The only experience I've had with Drake was...
So let me get this straight: We start with someone who doesn't have a clue about a well-known long-time fine-arms dealer to whom he may (or may not) intend to consign a non-described but seemingly valuable gun...to which someone chimes in that he once consigned a gun, but asked that it be returned, which it was (thus incurring expense)...and still another reports hearsay about a "guy buying a gun" at SCI that may or may not bear any relation to anything...while two others are satisfied with the subject's "first class" efforts when they bought typically expensive guns, but also had the first person's same experience (guns on consignment returned unsold?). Oh! yeah. Then there's an allusion to "De-Wings" and Ivory Beads. So how do we score this?
If Dr.Lewis Drake had bought and sold only about a half-dozen guns in the past 15 years that I recall his ads in the DGJ and SSM, and seeing him big as life at top gun shows (gruff and distracted), then a sampling (such as this) of Internet junkies might be instructive. But when you consider how many guns he has had to buy and sell over many years at his level of the fine gun business to keep-on keeping on, and the relative wealth of his clientele, and how fickle people with real money can be...well, methinks that anyone who acts (one way or the other) upon information gleaned from an Internet thread such as this should call me--if and when he gets that valuable gun sold--as I have a bridge for sale somewhere in NYC. EDM
