage industry of "artisans" who strive to reinvent Winchester and Parker history is robbing these lines of much of their allure. Do I really want to spend a lifetime studying correct Parker configurations and finishes so I can still be taking a $30k risk? And as fast as I can learn what's "correct", the level of sophistication among refinishers continues to improve at an even faster pace.
My mentors, who could recognize real original configuration and condition, are dying off. I am amazed at some of the guns that get passed off as originals at prominent auctions, gun shows, and shops. And it's getting worse.
Nowadays, I'm alot more comfortable buying field grades and/or high grades with honest wear (yeah, I know what "distressing" means). The fact that this lowers the acquisition price is just a bonus. I can't understand the economics of some of the primped-to-NIB field grade post-war M12s I've seen; but I don't think the specialists in "distressing" have been mucking these guns.........yet.
Sorry for the rant.
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It goes well with DKNY overalls.
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One man's reworked Parker, is another's original.
Even the best get fooled from time to time.
If one is not going to give a Sherlockian effort on a real minty smallbore Vhe - it would better to pass on it.
After all, the business of reworking-up Parkers to new, is nothing new.
I wonder how many Parker buffs have gone the way of the ouija board?
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