Originally Posted by Bat Guano

Always wanted one when I was a kid in the 60s; the going price was, as I recall, around $29.95 and the Shotgun News was full of ads for them. I figured that I had forever to pick one up later on--so I bought other stuff instead.

By the time I figured I really, really ought to get one they were all in other peoples' sock drawers and hidden from the light of day. The few left out there were suddenly $1000 for a nice one.

Now I really didn't need one back then, and still really don't NEED one now, but you'd think that at least one widow would ask me to look at an "old gun" and it would turn out to be a shooter grade 1917.

Hope springs forever.