Hey, Calmex! Good to "see" you again, as it were, and know that you are well. When you get your digital camera, you oughta learn to take good close-ups -- my "secret" is take several hundered photos to get a coupla good ones! -- and then combine with the stories you have in this thread, the background of the gun, and publish an article on it.

It is a wonderful story, and a magnificent gun!