Mike,
In looking at the trap shooters depicted in your last Elsie's engraving, they appear to be in vertically striped uniforms. You suppose they were on a prison shooting team?? wink
We all (well, some of us) have guns with warts. Why not? We owners could probably use some repair as well. Here's my favorite gun wart collection. It's on the scalloped stock of a Turner Light 12 made between 1875-87. There are at least 5 shot holes in the stock, some repaired with lead putty. I had Mark Larson repair a non-structural gouge near the fences, but wanted the shot holes unrepaired and visible, sorta like a Prussian fencer's cheek scar. If the gun could talk, I'd love to hear the story behind that shooting. Gil