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Looks a nice early gun.

Shame you parted with that nice Savage but there are only so many guns you can shoot at the same time!

Ain't it the truth...

Lloyd, you’ve made your decision and it’s in line with what I would have recommended.

My thinking, and it’s what I try hard to follow, is that I need to love the gun first. And that is typically a combo of handling and appearance. Rarely does the maker’s name make much of a difference to me. A well made and beautiful gun doesn’t need a name to be a well made and beautiful gun.

These aren’t words of advice for collecting or making money. But when I follow it I’m sure happy with what’s in my safe.

+1

SRH

Well, Lloyd, Whittington, ‘22, seems to have lit the fire and now after what I confidently feel was a very enjoyable year of searching you’ve got your next play thing on the way. After taking a look, you’re in for great fun. Congratulations.

Thankyou Sir.

Yes, it been a long and tortuous road to get here. Not quite fire & floods (but darn close). I can already visualize the first game trail I'll be carrying it on, coming into that first "hot" corner with the gun up, the hammers fully-cocked and ready to go. The slanting sun will be shining, the leaves will be falling, and the pungent smell of autumn in the north woods will be filling my nose, and I'll be searching keenly, listening for that furtive "putt, putt" of an alarmed grouse before it launches...

When I was younger, I remember having much different fantasies....oh well, this will have to do for now.

Lloyd- what is the meaning of "steam punk" as you used it in your thread. Enjoy the new smokepole, Kirby Hoyt is the ONLY dealer I would trust. RWTF

Foxy: I first heard the expression used a year or two ago (it helps to have a teenager in the house). Loosely defined, it's another form of counter-culture behavior I suspect, with a focus on the elaborate (& sometimes odd) Victorian-era engineering of things used in the steam-driven society of that time (steam trains & boats, steam-driven manufacturing, etc.). The kids that practice it are focused on older (or very old) artifacts that have otherwise been discarded by modern society as being obsolete, but that were well-made then and that are still very-functional now. I suspect that it's a behavior that is mostly driven by economics (& a need to own something tangible), but there is an "art" to it as well. It's a blend of campy and cool I suppose. It's old typewriters, chemical cameras, mechanical watches, fountain pens, spats and cigarette-holders, all combined with bathtub gin and absinthe. I don't entirely understand parts of it, but some of it is fun (& mostly harmless).

Think "Art Deco" or "Biedermeier" furniture, acetylene miner's lamps and bamboo fly rods, or the "Deus ex Machina" (translated loosely into "God from the Machine") of really old motorcycles with stick (or "suicide") gear-shifters, or even mechanical brakes and standard transmissions in cars instead of modern automatic transmissions (or now, even "self-parking cars"). That's almost "Steam Punk" to me.

Circa 1866. The side-opening system is Lang's Patent No. 46. I've never seen another like it.



Not bad for 157 years old. Love those fences...



And here's the best part...cocking those non-rebounding hammers from half-cock is a piece of cake.

Can’t see photos Lloyd, can you try re-posting them?