To me, 24-lpi is about the cutoff between something practical and something that is not. I think the checkering on Dicks Grade 5 is very elegant (especially with that pattern) and is befitting a gun of that age and grade. Unfortunately the fellow who did my checkering did so with 16-lpi, which is not bad until you see it next to an original.

Thanks again to all who posted.

JDG

Around the steel no tortured worm shall twine.