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Ma and I took a little touring today along the Mississippi River and along the way we stopped at several shops for her so when I found a pawn shop I said we were stopping for me. Lo and behold that place had a bunch of front loaders there. Many were inlines, but there were six sidelocks, one of which was a T/C flinter in a Hawken. There was also a Renegade there and I almost started to dance. Almost. The dance fairly stopped when I took a peek at the barrel's end and saw a wall of rust. This was a single trigger Renegade which didn't really bother me but that rust made me sick and then the critter was a .50 cal and I'm looking for a .54. I run the rod down that rusty pit and it caught and skipped a couple times so even unloaded I wasn't going to spend the $350.00 they had it tagged. The stock looked like it had been scrubbed over a wire fence a couple times too.
There were a couple Encores of newer vintage on the rack and both of those were carrying price tags of $399.00 and both, of course, were rusty inside their bores as far down as the room's light let me see. The breeches were filthy.
Man, it just rips my knickers to see nice firearms like these in the conditions that these stores show them in. If I had guns for sale, be it a CVA Wolf or a Weatherby, the darned things would at least be cleaned and rust free. So......the search goes on.
There were a couple Encores of newer vintage on the rack and both of those were carrying price tags of $399.00 and both, of course, were rusty inside their bores as far down as the room's light let me see. The breeches were filthy.
Man, it just rips my knickers to see nice firearms like these in the conditions that these stores show them in. If I had guns for sale, be it a CVA Wolf or a Weatherby, the darned things would at least be cleaned and rust free. So......the search goes on.