W/O BS these are reasons given in random order why I bought my first American classic:

found it on my birthday (some things are meant to be)
Lowell Glenthorne
Michael McIntosh publications: The Gun Review, Ansley H. Fox-The Man, The Legacy in Second to None....

mechanically new (no CC wear on knuckle, action face, ...) 6.5lb 12br with well-timed ejectors
AH Fox site with possibilty of getting letter from Mr. Callahan
it was made before my parents were born when grandpops was a young man
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